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Wands « Thread Started on Dec 28, 2007, 1:25am »
A wand is used to perform magical feats. Without it only limited magic is possible. A wand is usually made of wood and has a core of a magical object or substance. Such cores have been mentioned to include phoenix tail feathers, unicorn tail hairs, dragon heartstrings and veela hair. Wands with cores from the same source give strange effects (Priori Incantatem) when forced to fight each other, as is the case with Harry Potter's and Lord Voldemort's wands. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, it is revealed that each of their wands contains a tail feather from Fawkes, the phoenix belonging to Albus Dumbledore. The magical effects of the brother wands when used against each other later allowed Harry to successfully ward off Voldemort due to Priori Incantatem.
A wand is generally considered to be personal for a wizard. However, wands belonging to other wizards can be used to a comparatively less potent effect. In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry had to try out many wands before he found one that "chose him". It was an 11 inch, holly and phoenix feather wand. Mr. Ollivander only uses phoenix feathers, dragon heartstrings and unicorn hair as the cores of his wands. Therefore, Harry, Ron (unicorn hair and willow, 14 inches), and Hermione (dragon heartstring and vine-wood) unite all three Ollivander wand cores.
The only named wand shop is Ollivander's, owned by Ollivander - a master wand maker. This is where Hagrid takes Harry to buy his first wand. However, in the "Weighing of the Wands" chapter of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Ollivander is seen to evaluate two foreign wands: Viktor Krum's wand: a Gregorovitch creation, unusually thick; and Fleur Delacour's wand, whose core (a hair from her veela grandmother) he felt created "temperamental" wands, which is why he did not use it himself.
Wands are generally carried inside one's robes. However, they can also be put into other objects. For instance, Lucius Malfoy hiding his inside his cane while Moody seems to have his inside his walking staff in the Order of the Phoenix film. Harry also suspects that Hagrid has hidden the broken halves of his wand inside his umbrella, as he has used it to perform magic on many occasions, e.g. using the wand to perform Aguamenti when his cabin caught fire in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Wands are capable of changing masters. This is revealed in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. When a wizard or witch is defeated, or if their wand is forcibly taken from them in a fight (a form of defeat), the wand will change its allegiance to the one who defeated its previous master and work perfectly well with its new master. It is unclear if the wand will continue to work properly for its original master if it is returned (not taken back in a fight).
Elder Wand: Currently Owned by No One
This is an extremely powerful magic wand made of elder wood. It is the most powerful wand in existence wrongly said that it is unbeatable in a duel when used by its true master, although this is what it is known as. However Dumbledore defeated its true master, Grindelwald, causing people to believe it is in fact simply the most powerful-no more (as shown by Harry's reparo spell). It also appears that the wand is somewhat sentient, as are all wands, that it will not allow itself to cause real harm to its true Master. The wand's ownership, however, is a tricky matter. As stated by Mr. Ollivander, ownership can only be transferred properly. That is, the wand will only fully work for the new user if they disarm, stun, or kill the previous user. This can occur during a duel (although the Wand is very powerful, this scenario would be rare), or in non-magical ways (killing in Muggle fashion, etc).
After boasting of his unbeatable wand, Antioch Peverell met his end by being murdered in his sleep by a rival, wanting to claim the wand. Ever since, the wand has been sought by power-hungry wizards. Gregorovitch, another wand maker, boasted about how he possessed the elder wand. He faced competition from Ollivander and tried to reverse engineer its secrets because he felt it would boost his popularity. It subsequently fell to the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald, who stole it from the famed wandmaker. It is not known if Gregorovitch mastered its secrets properly but he did have a reputation in Europe. Since full control of it passed to Dumbledore when he defeated Grindelwald, presumably the Stunning Spell Grindelwald sent at Gregorovitch stunned him causing possession of the Wand to switch to Grindelwald. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Rowling never explicitly states whether or not Grindelwald became the master of the Elder Wand, because it was narrated that Grindelwald stole the wand from Gregorovitch, so theoretically Grindelwald was never the master of the wand. This scenario is more probable considering the fact that Dumbledore was known for having defeated Grindelwald in a duel, a feat theoretically impossible if Grindelwald were in fact the master of the Elder Wand. (Although it may also be that although the wand cannot be defeated, the wizard wielding it can still be defeated if they make a mistake) Albus Dumbledore later defeated Grindelwald and became the wand's master.
With Dumbledore's agreement with Severus Snape for his death (as revealed in the King's Cross chapter of Deathly Hallows) he meant Snape to "end up with the Elder Wand" (as Rowling wrote; it is not known the real intention of Dumbledore, however, as Harry tells Voldemort afterwards that Dumbledore's plans with Snape were supposed to bury the Wand's power with Dumbledore's death), however, as Draco Malfoy disarmed him, the plan failed and Draco became the wand's new master. After Dumbledore's death, the wand was placed inside the White Tomb. Voldemort opened it and claimed the wand as his own. Only later did he learn that he never mastered the wand because he did not gain ownership from its previous owner, whom he mistakenly believed was Snape, since he had been the one to kill Dumbledore, when in fact Draco Malfoy became the wand's master after he disarmed Dumbledore. By then, the wand's allegiance had been won by Harry when he disarmed Draco, even though Draco never had the Elder Wand itself in his possession.
Voldemort casts four Killing Curses on Harry, but each lacked the desired effect. The first Killing Curse's failure, according to Dumbledore, is due to Lily Potter's self-sacrifice to protect Harry, at which point Harry became the unintentional Horcrux. The second killing curse was counteracted by the wand cores of Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort, which did not battle properly. Instead, the master of the wand with the greater courage forced the other wand to regurgitate via Priori Incantatem the latest spells it performed. Voldemort's Yew wand would not kill its rightful master, but would not kill the holder of the twin wand, who also was blood to Voldemort due to Voldemort's use of Harry's blood to reform his body. It is strongly implied the Yew wand was totally confused as it not only dealt with a twin core, but also was asked to kill its master (due to the blood connection of Voldemort to Potter).
The Elder Wand did destroy Voldemort's soul fragment inside Harry with the third killing curse (Voldemort could not kill Harry, but he could certainly destroy that part of himself). The Killing Curse knocked Harry into a death-like state for a few moments, in which in his mind he was given a choice to "move on" to the afterlife or return to the living world, and he chose the latter. Voldemort's Cruciatus Curse, used on Harry when Voldemort thought he was dead, caused no pain to Harry, as the wand refused to harm its master. In the final battle, the Elder Wand recognises its true master, and when confronted with Harry's Expelliarmus charm, the Wand causes Voldemort's Killing Curse to rebound and kill him. Presumably, the reason that the Wand's loyalty didn't change to Voldemort when Harry was apparently killed by him is due to the fact that Harry wasn't defeated and he wasn't killed.
Harry uses the Elder Wand to repair his damaged holly and phoenix feather wand (an act that the great wandmaker Mr. Ollivander believed improbable according to what he knewhe mentions that wandlore is very ancient and complicated). Harry shows wisdom by accepting the Tale of the Three Brothers as a moral lesson, leaving the Resurrection Stone where it fell and the Elder Wand in Dumbledore's tomb, but keeping his Invisibility Cloak, and eventually passing it on to his children, presumably after living to a grand age until he was ready to embrace death as an old friend.
Harry intended to return the wand to Dumbledore's tomb at the end of Deathly Hallows and determined that if he died of a natural death, the power of the wand will die out with him. However, it is not made clear whether he eventually returned the wand.
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Re: Wands « Reply #2 on Dec 28, 2007, 1:34am »
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Wand Cores
Phoenix Feather Very Magical. Dragon Heartstring Hexes are a specialty of this core. Unicorn Tail Best for the pure of heart. Leprechaun Hair Somewhat temperamental to Non-Irish. Demiguise Hair Only the best for Transfiguration. Hippogriff Talon Excellent for Charm Work. Runespoor Fang Best for those who deal with Dark Magic. Hair from the Mane of a Kelpie Superb for all spells. Chimaera Scale Very rare, yet very powerful. Ashwinder Ash Casts the best protection charms.
Wand Wood Holly Ash Willow Maple Mahogany Birch Yew Rosewood Aspen Ebony Hazel Cedar Oak Poplar Redwood Hornbeam Hawthorn Chestnut Walnut
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