What does surprisingly swishy wand mean?

Surprisingly swishy — A wand with this flexibility will either surprise its owner by being surprisingly loyal or surprisingly unloyal and is most often known for doing the unexpected. It is usually great for charm work.
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What does a whippy wand mean?

If your wand is described as whippy, then they learn spells the quickest, though they are generally less powerful than more rigid wands. Wands that are swishy take a little more effort to teach, and are therefore just a little more powerful.
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What are the different wand flexibilities?

Wand Flexibilities
  • Very flexible.
  • Quite Bendy.
  • Quite flexible.
  • Fairly bendy.
  • Pliant.
  • Supple.
  • Swishy.
  • Reasonably supple.
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What is the best wand flexibility?

Harry Potter Wizards Unite Best Wand Flexibility
  • Unyielding.
  • Quite Bendy.
  • Quite Flexible.
  • Reasonably Supple.
  • Slightly Yielding.
  • Slightly Springy.
  • Pliant.
  • Surprisingly Swishy.
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What is the rarest wand on Pottermore?

Elder. The rarest wand wood of all, and reputed to be deeply unlucky, the elder wand is trickier to master than any other. It contains powerful magic, but scorns to remain with any owner who is not the superior of his or her company; it takes a remarkable wizard to keep the elder wand for any length of time.
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What is Snape's wand core?

Ebony is a common wood used in wand-making for the films, including Percival Graves's wand from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. It is also one of the few "black" woods, and as Snape's wand is jet-black, I'm 99% sure it's ebony.
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What is the coolest looking Harry Potter wand?

The Elder Wand is the coolest wand in all of Harry Potter for many reasons. First and foremost, it is one of the three objects that make up the Deathly Hallows.
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What is the shortest wand in Harry Potter?

Professor Umbridge's wand is actually the smallest of all the wands we meet in the Wizarding World at just 10.5 inches… Warner Bros. Professor Snape's wand is 13.25 inches long.
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What is the rarest wand core?

Phoenix. This is the rarest core type. Phoenix feathers are capable of the greatest range of magic, though they may take longer than either unicorn or dragon cores to reveal this.
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What is unicorn hair core?

If your wand is unicorn hair, this core, according to Ollivander's notes, 'generally produces the most consistent magic, and is least subject to fluctuations and blockages. They are generally the most difficult to turn to the Dark Arts.
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What is the most powerful wand wood?

Most powerful wand woods?
  • Yew. It's owner is often notorious, extremely powerful and extremely rare.
  • Elder. Obviously.
  • Ceder. Owners of Ceder wands are said to be very hard to manipulate and apparently are "dangerous fed to those who challenge them thoughtlessly."
  • Rowan.
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Which is the best wand?

Harry Potter: The 15 Most Powerful Wands, Ranked
  • 8 Bellatrix Lestrange's Wand.
  • 7 Minerva McGonagall's Wand.
  • 6 Severus Snape's Wand.
  • 5 Voldemort's Wand.
  • 4 Harry Potter's Wand.
  • 3 Gellert Grindelwald's Wand.
  • 2 *2. Dumbledore's Wand.
  • 1 The Elder Wand.
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What are the strongest wands made of?

The Elder Wand, the most powerful wand ever created, is one of three objects that make up the Deathly Hallows, including the Cloak of Invisibility and the Resurrection Stone. The Elder Wand was 15 inches long, formed by Death himself, made of elder wood, and contained the center of the tail-hair of Thestral.
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What is the second most powerful wand?

Ranked: The Most Powerful Wands In Harry Potter
  1. 1 The Elder Wand.
  2. 2 Merlin's Wand. ...
  3. 3 Professor Dumbledore's Original Wand. ...
  4. 4 Lord Voldemort's Wand. ...
  5. 5 Harry Potter's Wand. ...
  6. 6 Bellatrix Lestrange's Wand. ...
  7. 7 Gellert Grindelwald's Wand. ...
  8. 8 Severus Snape's Wand. ...
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What is Sirius Black wand?

Sirius Black's wand was of an unknown wood, length, and core material. The wand has a distinctive handle, being squarish in shape. Symbols are etched upon it. Some of them look slightly similar to the ones tattooed on Sirius' body.
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What is the core of Hermione's wand?

Made with unique vine wood and a dragon heartstring core, Hermione's wand was acquired at Ollivanders shop in Diagon Alley.
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Can wands have 2 cores?

In some cases, wands may have two cores, called a "dual core", though usually the second core is drastically less powerful than the first core. The use of a second core is often to make up for what the first core lacks. Some cores cannot be blended or paired with another. Examples of this is veela hair.
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What is a phoenix feather?

Phoenix feathers were feathers shed by phoenixes, primarily gathered and used in wandmaking. Phoenix feather was one of the three supreme core types. It was one of the rarest cores, with the greatest power range and whose allegiance is hard won.
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Who has a Thestral hair wand?

The most widely known wand to have used a Thestral tail hair was the Elder Wand. Created either by Death or Antioch Peverell, the Elder Wand was the strongest known wand in the entire history of wizardkind, and by legend was made to render the user invincible in wizard duels.
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What does quite bendy flexibility mean?

Flexible Wands. The wands characterized as brittle, quite or fairly bendy, quite or fairly flexible, pliant, supple, and whippy, are considered “flexible wands”. These usually fall in the hands of owners who like to progress quickly in life and face changes without hesitation.
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Who has the longest wands in Harry Potter?

At 16 inches, Hagrid's wand is the longest known wand within the series.
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Who has the doe Patronus?

Case study 2: Severus Snape

A doe. And in his final battle with Lord Voldemort, Harry explained the significance of this to his adversary, and to us: 'Snape's Patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's, because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from the time when they were children'.
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Why is Bellatrix Lestrange's wand bent?

During the filming of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Helena Bonham Carter accidentally punctured Matthew Lewis's eardrum when she stuck her wand in his ear during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries scene, in which Bellatrix threatens Neville Longbottom.
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Who has the prettiest wand in Harry Potter?

McGonagall's (Maggie Smith) wand is simply stunning and extremely elegant. 9½ inches long, made of fir wood with a dragon heartstring core; the wand's round handle looks comfortable to the grip.
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