Discussions on wand lore
26th of February 2022
Ultimate Dumbledore FanHow would a Kraken Heartstring wand core work? I was thinking that it would be perpetually hungry for magic and amazing for Dark Water magic, but what does someone else think?
Ultimate Dumbledore FanAnd could you use bone as a replacement for wood?
Or just ivory?
4th of March 2022
Thifa refuses to be any Heir My HC is like, only European and American Wizarding community relies so heavily on wands
Because Asian lore certainly didn't have many things that used things like wands
Especially Japan, which is where one of the official 'largest schools', Mahoutokoro, is located at
Thifa refuses to be any Heir wand made by Sakura wood?
Is there any wands made by Maple wood?
Maybe Wizarding Canada made their wands from that
16th of March 2022
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EhoW I just remembered that there's at least one wand wood that you can't do silent spells with (dogwood). What the fuck are students in sixth year supposed to do then? Does Ollivander tell the kids they have no hopes of a defense NEWT because they're going to fail sixth year?
18th of March 2022
Stars Black Market Wandmakers should absolutely exist
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW —The only real source we have for all this wandlore is Ollivander. One source is only marginally better than no source at all. He has managed to find the best materials for cores all on his own? Seemingly the only person to do so? And presumably also the only popular wandmaker in Britain? Hella sus
Artemisdefinitely
yes no i think there are more british wandmakers
or olivander has assistants
solstice {poison master}There must be some in knockturn for less well to do people perhaps
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoWAlso he talks about peoples wand details in front of other people which is not good
I Live In Seven CloudsNot really considering the size of wizarding world
Theodore Z DiAngelo Also hella sus that the phoenix that gave two feathers belongs to dumbles......
17th of April 2022
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW Ollivander is a pretentious, arrogant twat if you ask me
knife gremlin Heir of HoS and a f*ing drama queen
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW Randomly yelling out your wand info in front of who ever
Bad mouthing every wand maker that isn't him
"You-know-who did great things." -notices who he's talking to ...."terrible, yes, but great" Bro
Nair i wonder if he even plans for a disciple
or if he's gonna let die the olivander shop with him
little blue paperweight he was secretly a pureblood supremist and wanted harry death. one way to do that is to unsettle the poor boy so much he doesnt even try to fight back /j
Nair what with wandmakers being paranoid bastards
wouldn't he have played better with voldyshorts?
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW He's got an heiress chilling around out of sight and she's just desperately waiting for her old man to kick it already so she can resurrect some of the cores he doesn't use because he needs to make himself feel the most specialistist wandmaker
Just to clarify in case anyone gets confused, that's my headcanon
And should I ever manage to write a fic, that heiress would be me
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW Yay my first customer
Also there's no way that Ollivander just has a perfect match for everyone unless he's psychic
That's an absolute bullshit claim
knife gremlin Heir of HoSwell he isn't the only wand maker
only the best
allhailthewatcher Or unless wands are a lot more flexible that we think
knife gremlin Heir of HoSaccording to hagrid...
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW So either he's psychic and pretending to go through wands for the drama or he's lying to make his work easier
knife gremlin Heir of HoS and him...
allhailthewatcher And they’re compatible with more than one wizard
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW Yea he's not, but he claims to have a match for everyone
Nair i bet is something like a compatibility scale?
knife gremlin Heir of HoS like i said probably the drama thingy... fing drama queen
Nair the wands vibe better or not
knife gremlin Heir of HoS as if...
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW I think canon supports that claim most of all
allhailthewatcher I mean the “wand chooses the wizard thing” maybe there isn’t just one wand per wizard
Nair and if you find one that vibes enough for you
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW More reason to have at least two backup wands
allhailthewatcher You just wander around until one likes you
mokha groot wands
if you made a wand out of groot, would it be sentient
Nair i mean the semi-sentient thing is supported by canon so
knife gremlin Heir of HoSthen i could use ANY wand
little blue paperweight true. my head cannon for stuff like that not happening, or not being seen in cannon, is that magic is actually pretty heavily regulated. mostly by the ministry. thats why its stagnated so much and the Weasley twins are so incredible.
Nairto control a magic population you need to limit the magic, or something like that?
sounds about right
allhailthewatcher It stands to reason that there would be wand whisperers like there are cat people
mokha oooo
I wanna see that happen now
mokha imagine the last thing you hear is "I am groot"
knife gremlin Heir of HoS a wand whisperer? lol... that is such a good idea actually
Nair isn't that what a wandmaker is???
mokha flex
allhailthewatcher But like a wizard that all wands like
Nair uh. that feel right with my memories
knife gremlin Heir of HoS nope they just shove a magical core in a stick
Nair a wonderful image of ollivander wands firing fire when he tries to grab them for a client bc they don't like him
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW The harrypotter.fandom wiki messes me up with its constant past tense. "A wandmaker was [...] an important occupation [...]. The practise of making a wand was known as wandcraft. Excuse me, did the magical world blow up or what?
little blue paperweight it wouldnt surprise me if it had a few times
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW Okay I checked and there is one confirmed other wandmaker in Diagon and the article says nothing but "he's presumably inferior bc most wixen children get their wands at Ollivanders" How much do y'all wanna bet he's just muggleborn or the first one in his family to be a wandmaker and his wands are perfectly fine, just lacking the dramatic presentation and sacred 28 name
slight topic change lol
little blue paperweight i wanna bet my none existenting vault
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW So mote
Should I win, I will be in possession of your rights to open vaults at Gringotts
little blue paperweight gggggg
uhm
can i go back?
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW You could always store your stuff somewhere else
Gringotts doesn't do shit for you
Slap your stuff with a fidelius and be done with it
allhailthewatcher This is why we talk terms before we swear a binding oath lmao
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW Precisely lol
little blue paperweight i would but i am not the best at transmigration....
help you are a sliytherin get me out of this
Pumpkin pie ramen || little sis Hey i need a favor
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW You need to associate with more Slytherins
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW I'll be your alibi, what's going on
Pumpkin pie ramen || little sis I need someone to go the #spand send the !k with the link i sent
allhailthewatcher Pay someone else to do it. Or runeward it, there are other wards than the fidelius
little blue paperweight you do
Pumpkin pie ramen || little sis The bot hates mes
little blue paperweight oh runes im am acceptable at. now only to find the right books and then i will be golden
allhailthewatcher Or you could work with a foreign bank
little blue paperweight thats a good one
now what do i owe you
allhailthewatcher Favor now favor later?
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW Are you in the family chat? Being part of the family makes debts a lot less dangerous
allhailthewatcher Alternatively, @little blue paperweight, I could adopt you in the family chat if I still have an identity there. I certainly have no flashy title but it's safer than trying to secure an heirship
little blue paperweight would love to!
allhailthewatcher Lovely
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW Back to wands, I still say that the uniform shape is boring
It'd be fair enough if they were made from metal or something, bit wood is a natural material. Where are the branch-like wands?
Closest we have is Bellatrix' wand, and that's more a claw than anything
little blue paperweight i would love a wand that is all curly like
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW Same and I refuse to believe that wand trees don't have branches like that
Which further cements my belief that Ollivander secretly sucks
And that he's just coasting by on his family name
little blue paperweight but wouldnt that mean older wixen have more diverse wands?
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW They definitely do. Wixen used to bring personally important material to serve as wand cores. Like Fleurs wand that has a hair ifnher grandmother as a core
Ollivander claimed those wands to be inferior
Sounds to me like he just wants to make more money with his special cores
little blue paperweight which are only tree in total
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW Exactly
little blue paperweighti much rather have something personally made than a almost mass produced one. on the other hand i would be afraid to lose it. so two wands it would be for me. the second more personal wand i would get on a special occasion
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW Oh yes absolutely
Depending on your definition of "special" you might want a third one for things the ministry doesn't like
little blue paperweight definitely.
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW You're gonna fit in just fine, I can already tell
bbgirl3191 (she/they) I think the Olivander Wands make more sense as a starter wand. A kid’s first wand. So of course he’s gonna mass produce the crap outta them. Do you know how many kids break their wands?
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW I like that idea
bbgirl3191 (she/they) and when you are older, and you know your own magic better, you can go to a specialty wandcrafter and get yourself a new wand
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoWNew head canon: they were always intended to be starter wands but then current Ollivander showed up and claimed his three fancy cores and special wand making made them perfect matches forever
And everyone just believed him because wixen are stupid
And don't believe in engineering and development
bbgirl3191 (she/they) They aren’t fancy or special, they are just more reliably sourced.
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW Yeah I'm going with his narrative
Since he won't shut up about how awesome he is and how awesome these cores are and how awesome he is for figuring out that they're the best
He's like an older and slightly less repulsive version of lockhart
bbgirl3191 (she/they) You gotta remember, the books are written from 11 y/o Harry’s perspective. He probably never went further down the Alley. They very well could be a better wand shop, and Hagrid just didn’t take him there.
Queen of the Cards, Lady of EHoW Blackwood is where it's at