Comments on: What Happened to Ollivander?

By: HogwartsProfessor.com » Blog Archive » PDay Minus Two: Prediction #6 -- The House-Elves

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:19:45 +0000

[...] Dark Lord they all despise to save their hero, Harry Potter. Travis’ original post, “What Happened to Ollivander,” is worth reading in its entirety, but here is the part about the house-elves I find so [...]

By: Corey

Corey — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:00:49 +0000

I like your theory, and I think you may be right.

Another thing to consider- Nevil gets the -last- wand from Olivander’s shop, then he disappears in the morning. I think he was waiting for Nevil. It’s the wand that chooses the wizard yes? And Nevil is also oddly marked by destiny, but has been blocked in some ways by his grandmother pushing him to be his father (whose wand he was using up till he got his own from Olivander).

I think Nevil is due to show even more metal, and that Olivander was expecting that and waiting to leave. It also makes it look a lot more voluntary.

I also wonder if -Olivander- dragged off Fortescue. It didn’t say his place was destroyed, or the dark mark seen over it (as it might be if death eaters had gotten it). It said it looked like he’d been “dragged off”. And they disappeared the same night- one after making a long-awaited sale and packing up neatly, the other less willing. Hmmm.

By: Boggart

Boggart — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:14:55 +0000

This is a theory that seems to come from JKR’s own mind

By: Floo_powder

Floo_powder — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:33:03 +0000

seriously_black, DD held things back from the Order as well. IF ths theory pans out in some form, I would guess he’s with the goblins(safe), to bring them in and round it out. just a guess

By: Boggart

Boggart — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:35:17 +0000

Jk did say that there would be more info on wands in B7. I also wanted to mention that there does’nt seem to be a spell for every little thing. i think that the amount of things you can do is based on the power of your mind and willpower and how strong you have a command over what you want to do. An example is when a O.W.L tester said “Dumbledore did things with a wand that i’ve never seen!”. There also seems to be a varying level of magic-ness among wizards because when some wizards say something (like PROTEGO) it seems stronger than when others say it, further adding to my power theory.Some wizards are very powerful like LV and DD and some seem weak like Neville or Lockhart and I don’t think that has anything to do with how many spells they know. Plz give your thoughts

By: Lawtrix

Lawtrix — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:20:34 +0000

That’s true there is no wands in the book 7 cover, but that doesn’t mean that Ollivander can’t give good information for both sides about the special features of every wand and their master, so he could also be an important character in this story

By: Alice

Alice — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:50:58 +0000

On the new book cover art, there don’t seem to be any wands (!)

By: seriously_black

seriously_black — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:30:18 +0000

professor-mum, whilst it is true that Dumbledore is not aligned with the MoM and Arthur would not have gained information about his plans from that quarter, this is rather beside the point because Arthur is a stalwart of the Order of the Phoenix and it seems likely that if Dumbledore had hidden Ollivander he’d have involved the order in it and that Arthur would know, as a member or the Order, rather than as an employee of the MoM.

By: Eeloora

Eeloora — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:26:23 +0000

I love this theory but have a tiny qualm about it. I don’t put too much store into what is, and is not, included in the movie version of the Potter books usually but remember a comment regarding the making of Prisoner of Azkaban. The director wanted to place the beheading of Buckbeak in a graveyard and the idea was vetoed by Jo Rowling because in future books there would be a graveyard at Hogwarts and the location would not be the same. If, in fact, the house elves are so pivotal to the last book would she have allowed them to be completely excised from the filmed version of Goblet of Fire?

What say ye?

By: Lawtrix

Lawtrix — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:40:17 +0000

If he is at 12 Grimmauld Place then maybe he will know in book 7 where does the locket. Everybody says that harry will go to this place to take the locket but remember that Kreacher was taking the things of the Black family and then he just didn’t reappear so maybe he took the locket, or maybe the locket was sold by Mundungus because he also took this things and sold them…