English-Oak

English oak (binomial name Quercus robur) is the type species of the genus (the species by which the oak genus Quercus is defined), and a member of the white oak section Quercus.
==History==
An unidentified student of Salazar Slytherin in the medieval period possessed an English oak wand, which he had been told demonstrated "powerful intuition", showing the historical significance of this wand wood.Oak trees grew in the Forbidden Forest. The front doors of the Entrance Hall of Hogwarts Castle were made of oak. In 1992, Rubeus Hagrid pulled Harry Potter and Hermione Granger behind a towering oak when they were serving detention, after he heard an odd noise. A bit later, after he had been paired with Draco Malfoy, Harry spotted a clearing through the tangled branches of an ancient oak. 
Harry Potter once saw the wing mirror of the Flying Ford Anglia snap off as they squeezed pass a large oak tree while being chased by Aragog and Mosag's children.
==Wandlore==
According to Garrick Ollivander's notes on wand woods: "A wand for good times and bad, this is a friend as loyal as the wizard who deserves it." Wands of English oak demand partners of strength, courage and fidelity. Less well-known is the propensity for owners of English oak wands to have powerful intuition, and, often, an affinity with the magic of the natural world, with the creatures and plants that are necessary to wizardkind for both magic and pleasure.
==Folklore==
The oak tree was called King of the Forest from the Winter Solstice up until the Summer Solstice, and its wood should only be collected during that time (holly became King as the days began to shorten again, and so holly should only be gathered as the year wanes).The divide between holly and oak aforementioned was believed to be the origin of the old superstition, "when his wand's oak and hers is holly, then to marry would be folly", a superstition that Garrick Ollivander found to be baseless.
==Known English-Oak-Wand Owners==
Rubeus Hagrid.jpg|Rubeus Hagrid
*Salazar Slytherin's student
==Behind the scenes==
*For the film series, the Elder Wand prop, first designed years before Deathly Hallows was published and the wand's backstory was revealed, was carved out of English oak.Pottermore - Features: "Behind the scenes: the look of the Deathly Hallows"
==See also==
*Red-Oak
==Notes and references==
Category:Fagaceae
Category:Wand W Woods