Ollivanders

Ollivanders
Location information
Location	South Side, Diagon Alley, London, England High Street, Hogsmeade, Scotland
Owner(s)	Gerbold Ollivander (1890s) Gervaise Ollivander (formerly) Garrick Ollivander
Affiliation	Ollivander family

"Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C."

— The strapline for this shop

Ollivanders was a wand shop founded in 382 B.C. Located in Diagon Alley South Side in London, England, it was owned by the Ollivander family, widely acknowledged to be the best wandmakers in Great Britain.

Locations

The Hogsmeade local branch of Ollivanders

There were two known locations of Ollivander's wand shop. There was a branch of Ollivanders in both Diagon Alley and in Hogsmeade.

Diagon Alley

The shop was described as narrow and shabby with peeling gold letters over the door of the shop read: Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C.

Harry Potter being served by Ollivander in the shop

The shop's display consisted of a solitary wand lying on a faded purple cushion in the dusty window. The shop was tiny, empty except for a single, spindly chair in the corner. Thousands of narrow boxes containing wands were piled right up to the ceiling of the tiny shop, and the whole place had a thin layer of dust about it.

Hogsmeade

The Hogsmeade branch was located on Hogsmeade's High Street, as the street served as the primary location for the wizarding village's shops. It was run by Gerbold Ollivander during the late 19th century, and by an associate of Garrick Ollivander during the late 20th century. The Hogsmeade branch was very similar to its counterpart in Diagon Alley.

History

382 B.C.

It was believed by Garrick Ollivander, a descendant of the original Ollivander, that Ollivanders arrived with the Romans, setting up a stall (which, in due course, evolved into a shop) to manufacture and sell wands to the ancient British wizards, whose wands were crudely-made and inferior in quality and performance.

1980s

Millicent Bagnold in Ollivanders

During the 1986–1987 school year, Minister for Magic Millicent Bagnold came to the shop to have Ollivander repair her wand. She was in a hurry and did not want Ollivander to take extra time testing her wand. Jacob's sibling approached her in the shop, and after cleaning up some wand she knocked over on the floor, spoke to her and persuaded her to attend Knarlenbarn, requesting she bring her pet Knarl with her.

During the 1988–1989 school year, Mundungus Fletcher went to Ollivanders to ask about the wand of an opponent whom he had lost a duel to, but Garrick Ollivander couldn't tell much. Shortly afterwards, a Hogwarts student and a friend visited to find out about Fletcher, and Ollivander told them about the previous encounter with him.

At some point near the end of the 1989–1990 school year, Jacob's sibling and Jae Kim came to Ollivanders to meet Mundungus Fletcher and Ollivander, who had some information on a dark witch who had been gathering information of Jacob's sibling and their wand (who turned out to be Verucca Buckthorn-Snyde).

1990–1991 school year

Victims drinking the counter-serum

During the 1990–1991 school year, Jacob's sibling and Ben Copper visited Ollivanders to investigate Ollivander's misfiring wand. After Jacob's sibling, Penny Haywood and Professor Snape successfully brewed a counter-serum for Xeep's Luscious Locks Solution, Jacob's sibling offered it to the victims of the solution, including Ollivander, in the shop.

1991

Ollivander: "Curious ... curious ..."

Harry Potter: "Sorry, but what's curious?"

Ollivander: "I remember every wand I've ever sold, Mr Potter. Every single wand. It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather is in your wand, gave another feather — just one other. It is very curious indeed that you should be destined for this wand when its brother — why, its brother gave you that scar."

— Ollivander on Harry Potter's wand

Harry Potter entering Ollivanders on 31 July 1991

On 31 July 1991, Harry Potter was taken to Ollivanders 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. Finding it curious why Harry should be destined for such wand, Mr Ollivander, who remembers every wand he had ever sold, subtly reveals Harry's new wand to be a twin brother to the one that had killed Harry's parents, and cast the failed curse, adding that the cores of both wands are feathers of the same phoenix, with the other twin wand belonging to the culprit. Before Harry purchases the wand, Ollivander reveals of the terrible things done by the twin wand's owner.

1992

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

1996–1997

Arthur Weasley: "Talking of Diagon Alley, looks like Ollivander's gone too."

Ginny Weasley: "The wandmaker?"

Arthur Weasley: "That's the one. Shop's empty. No sign of a struggle. No one knows whether he left voluntarily or was kidnapped."

Ginny Weasley: "But what'll people do for wands?"

Remus Lupin: "They'll make do with other makers. But Ollivander was the best, and if the other side have got him it's not so good for us."

— Arthur Weasley, Ginny Weasley and Remus Lupin discussing Ollivander's disappearance in the summer of 1996

The exterior of the shop before Ollivander's kidnapping

In 1996, Alexandra Walker attempted to rob the shop. This event made Daily Prophet headlines. When Harry Potter visited Diagon Alley in his sixth year, he found Ollivanders 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 of why Voldemort's 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 Lord 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.

2000s

Ollivanders reopened after the Second Wizarding War ended and sold wands to new witches and wizards as usual. Before September 2008, a student bought their wand from Ollivanders. Ivy Warrington also brought her wand in for Ollivander to help repair but with help from the student, she learned she was only using it wrong.

Items for sale

• Wand (7 Galleons)
• Peacock feather (1 Knut)

Known wand sales

Owner	Wood	Length	Core	Notes
Gormlaith Gaunt	Unknown	Unknown	Dragon heartstring	The wand was sold to Gormlaith after her niece Isolt Sayre stole her first wand, a family heirloom originally belonged to Salazar Slytherin himself.
Sebastian Sallow	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	This wand was sold to Sebastian by 1890
Unidentified student	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	This wand, strange and unusual, was sold by Gerbold Ollivander to the student on 2 September 1890, at Ollivanders in Hogsmeade.
Tom Marvolo Riddle	Yew	13½"	Phoenix feather	This wand was "brother" to Harry Potter's wand - the core tail feathers were both from Fawkes.
Rubeus Hagrid	Oak	16"	Unknown	This wand was "rather bendy"; snapped in half when Hagrid was expelled from Hogwarts during his third year - the pieces were almost certainly hidden in Hagrid's pink umbrella.
Peregrine	Hornbeam	Unknown	Dragon heartstring	This wand was sold to him at some point.
Bellatrix Lestrange	Walnut	12¾"	Dragon heartstring	This wand was described as "unyielding"; passed into the possession of Hermione Granger after the Battle of Malfoy Manor in 1998.
Lily Evans	Willow	10¼"	Unknown	This wand was "swishy" and "nice for Charm work".
James Potter	Mahogany	11"	Unknown	This wand was "pliable" and "excellent for transfiguration".
Peter Pettigrew x2	Chestnut	9¼"	Dragon heartstring	This wand was "brittle"; owned by Pettigrew only since Ollivander had been kidnapped of 1996; passed into the possession of Ron Weasley after the skirmish in Malfoy Manor in 1998.
Mary Cattermole	Cherry	8¾"	Unicorn hair	Dolores Umbridge falsely accused Mary of stealing this wand, though she informed her she bought it at Ollivanders in Diagon Alley when she was eleven years old.
Jacob	Maple	10"	Dragon heartstring	After Jacob was expelled from Hogwarts, it was believed that his wand was snapped in half.
Jacob's sibling	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	This wand was sold to them before the 1984–1985 school year.
				This wand was sold to them in the 1988–1989 school year after Patricia Rakepick broke their first wand.
Penny Haywood	Sycamore	Unknown	Phoenix feather	The feather core of this wand was from Pyra. Ollivander described it as one of the finest wands he had ever made.
Juniper Hunt	Willow	10"	Unicorn hair	This wand chose Juniper.
Cedric Diggory	Ash	12¼"	Unicorn hair	This wand was "pleasantly springy"; hair from particularly fine male unicorn (seventeen hands high), which nearly gored Mr Ollivander with its horn after he plucked its tail hair.
Hermione Granger	Vine	10¾"	Dragon heartstring	This wand was confiscated when the trio was captured by Snatchers in 1998.
Ron Weasley	Willow	14"	Unicorn hair	Purchased with his father's winnings from a Daily Prophet draw.
Draco Malfoy	Hawthorn	10"	Unicorn hair	"Reasonably springy"; this wand passed into the possession of Harry Potter after the Battle of Malfoy Manor in 1998 until Harry came into possession of the Elder Wand and mended his first wand.
Harry Potter	Holly	11"	Phoenix feather	"Nice and supple" and cost 7 Galleons. The only known wand to cause Priori Incantatem (caused with Voldemort's wand); it could hurt but not kill its brother. It was broken in December 1997 while fleeing from Godric's Hollow but later repaired with the Elder Wand on 2 May 1998.
Neville Longbottom second wand	Cherry	13"	Unicorn hair	May have been one of the last wands Mr Ollivander sold before he disappeared in 1996.
Unidentified student	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	This wand was sold to the student before the 2008–2009 school year

Behind the scenes

"Oh no — not Ollivanders, everybody got their first wands from here."

— Hermione Granger discovering Ollivanders abandoned

Ollivanders being attacked and destroyed by Death Eaters in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

• There are a few differences during the scene in Ollivanders between the first book and the film adaptation:
  • In the book, when Harry buys his wand, Hagrid is with him. In the film, Hagrid is not present, having gone to buy Hedwig.
  • In the book, Harry tried many wands before Mr Ollivander found the right one, but in the film he only tried two wands before Mr Ollivander found the right wand. In the book, when Harry waved the wands, they didn't do anything, but in the film when he waved the two wands he tried, the first one caused multiple wand boxes to expel themselves from their shelves and the second wand shattered a flower vase.
• In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Death Eaters attacked the store directly, causing an explosion that left it in a wrecked state; debris, products and furniture lay all over the place, the windows were broken open instead of being boarded up, and the door was unlocked. Unlike in the book, Ollivander clearly struggled while being taken by Fenrir Greyback, while two Death Eaters took with them stocks of wands as booty. The trio discovered the mess when they saw the state it was left in. It was while looking around the crime scene that Ron noticed Draco and Narcissa Malfoy moving towards Knockturn Alley.

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) (Exterior only)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Mentioned only)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Mentioned only)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game) (Seen on the Daily Prophet)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
• Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Book
• The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
• Harry Potter: The Wand Collection
• LEGO Harry Potter: Building the Magical World
• LEGO Harry Potter: Characters of the Magical World
• LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
• LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
• LEGO Harry Potter
• Harry Potter Trading Card Game
• Pottermore
• HarryPotter.com
• Harry Potter for Kinect
• Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
• Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
• Harry Potter: Magic Awakened
• The Magic of MinaLima: Celebrating the Graphic Design Studio Behind the Harry Potter & Fantastic Beasts Films
• Hogwarts Legacy
• The Art and Making of Hogwarts Legacy

External links

• Ollivanders at the Hogwarts Legacy Wiki