When setting up the app on their device, the wand user selects their Patronus animal, and when this spell is cast, they can see a clip of the Patronus running around the screen on the smart TV connected to the app.Īfter the very informative presentation, it was our turn to test out the Defiant wand ourselves. This weather spell conjures up a loud weather storm on the smart TV video while flashing the smart connected lighting in the room. The lights first default to the user’s House color (in the demo, the user was a Ravenclaw, so the lights flashed blue), followed by the other House colors. When this spell is cast, the smart connected lighting changes color. This was then followed by some spell demonstrations, and we definitely had some favorites: Beauvais ran her wand operation out of New Orleans, creating scarily powerful wands out of swamp mayhaw wood and hairs from rougarous, the dog-headed monsters native to the swamps of Louisiana.Harry Potter: Magic Caster Wand, Defiant design

Quintana created his wands using spines from the White River Monsters of Arkansas, but as he never divulged how he killed the creatures, his famous wands went out of production after Quintana died. Wolfe's wands were best known for their Thunderbird tail feathers and aptitude for transfiguration, while Jonker's wands had an iconic mother-of-pearl inlay which made them easy to spot. While you might remember Harry Potter purchasing his wand at Ollivander's in Diagon Alley, American wizards in the 1920s purchased their wands from four, distinct wandmakers: Shikoba Wolfe, Johannes Jonker, Thiago Quintana, and Violetta Beauvais.

In an earlier story, Rowling revealed wands were a European invention and that the earliest wizards in America practiced magic solely with their hands.Īfter the establishment of Ilvermorny, the American school for witchcraft and wizardry, wands became commonplace among American wizards. Over the course of the week, Rowling released three other 'Magic in North America' stories, chronicling Native American magic, life during the Salem witch trials, and the enacting of ' Rappaport's Law,' a piece of legislation that drove wizards into hiding from No-Maj (the American word for non-magical people) after 1790.įriday's story takes a look at '1920s Wizarding America,' and includes a section on where American wizards get their wands.

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