The Core of the Elder Wand and other new JKR explanations

[phoenixgod2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 179820


> Carol responds:
> 
> Does anyone besides me find this information less than helpful, even
> possibly annoying? It isn'e in the books (we don't even know that the
> wand *has* a core), and it seems to me that a number of people became
> the master of the Elder Wand by seizing it or killing the previous
> master without necessarily being capable of facing death. 

phoenixgod2000:

I took the explanation to mean that the material could only used as a 
core for wands by someone capable of mastering death, i.e. Olivander 
doesn't exactly have a line of Thestral hair wands he lets people try 
out.  

A note on manufacturing and not terms of use in other words.