One simply had to disarm the master of the Wand, either by knocking it out of their hand with a spell or simply grabbing it out of their hand. Most people believed that meant one had to kill the Elder Wand's master, but this was not actually the case. The Elder Wand gave its loyalty to whoever could win it from its previous master. Appearing at face value to be a wand like any other, it had a smooth, unadorned shaft and a handle formed from two conjoined spheres. ĭespite its legendary reputation and immense ability, the Elder Wand was an unassuming object. The Thestral core was ' a tricky substance that only wizards that mastered death can control'. Only a highly unusual person who was the superior of their company would find their perfect match with this wood. This type of wood that contained powerful magic was the rarest of all wand woods, but was said to be deeply unlucky and trickier than any other to master. The wand was made of elder wood, was 15 inches and contained a Thestral tail hair core. The Elder Wand's core was the tail hair of a Thestral, a potent yet tricky substance to master only a witch or wizard who was capable of accepting death could do so. It was said to have been the most powerful wand ever to exist, able to perform feats of magic that would normally be impossible even for the most skilled wizards, such as mending another wand damaged beyond normal magical repair. According to legend, whoever united the wand with the other two Hallows (the Resurrection Stone and the Cloak of Invisibility) would become the Master of Death. It was bestowed upon Antioch Peverell after he requested, as his bounty, a wand worthy of someone who had outsmarted Death.

According to The Tale of the Three Brothers, it was the first Hallow created, supposedly made by Death himself. The Elder Wand was one of three magical objects that made up the fabled Deathly Hallows, along with the Resurrection Stone and the Cloak of Invisibility. Immensely powerful, dangerous in the wrong hands, and an object of incredible fascination to all of us who study the power of wands.' - Garrick Ollivander discussing the Elder Wand

Its history is bloody, but that may be simply due to the fact that it is such a desirable object, and arouses such passions in wizards. Whether it needs to pass by murder, I do not know. It has certain identifying characteristics that those who are learned in wandlore recognise. ' There are gaps, of course, and long ones, where it vanishes from view, temporarily lost or hidden but it always resurfaces.

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