Ollivander's is a shop in the fictional Diagon Alley of the Harry Potter book series, which, according to its sign, has existed since 382 BC. Mr. Ollivander, the pale-eyed, white-haired shopkeeper, makes and sells magic wands to witches and wizards as they enter school or break their old wands. To determine the best wand for a witch or wizard, Mr. Ollivander measures various body parts and then checks the reactions of various wands to the buyer, a process he refers to as "the wand [choosing] the wizard".
Harry Potter tried a great many wands before he found one suited to his magical personality. Harry Potter's phoenix-feather holly wand, Hermione Granger's dragon-heartstring vine wood wand, and Ron Weasley's unicorn-hair ash wand unite all three Ollivander wand cores.[1]
Although Harry Potter has a symbolically heroic[2] holly wand and Lord Voldemort has a symbolically deadly yew wand, their wands have the same core: a feather each from Albus Dumbledore's phoenix, Fawkes. The magical effects of the twin cores later allowed Harry Potter to successfully ward off Voldemort in a graveyard.
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Last updated: 05-21-2005 18:29:30
