Okay, so this blog was started with the idea to promote my duct tape sales, but from now on I'll run off on tangents, starting right now, with a little rant about J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter.
Specifically, I find movies' usage of wands troubling. Each of the wands used in the movie seems to reflect the character by whom the wand is used. While that is fine and dandy for adding subliminal, visual characterization connotations for each witch and wizard, it breaks all the rules about wands laid down by the way magic work in the wizarding world. "The wand chooses the wizard," as Ollivander and Dumbledore always say, and thus the crafter of the wand cannot possibly carve the wand into a likeness of its future holder. Why would Ollivander carve a wand with vines and flowers on it, when the wand could choose a more aggressive, less nature-loving wielder?
My main problem with the wands is the wand of Lord Voldemort. It's off-white, and resembles a bone. However, Voldemort's wand, until he procures the Elder Wand, is the wand with a core the same as Harry's. Voldemort's wand with a twin core is the same one that he procured as the eleven-year-old Tom Riddle, a boy who was far from becoming the most evil wizard of all time. An eleven-year-old boy would not have been handed a bone wand to try out at the wand-maker's shop, unless it's a shop outside "The Evil Baby Orphanage" (John and Hank Green Nerdfighter Reference... if you don't get it, I encourage you to do the research via YouTube and Google. Look now, you can finish reading later).
The characterizing aspects of a wand are the core, the wood, and the length. Adding decor to it is nice to look at, and it probably does help those who have not read the books understand a bit more about the character, but it just doesn't make sense if you understand how wand dispension (I'm pretending it's a word.) works.
Buona Notte.
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