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A wand is made by a wandmaker who is learned in wandlore, the study of wands. Wands are hand-crafted from high-quality woods, or “wandwoods”, which are ca-pable of sustaining magic (e.g. holly, yew, ebony, vinewood, ma-hogany, cherry, oak, etc.). A core is then inserted into the middle of the wand from top to bottom. Common cores include phoenix tail feathers, unicorn tail hairs, and dragon heartstrings. Veela hair is also used, but less com-monly. In the Deathly Hallows, the Elder Wand is described as the only wand with a core made from the tail hair of a Thestral.[39] The only wand shop seen in the

books is Ollivanders. Garrick Ollivander is a wandmaker who has an eidetic memory concerning wands, as well as the ability to iden-tify the distinguishing features of a wand. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Ollivander is seen to evaluate two foreign wands: Viktor Krum’s, whose wand was crafted by Gregorovitch, was un-usually thick and had a dragon’s heartstring core; Fleur Delacour’s, created by an unknown wandmaker, was made of rosewood with a core of Veela hair. CREDIT www.wikipedia .org

s long as there have been Witches and Wizards, there have been magical wands. No part of Harry Pot-ter’s magical heri-

tage goes back further. The ancient Celtic Druids who lived in what is now called Scotland employed wands all the way back to 500 BC. As a matter of fact, “Druid” actu-ally means “man with the wisdom of the wood”.

In those old-en times, the Druids came to know a great deal about the magical qualities of each tree in their forests, many of the trees becoming sacred to them.

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For example, they came to believe that the ash tree is good for heal-ing, cedar is

the tree of life

which can em-bue you with energy, the strong elm tree can add power to a spell, and burning birch bark is a powerful love potion.

The Druids were also re-sponsible for the keep-ing of the Celtic Cal-endar. They created a system of classifications

for wood that is similar to horoscopes, a set of beliefs

which are almost as old as man himself. To a special group of 13

magical trees, they identified the period of days that affects the per-sonality and future of the person born during that period. This is the Celtic Tree Calendar:

A flying broomstick is not simply a “normal” broomstick pressed into service as a mode of transportation. The flying broomstick is a magical item with built-in charms. The ear-liest known evidence of a broomstick enchanted to fly dates to 962 A.D.; brooms are thought to have been cho-sen because they are easily trans-ported and concealed from Muggles (QA1). As time passed, they would also prove to be conducive to play-ing a number of sports.

Flying on a broomstick, particular-ly one which accelerates as quick-ly as the Firebolt, must necessarily involve some form of magic protec-tive field holding rider to broom and shielding against wind and iner-tial forces. Without this, it seems unlikely that anyone could hang on

when a Firebolt accelerates from zero to 150 mph in only ten seconds (PA4). It also seems likely that flying a broomstick doesn’t involve actually sitting on the handle, which would be uncomfort-able indeed. As a matter of fact, most illustra-tions we see in the books show the rider floating a little ways above the han-dle. The spell which creates this effect is called the Cush-ioning Charm, invented by El-liot Smethwyk in 1820 (QA9).

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