What is your wand?

Cauliflower Mcguffins · (This post was last modified: 12-29-2021, 10:30 PM by Cauliflower Mcguffins.)

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Willow

Willow is an uncommon wand wood with healing power, and I have noted that the ideal owner for a willow wand often has some (usually unwarranted) insecurity, however well they may try and hide it. While many confident customers insist on trying a willow wand (attracted by their handsome appearance and well-founded reputation for enabling advanced, non-verbal magic) my willow wands have consistently selected those of greatest potential, rather than those who feel they have little to learn. It has always been a proverb in my family that he who has furthest to travel will go fastest with willow.

Phoenix feather

Phoenix feathers are capable of the greatest range of magic, though they may take longer than either unicorn or dragon cores to reveal this.
They show the most initiative, sometimes acting of their own accord, a quality that many witches and wizards dislike. Phoenix feather wands are always the pickiest when it comes to potential owners, for the creature from which they are taken is one of the most independent and detached in the world. These wands are the hardest to tame and to personalise, and their allegiance is usually hard won.

MooMoo · 12-29-2021, 11:53 PM

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Elm Wood
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The unfounded belief that only pure-bloods can produce magic from elm wands was undoubtedly started
by some elm wand owner seeking to prove his own blood credentials, for I have known perfect
matches of elm wands who are Muggle-borns. The truth is that elm wands prefer owners with presence,
magical dexterity and a certain native dignity. Of all wand woods, elm, in my experience, produces the fewest
accidents, the least foolish errors, and the most elegant charms and spells; these are sophisticated wands, capable of
highly advanced magic in the right hands (which, again, makes it highly desirable to those who espouse the pure-blood philosophy).

Dragon Heartstring
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As a rule, dragon heartstrings produce wands with the most power, and which are capable of the
most flamboyant spells. Dragon wands tend to learn more quickly than other types. While they
can change allegiance if won from their original master, they always bond strongly with the current owner.
The dragon wand tends to be easiest to turn to the Dark Arts, though it will not incline that way of its
own accord. It is also the most prone of the three cores to accidents, being somewhat temperamental.

**Chris Kim** · 12-30-2021, 12:03 AM

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Laurel Wood

It is said that a laurel wand cannot perform a dishonourable act, although in the quest for glory (a not uncommon goal for those best suited to these wands), I have known laurel wands perform powerful and sometimes lethal magic. Laurel wands are sometimes called fickle, but this is unfair. The laurel wand seems unable to tolerate laziness in a possessor, and it is in such conditions that it is most easily and willingly won away. Otherwise, it will cleave happily to its first match forever, and indeed has the unusual and engaging attribute of issuing a spontaneous lightning strike if another witch or wizard attempts to steal it.

Unicorn hair

Unicorn hair generally produces the most consistent magic, and is least subject to fluctuations and blockages. Wands with unicorn cores are generally the most difficult to turn to the Dark Arts. They are the most faithful of all wands, and usually remain strongly attached to their first owner, irrespective of whether he or she was an accomplished witch or wizard.
Minor disadvantages of unicorn hair are that they do not make the most powerful wands (although the wand wood may compensate) and that they are prone to melancholy if seriously mishandled, meaning that the hair may ‘die’ and need replacing.


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