- "Early in my career, as I watched my wandmaker father wrestling with substandard wand core materials such as kelpie hair, I conceived the ambition to discover the finest cores and to work only with those when my time came to take over the family business."
- — Garrick Ollivander[src]
The hair from a kelpie can be used to comprise the core of a wand, but is known to be a substandard core material.
Wandlore
Kelpie hair is noted to be an inferior substance.[1]
Known uses
- In his time as owner of Ollivanders, Gervaise Ollivander used to make wands of Kelpie hair, which inspired his son Garrick Ollivander to be a wandmaker himself.
See also
Appearances
- Pottermore (Mentioned only)