#beech wands

Beech and Unicorn Hair, 10 3/4″, unbending

Beech and Dragon Heartstring (Peruvian Vipertooth), 11", unyielding

Beech wands tend to select for either the understanding and experienced or those wise beyond their years. However, this ability to understand others does not necessarily mean openmindedness - merely that they are not narrow-minded. Matched to a Peruvian Vipertooth heartstring, I imagine that this individual might quickly draw their conclusions of a person, understanding as they may be - however the flexibility there suggests they may well be stubborn about changing their mind. The length however, suggests a slight lack of confidence, but whether that makes them more stubborn, or permits them to reconsider, I cannot yet say. However, the sheer power of Dragon may be a confidence boost enough to firm up that stubbornness more than necessary. However, one would hope Beech’s own nature in selecting this individual means they’ll change when holding their opinion risks becoming narrowmindedness.

Pine and Dragon Heartstring (Peruvian Vipertooth), 10 3/4", firm

Pine is a reliably independent wandwood, seeking someone likewise. Coupled to Peruvian Vipertooth makes for a surprising combination - smaller dragons are more likely to share territory, or at least be less violent over it, than larger dragons (aside from the more social Chinese Fireball). This suggests someone who’d keep to themselves and yet likes being around people. Not necessarily someone who finds people draining, but who simply feels no especial need to interact or make an impression. The length and flexibility here add to this impression - someone who is perhaps not the most confident or assertive, but who nonetheless knows their bounds and firmly keeps to them.

Vine and Dragon Heartstring (Peruvian Vipertooth), 10 3/4", unyielding

Appearance?

In depth on Beech?

I don’t really think there’s much cause to go in depth on Beech, the analysis is pretty direct, I think.

Beech and Phoenix Feather, 10 3/4", unyielding.

Beech wands seek those with either wisdom or experience - and at times, both. It cannot bear to be borne by an individual who refuses to expand their perspective (and consequently a wand of Beech would likely fail the author of the canon we here draw on). In this case, the length and flexibility speak to someone very stubborn but likely with a fair few self-doubts, consequently I would say they are the younger kind Ollivander suggests as matches for such wands - young, but with wisdom beyond that years. Wisdom, after all, hardly means that they are cured of their doubts or their stubbornness. However, given Beech’s own nature, I suspect that this wand’s unyielding flexibility indicates not a stubborn refusal to change in it’s master so much as a stubbornness of determination - this individual is likely to set themself at a task well. Phoenix cores are known to be somewhat detached, which naturally mixes well with Beech’s desire for wisdom or experience - someone who knows when to detach and observe. However, I think this wand would also bring out some of the fire of Phoenix and would be well matched by this wand’s bearer’s likely determination to achieve their goals - I suspect that would pull at it’s fiery nature well.

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Pine and Nundu Heartstring, 10 3/4 inches" whippy

Pine wands select for the independent, though how much of this independent “loner” appearance is by choice is up for debate. Generally speaking Pine wands seek out creative masters and have a knack for selecting wixes likely to live a long time. Given the core of this wand the impression I get is of a wix whose isolation is not necessarily entirely by choice. Wands cored with Nundu Heartstring tend to lean towards those who feel strongly, for good or ill, and those who are perceptive and quick with comments. It is quite possible this individual was isolated less by their own will and more for some quirk they never thought of as a quirk and, by way of their forced outsider perspective, saw perhaps more than some of their bullies wanted and commented on it. I fear that such a person would become settled in their isolation as they become older, never quite escaping the apparent insecurity that their wand’s length (at the shorter end) and flexibility (incredibly so) seem to indicate. This person lacks self-confidence, perhaps due to a lack of positive social reinforcement, and is adaptable to the point of changeability; it seems to me this is the wand of someone who wants very much to fit in but was never given much of a chance to. Then, as they got older, they settled into their isolation, deciding it better than whatever those that rejected them had; I suspect this individual might end up with something of a superior attitude quite effectively concealing whatever insecurities may remain.

I see this wand as being angular, with swooping curves to distinguish shaft from crossguard from handle from pommel but all coming to sharp abrupt edges, almost pointed. When gripped tightly, this wand marks it’s bearer’s hand. I also see it slightly detailed with a deep stain to distinguish the pommel and crossguard, almost black against the pale of the pine.

Beech and Phoenix Feather, 9 1/2 inches" surprisingly swishy

Beech wands tend to select those either wise beyond their years or who have had experiences that enhance their understanding; they avoid the narrow-minded and intolerant and should their wix become so they may fail to work. In this case, given the wand’s length, I suspect this is the wand of someone quite young (so short a wand indicates a great lack of self-confidence, which suggests to me both youth and perhaps a newness to magic, as well as a good chance of self-doubt). The core however suggests versatility; I expect this individual will find themselves doing better than expected magically, though I worry at what this wand’s flexibility might mean. Flexibility generally indicates adaptability and potential for change, but when things get to the swishy and whippy end it can indicate someone too changeable for their own good. In this case, combined with the wand’s length and what I suspect is a very young bearer, I fear this is the wand of someone who, if they are not careful, may be swept up into extreme movements that present themselves as progressive or in defence of on marginalised group at the expense of another. Experience and youthful wisdom in no way preclude great mistakes, after all, and it can be very easy for people who genuinely want the best to be suckered in by seemingly progressive ideologies that can be readily reframed to exclude those in need of help.

I see this wand as an almost soft thing, elegant in carving with soft curves to it. The handle as a soft in-groove, while the lower end of the wand shaft has soft out-curves to it, like a small stack of blueberries, before the shaft smooths out.

English Oak and Phoenix Feather, 10 3/4 inches" whippy

English Oak wands select for... well, in many ways, the ideal Gryffindor - people with strength of will, courage, and loyalty - but this is only the surface layer (and after all, just because someone has these traits in no way means that they value them in such a way as they would be sorted so). On a deeper and more subtle layer, English Oak wands have a tendency to select for those with a knack for understanding the magic of the natural world - Magizoology and Herbology - and those with something of an intuition for it. Coupled to a core of such versatility I can see this wand selecting someone as destined for Gryffindor as Hufflepuff - if this is their first wand. This could also be a wand for someone a little later in life, perhaps partway through school or just after it. The length and flexibility here limit my belief at an older age range; the length is not fully self-confident but it is hardly self-doubting and far from arrogant - this is the wand of someone who’s become somewhat more confident in their own ability - while the flexibility indicates to me someone still very adaptable and with a great potential for change. However, given the nature of an English Oak wand, the sheer flexibility here does not worry me as much as it might; English Oak suggests a kind of steadfastness that I think suggests a wix who is less likely to change for social approval and more an ability to change as required but without much warning, perhaps seeming abrupt to those who do not yet know them well.

Beech/Virginia Strangler and Dittany Stalk/Magma Python Rib, 11 1/4″, solid

Now, I am inclined to believe that the solidity of this wand comes, in fair measure, from the Magma Python Rib core, and so it is not the most reliable assessment of the stubbornness of this wand’s eventual bearer. Instead, given this core and the nature of Dittany as a growing plant and a healer, I imagine the eventual bearer of this wand is likely even more adaptable than might commonly be seen in a bearer of a Magma Python cored wand. The length also indicates that they’re not yet fully grown into a firm degree of confidence, which likewise speaks to a degree of changeability. 

Beech and Unicorn Hair, 11 1/4″, unbending

Beech wands seek those who either have gained wisdom through experience and understanding, or who have a particular way of viewing the world which lets them glean knowledge they might not otherwise have. Unicorn cored wands tend to seek those who are, if not pure-hearted, not usually actively malicious, for they cannot stand Dark magic. The length and flexibility here indicate stubbornness and what is either a lack of confidence or some lack of understanding of the self. 

The individual chosen by this wand is likely someone who looks outwards more than inwards; they have a good understanding of those around them and why they act as they do, but less understanding of themselves, or a lack of confidence. While not malicious, they may speak harshly in anger, especially if they feel their anger is justified - though there is just as great a chance that they will not completely understand the origin of their anger. Alternatively, anger may be born of stubbornness and frustration, perhaps linked to a lack of confidence, and not be true anger so much as a feeling of inadequacy and a desire to prove oneself.

Beech and Winged Horse Feather (Areionan), 13″, reasonably springy

Beech and Phoenix Feather, 13", reasonably springy