Ollivanders

Ollivander's Wand Shop is a wand shop of Diagon Alley. It is owned by Mr. Ollivander and is known to be one of the finest wand shops in all of Europe.

1991


In 1991, Harry Potter was taken to Ollivander's by Rubeus Hagrid in order to get Harry a wand for his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry tried dozens of wands before he was chosen by a wand of Holly and Phoenix Feather. Mr. Ollivander said that he had remembered every wand he had ever sold, and he found it curious that Harry should be destined for a wand that was brother to the one that had killed Harry's parents, and had almost killed him.

1992
During the Christmas holidays, Ollivander's was closed with a small notice on the door, which read "Wandered out for a spell, will return later".

1996 and 1997
"Oh no - not Ollivander's, everybody got their first wands from here."

- Hermione Granger upon discovering Ollivander's shop abandoned.

In 1996, Alexandra Walker attempted to rob the store. This event made Daily Prophet headlines.

When Harry Potter visited Diagon Alley in his sixth year, he found Ollivander's shop boarded up and its owner gone as he was kidnapped by Fenrir Greyback and a group of Death Eaters. He was tortured for an explanation why his wand and Harry Potter's wand couldn't battle. Under the Cruciatus Curse, he told Voldemort that it was because of the twin cores, and that all Voldemort needed to do was use another wand. Ollivander was tortured and held in the cellar of Malfoy Manor until Dobby rescued him, Luna Lovegood and Dean Thomas. After recovering at Shell Cottage, He went to the Weasley children's great-aunt Muriel's place to be protected under the Fidelius Charm. Whilst there, he made a wand for Luna as a thank you gift for the comfort and care she had given him during the incarceration. His shop is most likely to have reopened after the Battle of Hogwarts.

Description
Peeling gold letters over the door of the shop read: Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C.. The shop's display consists of a solitary wand laying on a faded purple cushion in the dusty window. The shop is tiny, empty except for a single, spindly chair in the corner. Thousands of narrow boxes containing wands are piled right up to the ceiling of the tiny shop, and the whole place has a thin layer of dust about it.

Behind the Scenes

 * in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film), Hermione Granger claimed that every wizard buys wands at Olivander´s wand shop, but there are other wandmakers.

Appearances

 * Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
 * Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
 * Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
 * Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
 * Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
 * Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows