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J.K. Rowling Shows Off Cursed Child Wand Designs

By Ani Bundel

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J.K. Rowling hypes Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by teasing her presence at rehearsal and the characters’ new wand designs.

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Though Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has been in rehearsals now for over a month, little to no information has leaked from within the theater’s walls. There have been a few minor slip ups–an over eager rep here posting an actor’s part, an interview there calling a character “major”–but all in all, we know as little about the details of the plot, or even which actor is playing who, as we did back in February.

But with just over a month to go before the show goes into their first previews in front of audiences, it must surely be time for the production to start letting a little bit about Cursed Child out into the public. Rowling clearly feels this too–with all the attention fantastic Beasts got last week between the first trailer and CinemaCon, Cursed Child is likely to be drowned out if marketing isn’t careful. As it is, fans are still regularly confused which is a movie and which is not, as well as which is a prequel and which is a sequel.

To that end, Rowling spent her Monday on the premises of the Cursed Child set at London’s Palace Theater in order to tweet from rehearsals.

More importantly, she teased a little bit about some of the more important details of the production. Including what Harry, Hermione, Ron and Ginny’s wands look like now that they are adults.

Very interesting. Let us compare to the movie wands, shall we?

It’s interesting that the two women’s wands–Ginny and Hermione–look, if not very similar to the movie version, adhere extremely closely to the same motif. Ginny’s spiral handle is one of major defining trails of her wand–in fact when we did a round up of places to buy wands from, some of the vendors referred to “Ginny Weasley style handles” costing extra. Hermione’s vines are also sort of her trademark. Looks like the stage show decided to stick with those for them.

Harry’s also sticks to the same motif, but laid out very differently–one does not immediately notice, upon looking at the movie version, that his wand is based on veins. One mostly notices the bone shaped handle. It is not until you look close at the shaft and coloring that the “vein” motif becomes obvious.

Draco and Ron on the other hand, are very different. Draco’s motifs of a “saber” and  can be seen in both. This can partly be blames on him having a minimalist wand in the movies–partly because he is supposed to be a “bad guy” for series, but not THE bad guy, if you get my meanings, the prop makers didn’t want to give him a wand with a lot of personality. His father’s and Voldemort’s are far more memorable. Ron’s, on the other hand, in the movie is designed to fit with the other Weasley wands. For his new one, the motif is totally different. (That of a “striped sweater.”) Both of their new wands are actually a bit “Pottermore” style, if you will–anyone who has tested for their wand on the site will know what I mean. For those that don’t, check them out:

Ron’s looks like the bottom wand, while Draco’s looks like the middle one. Very interesting–did the stage show do that deliberately? Or was it an accident of design? Maybe Rowling will reveal that down the line….

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…oh and yes, this does confirm that Draco and Ginny are in the play. Not that anyone doubted they would be–after all Scorpius is confirmed as a character, so one would expect Draco also to be there. And even if Harry and Ginny broke up, she’s still the mother of Albus (the “Cursed Child” of the title) so chances are high she would appear as well. But it’s good to have confirmation, nonetheless.

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