

As concept designer Adam Brockbank explained, "their wands are the sheerest expressions of their characters. Harry Potter concept art: Characters Harry Potter Image source: Laura. He death happened during Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. It is called Eilean na Moine in the movie to act as a burial place of Dumbledore. He gave each principal actor a chance to choose their own wand from a more visually dynamic range. It appears in the 2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and in part one of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It seemed, fairly enough, that the books would have to hold the unique characters of the wands, and that these details simply couldn't be translated to the screen.īut then along came Alfonso Cuarón to direct The Prisoner of Azkaban. In the first two Harry Potter films, each wand was subtly different from the others, but the designs were simple and it could be difficult to tell them apart. Voldemort's, on the other hand, is constructed from yew, a tree with several deep-rooted connotations with death.

Look at their wand woods: Harry's is made of holly, with clear connections to the traditional Christian views of right and wrong and the idea that the wood is protective like Harry himself. Take for example the twin cores of Harry's and Voldemort's wands, both coming from the tail feathers of Fawkes the Phoenix.
