Harry Potter Wand: Wood Type

Acacia:

A very unusual wand wood, which I have found creates tricky wands that often refuse to produce magic for any but their owner, and also withhold their best effects from all but those most gifted.

Alder:

It's ideal owner is not stubborn or obstinate, but often helpful and considerate. Most wand woods seek similar characteristics in those they will best serve, alder is unusual and seems to desire opposite attributes in it's wielder.

Apple:

Applewood wands are not made in great numbers. They are powerful and best suited to an owner of high aims and ideals, as this wood mixes poorly with Dark magic.

Ash:

Those suited to ash wands are never swayed from their beliefs. The over-confident witch or wizard, often insists on trying an ash wand, but will be disappointed by it. The ideal owner may be stubborn and courageous but not arrogant.

Aspen:

Aspen wand owners are strong-minded and determined, more likely than most to be attracted by daring quests. This is a wand for revolutionaries and accomplished duellists.

Blackthorn:

Blackthorn, is best suited to a warrior. Wands made from this wood appear to need to pass through danger or hardship with their owners to become truly bonded. After which the blackthorn wand will become loyal and faithful.

Black Walnut:

Black walnut seeks a master of good instincts and powerful insight. It is a very handsome wood, but not the easiest to master. Paired with a sincere, self-aware owner it becomes one of the most loyal and impressive wands.

Beech:

Beech wand wielders are wise beyond their years. The wands themselves are picky and very fussy about who they will serve. Only a properly matched witch or wizard will be able to unleash it's full potential.

Cedar:

Strength of character is prominent in wielders of Cedar, and unusual loyalty. The witch or wizard who is well-matched with cedar carries the potential to be a frightening adversary, which often comes as a shock to others.

Cherry:

This very rare wand wood is one of strange power, most highly prized by the wizarding students of the school of Mahoutokoro in Japan. Cherry wood often makes a wand that possesses truly lethal power, whatever the core.

Chestnut:

The wand of chestnut is attracted to witches and wizards who are skilled tamers of magical beasts, those who possess great gifts in Herbology, and those who are natural fliers.

Cypress:

Geraint Ollivander was always honoured to match a cypress wand, for he knew he was meeting a witch or wizard who would die a heroic death. Wands of cypress find their soul mates among the brave, the bold and the self-sacrificing.

Dogwood:

Matching a dogwood wand with its ideal owner is always entertaining. Dogwood wands are quirky and mischievous; they have playful natures and insist upon partners who can provide them with scope for excitement and fun.

Ebony:

Ebony is happiest in the hand of those with the courage to be themselves, and are comfortable with being an outsider. Ebony wand owners have been found both among the ranks of the Order of the Phoenix and Death Eaters.

Elder:

The rarest wand wood of all and the trickiest to master; it takes a remarkable wizard to keep the elder wand for any length of time because they must be superior to all in their company.

Elm:

Elm wands prefer owners with strong presence, and dignity. Of all wand woods, elm produces the fewest accidents, the least foolish errors, and the most elegant charms and spells. These are wands capable of highly advance magic.

English Oak

This wand is a friend as loyal as the wizard who deserves it, but it demands a partner of strength and courage. It's wielder often has powerful intuition, and a connection with both nature and animals/beasts.

Fir:

Gerbold Ollivander always called it ‘The survivor’s wand.’ because he had sold it to three wizards who passed through mortal peril unscathed. Fir wands are best suited to owners who are focused, strong-minded and appear intimidating.

Hawthorn:

These wands are complex by nature, just like the owners who best suit them. They may be good for healing magic, but they are also adept at curses. Hawthorn is not easy to master, and should be used by a powerful witch or wizard.

Hazel:

Hazel often reflects its owner’s emotional state, and works best with a master who can manage their feelings because the wand will absorb negative energy and discharge it unpredictably, but it can be an incredibly powerful wand.

Holly:

Holly is one of the rarer kinds of wand woods; traditionally considered protective, it works most happily for those who may need help overcoming a tendency to anger and impetuosity.

Hornbeam:

Hornbeam selects a mate for life with a single, pure passion, which some might call obsession. It becomes so quickly fine-tuned to it's master that others will struggle to use it even for the simplest of spells.

Maple:

I have often found that those chosen by maple wands are by nature travellers and explorers; they are not stay-at-home wands, and prefer ambition in their witch or wizard, otherwise their magic grows heavy and lacklustre.

Larch:

Strong and durable, larch has long been known as a powerful wood. It has a reputation for instilling courage and confidence in it's user. It always creates wands of hidden talent and unexpected effects, which describes it's master.

Laurel:

It is said that a laurel wand cannot perform a dishonourable act, although in the quest for glory, I have known laurel wands to perform powerful and sometimes lethal magic. It will also strike lightning on any who try to steel it.

Pear:

Pear wands have splendid power, which works best in the hands of a warm-hearted, generous master. Wielders of pear wands usually popular and well-respected. Never before has a one chosen a dark witch or wizard.

Pine:

Pine prefers an independent, individual master who may be perceived as a loner, intriguing and perhaps mysterious. Pine wands enjoy being used creatively, and unlike some, will adapt unprotestingly to new methods and spells.

Poplar:

Here is a wand to rely upon. One of consistency, integrity, strength and uniform power, always happiest when working with a witch or wizard that has similar attributes.

Red Oak:

You will often hear the ignorant say that red oak is an infallible sign of its owner’s hot temper. In fact, the true match for a red oak wand is possessed of unusually fast reactions, making it a perfect duelling wand.

Redwood:

Redwood wands are not themselves lucky as many believe, but are strongly attracted to witches and wizards who already possess the admirable ability to make the right choice, to snatch advantage from catastrophe.

Rowan:

Rowan is most happily placed with the clear-headed and the pure-hearted, but this reputation for virtue ought not fool anyone – these wands are the equal of any, often the better, and frequently out-performs others in duels.

Silver Lime:

These wands are sought after due to their reputation of performing best for seers and legilimency, both of which are mysterious arts and bring elevated status to any who practice them proficiently.

Spruce:

The spruce wand requires a firm hand. It often has its own ideas about what spells it ought to be casting. Its best suited to a bold spell-caster with a good sense of humour, and, if handled well, will become a loyal wand.

Sycamore:

The sycamore makes a questing wand, eager for new experience and losing brilliance if engaged in mundane activities. It is a quirk of these handsome wands that they may combust if allowed to become ‘bored'.

Vine:

Vine wands are among the less common types, and nearly always choose those witches or wizards who seek a greater purpose,who have a vision beyond the ordinary and who frequently astound those who think they know them best.

Walnut:

Highly intelligent witches and wizards ought to be offered a walnut wand first, because nine times out of ten, the two will find in each other their ideal mate, but it can be a truly lethal weapon in the hands of a dark master.

Willow:

Willow is an uncommon wand wood with healing power, and I have noted that the ideal owner for a willow wand often has some (usually unwarranted) insecurity, however well they may try and hide it.

Yew:

Yew wands are ancient and notoriously powerful in the realms of duelling and curses. This is not to say that their users are more inclined towards the dark arts, but whatever path they choose will be anything but mediocre.