Harry Potter Wandlore 10 Things You Didnt Know About Veela Hair Cores
Harry Potter Wandlore: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Veela Hair Cores
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Veela hairs are rare wand cores, but here is some interesting wandlore about veela hair from the Harry Potter series.
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Veela are first introduced to the Harry Potter series in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. They are used as the mascots for the Bulgarian Quidditch team. While they are recognized as separate from wizards, they often marry wizards and have families. Fleur Delacour’s grandmother was a veela, making Fleur one quarter Veela herself, along with her younger sister Gabrielle.
While Ollivander only makes wands using phoenix tail feather, unicorn hair, and dragon heartstring, those are far from the only cores to be found in wands across the wizarding world. Veela hair is also used on occasion for particular witches and wizards, and there is some interesting wandlore to accompany this unique core.
10 Rare
Veela hair is used very rarely as a wand core in the Harry Potter universe. In fact, only one wand in the epic seven novel series is ever confirmed to have veela hair at its core. Ollivander never uses veela hair as the core of any of his wands, and no wand maker is ever named who does use veela hair.
The one wand in the series never has its creator named or confirmed. Most wizards will never come in contact with a veela hair wand, much less own one.
9 Fleur Delacour
Fleur Delacour is the one witch in the Harry Potter series who is confirmed to have a wand made with a veela hair core. The hair for her wand was donated by her maternal grandmother. It’s not clear whether anyone who is not part veela would have a hair at the core of their own wand.
Fleur’s wand is 9½ inches long, and made of rosewood. Rosewood is also a rare wood for a wand, known for its incompatibility with dark magic. It is better known for its use with love spells and healing magic.
8 Veela Magic
Veela have their own type of magic which does not require the use of a wand, as seen at the Quidditch World Cup, Bulgaria vs. Ireland. This may play into the power provided by a veela hair core in a wand.
It’s also possible that anyone who possesses a veela hair wand may be particularly talented at wand-less or wordless magic.
7 Veela Characteristics
Veela are defined as female humanoid magical beings. They have the ability to drive men wild, especially when they use their “charm” or perform a particular dance for which they’re recognized. They are thus able to hypnotize and mesmerize most men with the dance.
Men under their influence will then try to impress them. If a veela is angered she is also capable of morphing into a bird-like creature with scaly wings protruding from her shoulder blades. In their bird form, veela are able to throw handfuls of fire at whoever has angered them.
6 Only Women
There is no such thing as a male veela. As far as is known from the Harry Potter series, there are no male veela hair wand owners either.
Only Fleur is confirmed as the owner of a veela hair wand, though it is quite possible her younger sister, Gabrielle, also has a wand with a strand of her grandmother’s hair at its core.
5 Personal Connection
The rarity of veela hair wands highlights the personal connection that most who possess veela hair cores have to their wands. Wands cored with veela hair are usually found paired with witches and wizards who have veela ancestry in their family lines.
Again, Fleur’s wand has hair donated by a full-Veela relative, her grandmother. It is possible that only someone who is able to provide their own veela hair can have a wandmaker transform the item into a wand core.
4 No Veela Hair For Ollivander
The great wand maker, Garrick Ollivander, when he arrives to perform the weighing of the wands in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, says that he will not use Veela hair for cores. He explains that this is because he believes veela hairs make for “temperamental” wands.
Like veela themselves, with their strong tempers and magical transformations, Ollivander does not want to imbue any wand with this same personality or trait. Wands should be at least slightly predictable to their owners. It’s also likely he doesn’t waste his time because he knows there isn’t much of a market for veela hair cores.
3 Personality
A witch or wizards who possesses a veela hair wand often tend to be beautiful and charismatic, as Fleur herself certainly is.
While a witch or wizard with a veela wand often appear calm, they can also have quick tempers, just like their veela ancestors and the wands they use. This is probably in part why Ollivander does not work with veela hair at all when making wands for British wizards.
2 Slavic Mythology
Veelas originally appear in Slavic mythology. Some Slavic legends claim that if a single Veela hair is plucked, she will either die or change into her bird like form.
These possible complications and dangers may also be one of the reasons why very few wandmakers work with veela hair to begin with.
1 Supreme Cores
Ollivander himself may have had a bit of influence on the lack of use of veela hair across the wand making industry. Ollivander popularized the practice of using the “supreme cores” only in wand making across the globe. His use of only phoenix tail feather, unicorn hair, and dragon heartstring certainly made an impression.
Before this trend, it was much more common for wandmakers to experiment and use a larger number of magical substances as wand cores. Veela hair may be easily available, but modern wandlore trends have moved wandmakers away from using the less common cores in their work overall.
Link Source : https://screenrant.com/harry-potter-wandlore-veela-hair-core-facts/
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