What is the strongest wand wood?

Rowan wood has always been much-favoured for wands, because it is reputed to be more protective than any other, and in my experience renders all manner of defensive charms especially strong and difficult to break.
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What is the most powerful wand material?

Dragon Heartstring

This core is the most flamboyant of the three, and often produces the strongest and most powerful wands.
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What is the most powerful wand combination?

Wand Core List
  • Dragon Heartstring. Produces the wands with the most power, and the quickest to learn new spells. ...
  • Unicorn Hair. Produces the most consistent magic, and the most faithful of all wands. ...
  • Phoenix Feather. Produces the greatest range of magic, and shows the most initiative.
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What is the rarest wood for a wand?

Elder was the rarest wand wood of all and reputed to be deeply unlucky, and elder wands were trickier to master than any other.
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Are ebony wands powerful?

As the blackest of the black woods, Ebony wood is regarded as one of the most powerful and indiscriminate of all magical woods. Ebony wands can and do channel energy of all types freely and for any purposes.
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Every Single Wand Wood Type (ALL 38) - Harry Potter Wandlore Explained



Can a wand have two 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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Which wand core is best?

Wand Cores
  • Unicorn. Unicorn hair generally produces the most consistent magic, and is least subject to fluctuations and blockages. ...
  • Dragon. As a rule, dragon heartstrings produce wands with the most power, and which are capable of the most flamboyant spells. ...
  • Phoenix. This is the rarest core type.
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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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Who has the coolest wand?

It is time to narrow down the most interesting of the bunch.
  1. 1 The Elder Wand. The Elder Wand is the coolest wand in all of Harry Potter for many reasons.
  2. 2 Lord Voldemort. ...
  3. 3 Horace Slughorn. ...
  4. 4 Bellatrix Lestrange. ...
  5. 5 Sirius Black. ...
  6. 6 Fleur Delacour. ...
  7. 7 Fenrir Greyback. ...
  8. 8 Hermione Granger. ...
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What is Hermione's wand core?

Hermione Granger's wand was 10¾" long, made of vine wood, and possessed a dragon heartstring core. The wand was manufactured by Garrick Ollivander sometime before Hermione's education at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
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What was Merlin's wand made of?

Wand: Merlin owned a wand that was of an unknown length and core, which was believed to be made of English oak wood (although his grave has never been found, so this is unproven). It is unknown whether he made the wand or purchased it.
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Is phoenix feather core powerful?

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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Can a wizard have two wands?

You can use two wands, and there is nothing stating that you can only cast one spell at a time. It's plainly stated that when you hone your skills you can perform unspoken and wandless magic.
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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 longest wand?

Professor Snape's wand is 13.25 inches long. It's black, spare and severe, just like the man himself… The longest wand in the Wizarding World actually belongs to Professor Gilderoy Lockhart, the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher in Harry's second year at Hogwarts.
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What is Sirius Black's wand made of?

Sirius Black's wand was of an unknown length, wood and core material.
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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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Are unicorn hair wands weak?

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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What is the weakest wand in Harry Potter?

20 Harry Potter Wands, Ranked From Weakest To Strongest
  1. 1 The Elder Wand.
  2. 2 Lord Voldemort's Wand. ...
  3. 3 Gellert Grindelwald's Wand. ...
  4. 4 Professor Snape's Wand. ...
  5. 5 Professor McGonagall's Wand. ...
  6. 6 Bellatrix Lestrange's Wand. ...
  7. 7 Professor Flitwick's Wand. ...
  8. 8 Remus Lupin's Wand. ...
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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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Who has phoenix feather wand?

The only phoenix known to have donated his feathers to make a wand was Fawkes, Albus Dumbledore's magical bird. He only gave two feathers, one to Harry Potter's wand, and one to Tom Riddle's wand.
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Who has a unicorn core wand?

Owners of wands with unicorn hair cores include, Cedric Diggory (GF18), Draco Malfoy (DH24), Ron Weasley (his was a hand-me-down from his brother Charlie) (PA3), and Neville Longbottom (OP35).
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What's the rarest wand in Harry Potter?

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 the core of Ginny's wand?

6 Ginny Weasley

What is known is that her wand is made out of yew. This is the same material that Voldemort's wand is made out of, which is very telling of this wand's flexibility. Yew wands are known for their dueling dexterity, which explains why Ginny's spells always come out so vibrantly.
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Can another elder wand be made?

The Elder Wand doesn't have any components that can't be recreated. Presuming that Dumbledore was right (since he usually is) and the Elder Wand was made by one of the Peverell brothers, not Death, there's no reason creating a wand that eventually becomes as powerful as it should be at least possible.
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