Broken Wands (was Bella's wand )

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 183856

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> It seems absurd that Ollivander would have offered Harry a 
> seven-inch wand (perhaps suitable for one of the Creevey brothers).


zanooda:

Right, or maybe for someone like Flitwick :-)! It seems to me that
Ollivander offered Harry every single wand in the shop, because he
just loved the process so much :-).


> Carol wrote:

> a short wand might sense compatibility with a short 
> person--Umbridge's wand, IIRC, is short and stubby like her 
> fingers. Clearly, a sixteen-inch wand would feel more
> comfortable to Child!Hagrid, more proportionate to the length 
> of his arm


zanooda:

This is an interesting idea. I didn't have enough time to analyze the
 connection between the lengths of the wands and their owners' hight
:-), but I remember that another long wand in the book was
Bellatrix's, and she *was* tall. OTOH, Fleur was also described as
tall, but she had a really short wand, IIRC. 

Maybe the length of the wand depends not on the hight, but on the hand
size and on the length of the fingers. For example, LV seem to have
unnaturally long fingers, although I don't know if they were always
like this or they only became so long after he started loosing his
human appearance.