Timeline for Why are wands so cheap compared to their materials in Harry Potter?
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| Mar 23, 2021 at 14:31 | comment | added | ava | i think this is just poor thinking on JKR's part | |
| S Sep 5, 2020 at 16:14 | history | mod moved comments to chat | |||
| S Sep 5, 2020 at 16:14 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor♦ | Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. | |
| Sep 5, 2020 at 15:43 | answer | added | jvb | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 5, 2020 at 7:59 | comment | added | Paul Johnson | All this assumes that Ollivander is an economically rational actor. Given his somewhat unworldly mien and focus on wandlore its likely that he just doesn't care about the money as long as he has enough to live on and learn more about wands. | |
| Sep 4, 2020 at 3:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/1301716787248103425 | ||
| Sep 3, 2020 at 20:30 | answer | added | Dean MacGregor | timeline score: 9 | |
| Sep 3, 2020 at 18:09 | comment | added | user91988 | Isn't the whole point of Slughorn that he's a slimy, shady guy who's out for himself, but not "bad" per se? I totally believe that Slughorn knows a way to sell unicorn hairs for 10 Galleons apiece. There's suckers everywhere, even (especially?) in the Wizarding World. | |
| Sep 3, 2020 at 17:20 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Sep 3, 2020 at 13:36 | answer | added | Valorum | timeline score: 49 | |
| Sep 3, 2020 at 10:55 | answer | added | AncientSwordRage♦ | timeline score: 22 | |
| Sep 3, 2020 at 10:08 | comment | added | Danila Smirnov | Prices can also vary with time and location - maybe from first to sixth book it becomes more dangerous to get unicorn hair, so the suppliers raise their wages; or maybe Slughorn knows there's a demand for unicorn hair in some country where unicorns do not appear naturally (I'd assume that in wizarding world wand components are a strategic resource not unlike oil or even fissile materials). | |
| Sep 3, 2020 at 10:01 | comment | added | mwarren | A hair from a horses tail is quite long, if you divided it up you may get 2 or 3 wand lengths out of one. | |
| Sep 3, 2020 at 9:58 | comment | added | BMWurm | Maybe wands are actually far more expensive for anybody other than world-famous boy wizards who just happen to have been selected by the twin of the wand of the most evil dark wizard out there? I mean, Ron has to use Charlie's old wand, and only after Arthur wins the big cash price (plus the old one being willow-whomped) he gets a new one. Granted, the Weasleys are supposed to be extremely poor, but at an exchange rate of 5 quid per galleon, a 7ʛ wand costs 35 pounds, which should still be affordable for something the kid is arguably going to be using for the rest of his life. | |
| Sep 3, 2020 at 9:25 | comment | added | Jontia | Government support? Wand sellers are provided funds to operate much like Dairy farmers? | |
| Sep 3, 2020 at 9:17 | history | edited | TheLethalCarrot♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 3, 2020 at 9:15 | history | asked | MBEllis | CC BY-SA 4.0 |