Dragon Heartstring has typically been cast as a "dark magic" type of wood, but really, it just implies a wand with a tendency towards offense. Thus, this wand would be good for offense over defense, such as throwing out powerful curses and spells. It may seem weird when coupled with its firmness - flexible - but the firmness has to do overall with how easy it is to learn new spells and how powerful those spells become. With flexibility, it wouldn't be too challenging to learn new spells while at the same time retianing strength and firmness at it's core. The length, I believe, doesn't play as big a role in determining so much the strengths/weaknesses of the wand as it does just correspond to things like height - a smaller wizard gets a shorter wand, because it's more wieldy. Lastly, the wood, Rowan, which if I recall correctly, corresponds more or less with the element of fire and casting powerful spells, meshes nicely with the wand core in providing strong offensive hexes and curses, while at the same time, I imagine it would be less than stellar at healing and some charms.
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Date: 2010-07-14 06:18 pm (UTC)Core: Dragon Heartstring
Length: 10 inches
Firmness: Flexible
Dragon Heartstring has typically been cast as a "dark magic" type of wood, but really, it just implies a wand with a tendency towards offense. Thus, this wand would be good for offense over defense, such as throwing out powerful curses and spells. It may seem weird when coupled with its firmness - flexible - but the firmness has to do overall with how easy it is to learn new spells and how powerful those spells become. With flexibility, it wouldn't be too challenging to learn new spells while at the same time retianing strength and firmness at it's core. The length, I believe, doesn't play as big a role in determining so much the strengths/weaknesses of the wand as it does just correspond to things like height - a smaller wizard gets a shorter wand, because it's more wieldy. Lastly, the wood, Rowan, which if I recall correctly, corresponds more or less with the element of fire and casting powerful spells, meshes nicely with the wand core in providing strong offensive hexes and curses, while at the same time, I imagine it would be less than stellar at healing and some charms.
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