Ollivanders

> Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C.
>
> The strapline for this shop, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

**Ollivanders** was a wand shop founded in ***382 B.C.*** Located in Diagon Alley ***South Side*** in ***London***, ***England***, it was owned by the ***Ollivander family***, widely acknowledged to be the best wandmakers in ***Great Britain***.

## Locations

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There were two known locations of Ollivander's wand shop. There was a branch of Ollivanders in both Diagon Alley and in Hogsmeade. The Hogsmeade branch was located on Hogsmeade's ***High Street***, as the street served as the primary location for the wizarding village's shops. The Hogsmeade branch was very similar to its counterpart in Diagon Alley.
The Hogsmeade branch was run by an associate of Garrick Ollivander.

## History

### ***382 B.C.***

It was believed by Garrick Ollivander, a descendant of the original ***Ollivander***, that Ollivanders arrived with the Romans, setting up a stall (which, in due course, evolved into a shop) to manufacture and sell wands to the ancient British wizards, whose wands were crudely-made and inferior in quality and performance.

### ***19th century***

***Gerbold Ollivander*** sold wands to students in the late 19th century, including one ***rather unusual one***.

### 1984

In ***1984***, ***Jacob's sibling*** went to Ollivanders to purchase ***their wand***.

### 1986–1987 school year

During the ***1986–1987 school year***, ***Minister for Magic*** ***Millicent Bagnold*** came to the shop to have Ollivander repair her wand. She was in a hurry and did not want Ollivander to take extra time testing her wand. Jacob's sibling approached her in the shop, and after cleaning up some wand she knocked over on the floor, spoke to her and persuaded her to attend ***Knarlenbarn***, requesting she bring her pet ***Knarl*** with her.

### ***1988–1989 school year***

During the 1988–1989 school year, ***Mundungus Fletcher*** went to Ollivanders to ask about the wand of ***an opponent*** whom he had lost a duel to, but Garrick Ollivander couldn't tell much. Shortly afterwards, ***Jacob's sibling*** and a friend visited to find out about Fletcher, and Ollivander told them about the previous encounter with him.
After ***Patricia Rakepick*** broke ***Jacob's sibling's wand***, they went to Ollivanders to purchase ***a second wand***.

### ***1989–1990 school year***

At some point near the end of the 1989–1990 school year, ***Jacob's sibling*** and ***Jae Kim*** came to Ollivanders to meet ***Mundungus Fletcher*** and Ollivander, who had some information on a dark witch who had been gathering information of Jacob's sibling and ***their wand*** (who turned out to be ***Verucca Buckthorn-Snyde***).

### ***1990–1991 school year***

During the 1990–1991 school year, ***Jacob's sibling*** and ***Ben Copper*** visited Ollivanders to investigate Ollivander's ***misfiring wand***. After Jacob's sibling, ***Penny Haywood*** and Professor Snape successfully brewed a ***counter-serum for Xeep's Luscious Locks Solution***, Jacob's sibling offered it to the victims of the solution, including Ollivander, in the shop.

### 1991

**Ollivander**: "*Curious ... very curious ...*"
**Harry Potter**: Sorry, but what's curious?
**Ollivander**: "*I remember every wand I've ever sold, Mr Potter. Every single wand. It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather is in your wand, gave another feather — just one other. It is very curious indeed that you should be destined for this wand when its brother — why, its brother gave you that scar.*"
— Ollivander on Harry Potter's wand[src]

On ***31 July*** 1991, Harry Potter was taken to Ollivanders by Rubeus Hagrid in order to get Harry a wand for his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry tried dozens of wands before he was chosen by a wand of holly and phoenix feather. Mr Ollivander said that he had remembered every wand he had ever sold, and he found it curious that Harry should be destined for a wand that was brother to the one that had killed Harry's parents, and had almost killed him.

### 1992

During the Christmas holidays, Ollivanders was closed with a small notice on the door, which read "*Wandered out for a spell, will return later*".

## Description

The shop was described as narrow and shabby with peeling gold letters over the door of the shop read: *Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C.*

   The shop's display consisted of a ***solitary wand lying*** on a faded purple cushion in the dusty window. The shop was tiny, empty except for a single, spindly chair in the corner. Thousands of narrow boxes containing wands were piled right up to the ceiling of the tiny shop, and the whole place had a thin layer of dust about it.

## Items for sale

* Wand (7 Galleons)
* Peacock feather (1 Knut)

## Behind the scenes

> Oh no — not Ollivanders, everybody got their first wands from here.
>
> Hermione Granger discovering Ollivanders abandoned, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)

* In Death Eaters attacked the store directly, causing an explosion that left it in a wrecked state; debris, products and furniture lay all over the place, the windows were broken open instead of being boarded up, and the door was unlocked. Unlike in the book, Ollivander clearly struggled while being taken by Fenrir Greyback, while two Death Eaters took with them stocks of wands as booty. The trio discovered the mess when they saw the state it was left in. It was while looking around the crime scene that Ron noticed Draco and ***Narcissa Malfoy*** moving towards Knockturn Alley.

## Appearances

**The 5D-Shared-Combined Crossovers for An The-Good/Evil-Hybrid Wiki** has 2 images related to ***Ollivanders***.
* *Harry-Potter and-the Sorcerer's S Stone* (film) (First Entire Appearance)
* *Harry Potter and The Order-Of-The Phoenix* (film) (Mentioned only)
* *Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince* (film)
* *Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows (film)*

## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *Harry-Potter and-the Sorcerer's S Stone* (film), Chapter 7
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5. ↑ Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Mr Ollivander" at *Wizarding World (website)*

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