Broken Wands (was Bella's wand )

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 183790

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mike" <mcrudele78 at ...> wrote:

> How's this one, can't you just picture it:
> Young but massive Hagrid comes sauntering into Ollivander's shop 
> with his little father in tow. Ollivander takes one look at the 
> half-giant kid and knows immediately that none of his stock wands 
> are going to work. So he takes Rubeus's measurements and tells 
> him he'll be making him a special wand and to please come back 
> in a week.
 
> Well, Ollivander can see right off that this wand is going to be 
> treated with some rough handling. He goes out and gets the strongest 
> piece of suitable oak that he can find, then magically strengthens 
> it even further, just like they magically strengthen the flying 
> brooms. He makes the wand so it will bend but not break.


zanooda:

I very much enjoyed your "Rubeus Hagrid and his first wand" story,
Mike. I can see that you have great imagination :-). It is a very
believable story, too, but I think that maybe Ollivander let Hagrid
choose his wand first (or rather, let the wand choose Hagrid :-)), and
only then he strengthened this wand. I'm not sure that it's a very
good idea to make a wand for someone "by order", without that
"choosing-of-the-wizard" procedure. 

I know that Ollivander made such "ordered" wands for Luna and
Pettigrew, but I'm sure that he just "remade" their original wands,
meaning that, for instance, Pettigrew's original wand was also
chestnut and dragon heartstring wand. The old and the new wands
wouldn't be identical, of course, the cores being from different
dragons, but at least Olly could be sure that the new wand was
compatible with the client (PP in this case).

I think that Hagrid needed to be chosen by a wand first, and then
Ollivander could strengthen this wand, or at least he could make
another,larger and tougher wand using the same materials as in the
chosen wand (oak and whatever the core was - Olly didn't say). 

As for all these "measurements" - I don't see much sense in them.
Ollivander took Harry's measurements, but look what wands he offered
him to try - there is nothing in common between them: beechwood and
dragon heartstring, maple and phoenix feather, ebony and unicorn hair,
and many more. So what was the point of measuring the poor boy? Just
to make the whole procedure look more "science-like" :-)?