![]() This is important, I think, because wands are not just weapons, but tools the witch or wizard uses to perform many different kinds of magic, for good as well as for evil. Wands are made of wood ’ this is a very warm and soft material to hold ’ unlike a gun or a knife, which are very hard and cold. The wand is the only device that is versatile and multi-purpose, and, it would seem, is essential for effective defensive magic if it is to be used in a focused and controlled way. 11 But these devices are used for convenience, and have one use only. There are other magical devices used in the Harry Potter stories, such as the ˜put-outer', a device which puts out street lights so that Wizards can go about their business unseen by Muggles, 10 or the Quick-Quotes Quill used by Rita Skeeter, a quill which writes by itself, freeing the interviewer to concentrate on the interviewee. Had he had his wand in his hand, and been allowed to practice magic with it, he probably would have chosen a different method of retaliation ’ perhaps one to silence her. ![]() 9 Although Harry feels she deserves this, it wasn't an intended effect, but rather happened because he had become so angry with her. In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Harry accidentally ˜blows up' aunt Marge: Aunt Marge makes insulting remarks about Harry's parents, and suddenly finds herself ˜swelling' until she drifts up into the air. You can do unfocused and uncontrolled magic without a wand (for instance when Harry blows up Aunt Marge) but to do really good spells¦you need a wand. ![]() However, the effects are not necessarily planned or focused. 7 These incidences seem to occur when the individual is scared or angry, when they have a very strong emotion. For example, when Harry makes the glass of a snake enclosure vanish when he is angry with his cousin Dudley, 6 or when Neville is accidentally dropped from a second storey window and rather than being hurt, bounces down the garden. There is evidence in the Harry Potter series that children are able to do magic before this. It would seem that children are taken to buy their first wands prior to going to magical school. 5 The significance of this will be examined later in the essay. We then learn that the phoenix who gave the tail feather gave only one other ’ and that made up the core of the wand of Lord Voldemort. Well, well, well ¦ how curious ¦how very curious ¦." 4 He cried "Oh Bravo! Yes indeed, oh, very good. Ollivander seems to be with the wand that has chosen Harry. The other interesting thing is just how impressed Mr. There are two interesting points I noted in this scene ’ firstly, that the sparks produced are red and gold¦ this may foreshadow that Harry will become a Gryffindor, whose colours are red and gold, or may be because the wand contains a feather from the tail of a phoenix, whose feathers are red and gold. He raised the wand above his head, brought it swishing down through the dusty air and a stream of red and gold sparks shot from the end like a firework, throwing dancing spots of light on the walls. Finally Harry is handed a wand made from holly and phoenix feather: Harry purchases his first wand from Ollivander's ’ "Makers of fine wands since 382 BC." 2 For this he has to be carefully measured, and tries out several wands, but nothing happens. ![]() Rowling's ideas about wands in the world of Harry Potter and will add some of my own. Ollivander 1Īh, wouldn't we all love a wand? Just a swish here and a flick there, and the washing up does itself, or the Traffic Warden about to place a ticket on your car is suddenly completely unable to remember what she was doing¦ In this essay, I will attempt to examine J.K. ".it's really the wand that chooses the wizard, of course." - Mr.
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