Broken Wands (was Bella's wand )

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 183810

> 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.

Mike:
OK, you can be my copyeditor. ;-) I accept your amendment to my 
story. You see, this is why I loved reading this series, just to
tie into the thread asking what we liked about Harry Potter. 

JKR painted such a rich tableau of characters, that it doesn't take 
much of an imagination to put together all these little back-stories 
for our own amusements. The greatest thing she did was to give us the 
outline for many people, places and things, all facinatingly 
different from RL, but didn't smother us with her own fictional 
facts. This allowed us to use our own imaginations to fill in the 
blanks. Lots of blanks for a goofball like me to fill in. :D


> zanooda:
> 
> As for all these "measurements" - I don't see much sense in them.
> <snip>
> So what was the point of measuring the poor boy? Just
> to make the whole procedure look more "science-like" :-)?

Mike:
Sure you do. It was magic! It's all wandlore, not science, as Pippin 
pointed out. So that measuring tape wasn't taking your average, 
mundane measurements. For instance, once it found out that Harry's 
ears are more than three times as far apart as are his eyes, and that 
the length of his nose is evenly divisible into the length of his 
forearm, that meant that Harry couldn't possibly be compatible with 
any wood from the Fire thorn family. See?

It's all these little moments that go unexplained that make the story 
interesting and enriches the total package. JMHO of course, YMMV.

Mike, thanking zanooda for the editing; he will soon be sending her 
reams of similar vignettes for her to check for consistency with 
canon. JKR could've used her :))