![]() Ron’s wand is broken when he and Harry crash the magical car into the Whomping Willow. In The Chamber of Secrets we see the danger of using a wand that doesn’t work properly.The same Phoenix gave two feathers, one for the wand that became Voldemort’s and one that became Harry’s. In The Sorcerer’s Stone, we learn that Harry’s wand and Voldemort’s wand are connected by the Phoenix feather in their cores.Wands have magical properties in and of themselves, but they are even more powerful when used by the right wizard. Ollivander tells Harry when he’s buying his wand, that “the wand chooses the wizard,” (SS, 82), and when Harry picks up the wand that will be his he “felt a sudden warmth in his fingers” (SS, 85). In Harry Potter wands are an essential tool of wizards and witches. Wands were typically made out of ash, elder, and rowan. There is actually archeological evidence of wands-wands have been discovered in the graves of women and men in Northern Europe and Great Britain. ![]() The Celtic Druids and the Norse Volvas carried wands. Imagine it like a power sprayer attachment for a hose-all of the water is concentrated in that little sprayer, and it makes the water come out so much more powerfully than when it travels through the big hose. Since all of the magical energy is directed to this one place (the wand), it becomes very powerful. The term “witch” and “wizard” became a derogatory word sometime during the middle ages, and it was during this time that many innocent people died because they were accused of “witchcraft.” Once again, as with the mythology, the Harry Potter books are part of a long line of tales about witches, wizards, and their witchcraft.Ī wand is a tool that directs the witch or wizard’s energy outward and a way to aim her energy and power. There were witches, or what people considered witches, in our world. At Hogwarts, the students have to study witches in the Muggle world.
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