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Snape's Wand

[info]torino10154
10/21/08 09:21 am
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We don't know anything about Snape's wand. What sort of wood? The core and length? For info on known wands for comparison, here is a link to the Lexicon wand page.
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  • (Anonymous)
    10/21/08 11:26 am (UTC)
    A month or two ago, I have finished a story, where exactly this question was a subplot. (Sorry, it is not in English, I am not a native speaker and I prefer to write in my mother tongue :( (: .) the solution there was as follows: Severus had two wands. The first was birch and dragon heartstring, 13", good for healing, white and rather old fashioned, it seemed to be very fragile because of its carving. It was very old, too, made by Ollivander's father, and Severus told it waited for him for very long time. He owned it from the age of 11, but he stopped to use it shortly after he took the Mark. Then he bought the second one, ebony and phoenix, plain, black and at first sight dangerous.
    (And when Voldemort died and the magic of the Mark was collapsing, it happened, that it tried to destroy Severus' magic and to murder him, so he got rid of the Mark. Then the second wand, the ebony one, rejected him and he came back to the birch one. It was a little bit more difficult, but for this question it doesn't matter.)
    -- ioannina --

    • [info]shyfoxling
      10/24/08 03:17 am (UTC)
      Severus had two wands. The first was birch and dragon heartstring, 13", good for healing, white and rather old fashioned, it seemed to be very fragile because of its carving. It was very old, too, made by Ollivander's father, and Severus told it waited for him for very long time. He owned it from the age of 11, but he stopped to use it shortly after he took the Mark.

      I used that idea in a drabble too, once, except I made the division point that he took a different wand after he defected from the Death Eaters.

      • (Anonymous)
        10/24/08 09:39 am (UTC)
        Can you give me a link, please?
        My exact idea was that it was the Mark what had influence to his magic, so by rejecting (cutting out?) the Mark, his magic changed and the DE-wand rejected him. The first wand knew him (his magic) from the times, when he had no Mark, so it became to be compatible again after the surgery. :-) Probably, when he took the Mark, the first wand became less compatible too, and that was the reason for purchasing the second one, not only his personal feeling that the birch wand is for girls. ;-)

        • [info]shyfoxling
          10/24/08 03:24 pm (UTC)
          It Chooses the Wizard

          so by rejecting (cutting out?) the Mark

          Rejecting, perhaps. We know he didn't do anything physical to it, or at least, that he did not succeed if he tried, since it came back in GoF. (Unless you were speaking of an AU kind of idea?)

          The idea of the wand "knowing him" is used in mine too, as you'll see. He had one wand from childhood through 1981 and then got another. The wand had got used to certain sorts of things that he just couldn't/wasn't doing anymore, basically.

          • (Anonymous)
            10/24/08 06:00 pm (UTC)
            Thank you very much, I like it! It is like to wash one's hands, isn't it? And probably the first wand foresaw his DE future, so when he decided to change his own destiny, they started to part, his wand and him. :-)

            The first wand in my mind foresaw his future as a healer, so it was less able to do the DE work for him and waited until the start of the AU where he lived, but brewed an antiserum against Nagini. In this AU, when you are using magic, it leaves residues of energy, what can influence potions. That is the reason why there has to be no foolish wand waving. :-) So when Voldemort died, his magical work started to collapse, including the Marks, and Severus was under influence of the antiserum, and it collided. The only possibility how to stay alive was to cut out (physically) the Mark, what was possible because of the components in the antiserum. Yes, a bit difficult... well, subplot. :-D But then, finally, the first wand was right and he fully accepted the possibilities hidden in it, the healing power etc. Really, very similar idea to the yours.
            -- ioannina --
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