Wand cores:

Dragon heartstring:

• Most power
• Quick learner
• Change allegiance easily
• Bond strongly with the owner
• Easiest turn to D.A.

Phoenix feather:

• Rare
• Greatest range of magic
• Act on their own
• Hard-won allegiance
• DADA

Unicorn hair:

• Subtle
• Charms and Transfiguration
• Healing
• Gentle and intellectual wielders
• Hard-won allegiance

Veela hair:

• Temperamental
• Boost in outdoor magic
• Mostly wielders with Veela blood
• Divination and Charms

Thestral tail hair:

• Unstable
• Extremely powerful
• Dueling
• Only utilized after witnessing death

Exotic wand cores:

Acromantula web:

• Illegal in Britain
• Dark magic, especially the Imperius curse.

Augurey (Irish phoenix) Tail Feather:

• Divination

Basilisk Skin:

• will almost always bond to a Parselmouth or budding Dark Wizard
• Dark arts

Billywig Stinger(s):

• Australia
• bond almost exclusively to light-hearted pranksters and are extremely capricious
• Hufflepuff or Gryffindor.

Boomslang Venom:

• jinxes and hexes
• Transfiguration

Chimera Scale Fragment:

• magically powerful, extremely rare
• Stubborn
• raw power, difficult to control

Demiguise Hair:

• multiple cores needed
• Transfiguration

Doxy Wing(s):

• unmanageable and mean-spirited.
• Dark Arts
• Slytherin

Erumpent Hide:

• extremely dangerous, and don’t take well to high levels of magic or sharp impacts.
• a ‘punch’ to spells when combined with a gentler core

Fairy Wing(s):

• Charms and seers
• Average in Defense Against the Dark Arts and Transfiguration
• will often fail at hexes

Fwooper Feather:

• Charms and Care of Magical Creatures
• Near-inability to cast Quietus
• Commonly combined with another feather core

Hippogriff Feather:

• Adaptable.
• Gryffindors
• Rare

Kelpie Hair(s):

• incredibly temperamental
• Transfiguration, when they don’t backfire spectacularly.

Vampire Fang:

• very rare and mostly heirloom wands.
• Either Dark or Light.
• Very loyal bond.
• Charms and Divination, exceptional for potion stirring.

Werewolf:

• whiskers, hair, saliva, and nails.
• The owner is courageous, brave, and loyal
• Extremely loyal
• Whiskers do well with Transfiguration.
• Hair does well with Charms.
• Saliva does well with Potions.
• Nails do well with Hexes, Jinxes and Curses.

Mermaid:

• heirloom cores
• Scales and hair are very strong magical conductors
• Very loyal and very temperamental
• outdoorsy elements and care of magical creatures.
• Scales do well with Transfiguration
• Hair does well with astronomy and potions

Troll whiskers:

• Considered as inferior
• Sir Cardogan might have had a wand like this

Wand woods:

A

Acacia:

• Tricky, refuse to produce magic for any but their owners
• Powerful but with temperament

Alder:

• The owner is helpful, considerate and most likable
• magnificent, loyal helpmate
• Non-verbal spells

Apple:

• Herbology, care of magical Creatures
• Rarely with powerful core

Ash:

• Dark Arts, Transfiguration, Divination

Aspen:

• Charms and dueling
• owners are generally strong-minded and determined

B

Beech:

• Wise beyond his/her ears, rich in understanding and experience

Birch:

• Light and Healing magic, Patronus charm

Blackthorn:

• Unusual wand wood
• Warrior, D.A.
• Loyal and faithful

Black Walnut:

• Light magic

Blue spruce:

• excels in everything except the Dark Arts.

C

Cedar:

• Docile
• Protective magic

Cherry:

• Happy, light

Chestnut:

• Transfiguration
• Not that good for Charms and DADA

Cypress:

• Associated with Hades
• Transfiguration and D.A.

D

Dogwood:

• Quirky and mischievous
• refuse to perform non-verbal spells and they are often rather noisy.

E

Ebony:

• Combative magic and Transfiguration
• Good with people who dare to be themselves
• Will not be swayed from their purposed

Elder:

• Powerful, dangerous

Elm:

• owners with presence, magical dexterity and a certain native dignity
• sophisticated wands, capable of highly advanced magic in the right hands

English oak:

• Loyal
• Owner strength, courage and fidelity
• magic of the natural world
• Merlin’s wand

F

Fir:

• ‘the survivor’s wand’
• Transfiguration
• Owner power and strength of purpose

H

Hawthorn:

• Healing magic and Curses
• their spells can, when badly handled, backfire

Hazel:

• Charms, Transfiguration, Divination
• Sensitive, owner needs to manage their feelings

Hemlock:

• Potions

Holly:

• Light
• DADA

Hornbeam:

• Loyal to their master
• Don’t perform magic that does not tally with their owner’s vision

I

Ivy:

• An uncommon wand wood
• Deceptively strong.

K

Kaya:

• Potions, Astronomy, Ancient Runes, and Arithmancy

L

Larch:

• Attractive and powerful

Laurel:

• Cannot perform dishonourable acts.
• Loyal but not with lazy people

M

Madrone:

• Transfiguration

Mahogany:

• Mahogany is a good all-around wood

Maple:

• The owners are by nature travelers and explorers
• Ambitious and achieving

O

Oak:

• DADA, Transfiguration
• Slow with new spells

P

Pear:

• warm-hearted,
• the generous and the wise

Pine:

• Divination
• Quick learning, but weak spells

Poplar:

• consistency, strength and uniform power

R

Red oak:

• dueling

Redwood:

• Fortunate wizards and witches
• To snatch advantage from catastrophe

Reed:

• delicate, and a difficult wand to work with.
• its wisdom and intelligence make it sought-after by some.
• A Ravenclaw wand wood.

Rosewood:

• will complement phoenix feathers, unicorn hair, Veela hair, and fairy wings nicely.

Rowan:

• Charms, Transfiguration, Dueling

S

Sequoia:

• Strong-willed
• In touch with nature

Silver lime:

• Seers and Legilimency

Spruce:

• Owner bold spell-caster with a good sense of humour
• Loyal
• capable of producing particularly flamboyant and dramatic effects.

Sycamore:

• owner is curious, vital and adventurous

V

Vine:

• less common
• can emit magical effects upon the mere entrance into their room of a suitable owner

W

Walnut:

• owner is intelligent

Willow:

• Charms and healing magic

Y

Yew:

• Dark magic and Transfiguration

Exotic wand wood:

African Ebony:

• Combative magic, charms if necessary

Bloodwood:

• Dueling and potions
• Wizards who perform D.A. as well as vampires

Gingko:

• Strong
• great staying power, and is good for calming temperamental cores.

Lacewood:

• Are associated with nobility.
• Not a good wand for spell casting or dueling as it is a very temperament wand.

Olive:

• Adapt quickly and are loyal
• They will only perform magic according to their owner’s principles.

Pink Ivory:

• Owners are warm-hearted, generous and soft-spoken.
• very strong spell-making.
• Light magic

Plum:

• Charms. Herbology, care of magical Creatures
• Rarely with powerful core

Purpleheart:

• Healing charms
• Backfire on those who aren’t strong enough
• The owner must be intelligent

Tulip Wood:

• The owner must be curious, vital and adventurous

Zebrawood:

• Rare
• The owner will protect everyone, even at the cost of themselves
• Protective and defensive spells

Flexibility:

Whippy

• Easiest to learn and cast, least powerful

Wishy

• Slightly harder to learn and cast, just slightly more powerful

Flexible

• Rare, harder to learn and cast, average power to under average power

Springy

• The most common, easy to learn and cast, average power

Sturdy

• Slightly less common, harder to learn and cast, and slightly more power

Inflexible

• Rare, hard to learn and cast, powerful but not too powerful

Rigid

• Hardest to learn and cast, most powerful

Delicate

• A special case. It takes special care to learn spells with this wand, but it is rarely extremely powerful. They tend to choose witches and wizards with somewhat frail personalities, and once a spell is learned, although it is not as strong, it is extremely reliable.

Feisty

• Neither stiff nor flexible, it has a mind of its own, often adding more to spells than the owner wants in amounts of power used.