Je moet een aantal gegevens van jezelf doorgeven, zoals lengte (klein, gemiddeld of groot voor je leeftijd), oogkleur en je moet kiezen tussen iets van 5 of 6 dingen wat je het liefst zou willen (o.a. wisdom, power, knowledge). Er zijn nog een paar vragen maar die ben ik alweer vergeten :')
Anyway, op basis daarvan krijg je dan je wand gepresenteerd (: Het leuke is dat je daarna ook kunt lezen wat de eigenschappen zijn van het soort hout waar je wand van is gemaakt, wat de lengte en stevigheid van je wand ermee te maken hebben en hoe het zit met de verschillende kernen die gebruikt worden.
Zelf heb ik uiteindelijk een wand van 14 1/2 inches (grofweg 37 centimeter), gemaakt van kersenhout, brittle (ik kom even niet op de Nederlandse vertaling van dat woord - bros? In ieder geval niet extreem stevig) en met een kern van feniksveer.
Pottermore schreef:
Phoenix
This is the rarest core type. Phoenix feathers are capable of the greatest range of magic, though they may take longer than either unicorn or dragon cores to reveal this. They show the most initiative, sometimes acting of their own accord, a quality that many witches and wizards dislike.
Phoenix feather wands are always the pickiest when it comes to potential owners, for the creature from which they are taken is one of the most independent and detached in the world. These wands are the hardest to tame and to personalise, and their allegiance is usually hard won.
Pottermore schreef:
Cherry
This very rare wand wood creates a wand of strange power, most highly prized by the wizarding students of the school of Mahoutokoro in Japan, where those who own cherry wands have special prestige. The Western wand-purchaser should dispel from their minds any notion that the pink blossom of the living tree makes for a frivolous or merely ornamental wand, for cherry wood often makes a wand that possesses truly lethal power, whatever the core, but if teamed with dragon heartstring, the wand ought never to be teamed with a wizard without exceptional self-control and strength of mind.
Pottermore schreef:
Many wandmakers simply match the wand length to the size of the witch or wizard who will use it, but this is a crude measure, and fails to take into account many other, important considerations. In my experience, longer wands might suit taller wizards, but they tend to be drawn to bigger personalities, and those of a more spacious and dramatic style of magic. Neater wands favour more elegant and refined spell-casting. However, no single aspect of wand composition should be considered in isolation of all the others, and the type of wood, the core and the flexibility may either counterbalance or enhance the attributes of the wand’s length.
Most wands will be in the range of between nine and fourteen inches. While I have sold extremely short wands (eight inches and under) and very long wands (over fifteen inches), these are exceptionally rare. In the latter case, a physical peculiarity demanded the excessive wand length. However, abnormally short wands usually select those in whose character something is lacking, rather than because they are physically undersized (many small witches and wizards are chosen by longer wands).
Wand flexibility or rigidity denotes the degree of adaptability and willingness to change possessed by the wand-and-owner pair - although, again, this factor ought not to be considered separately from the wand wood, core and length, nor of the owner’s life experience and style of magic, all of which will combine to make the wand in question unique.
Overigens leuk weetje: Ollivander's volledige naam is Garrick Ollivander.