Here are some links about Wand Wood & Yew, in case anyone finds them useful ✨
Ginevra Weasley's wand
The author revealed a picture via her official Twitter account on April 18, 2016 showing her idea of some of the main character's wand designs, where Ginny's wand wood was revealed for the first time to be made from yew. Interestingly enough, Harry Potter's wife and his mortal enemy both share the same wand wood.
Ginny Weasley's wand was made of yew[1] wood with an unknown length and core material. Like most wizards and witches in Great Britain, Ginny
Yew
A yew tree stood in the Little Hangleton graveyard, where Lord Voldemort was resurrected. Yew trees were also known to grow in the Forbidden Forest, where Harry was first formally introduced to Thestrals, seeing them "between two gnarled yew trees" during one of Rubeus Hagrid's Care of Magical Creatures lessons.
Yew (genus Taxus) is a genus of small coniferous trees or shrubs in the yew family Taxaceae. All parts of the tree are poisonous.[5] A yew t
Wand Wood - Yew
Yew wands are among the rarer kinds, and their ideal matches are likewise unusual, and occasionally notorious. The wand of yew is reputed to endow its possessor with the power of life and death, which might, of course, be said of all wands; and yet yew retains a particularly dark and fearsome reputation in the spheres of duelling and all curses.
However, it is untrue to say (as those unlearned in wandlore often do) that those who use yew wands are more likely to be attracted to the Dark Arts than another. The witch or wizard best suited to a yew wand might equally prove a fierce protector of others. Wands hewn from these most long-lived trees have been found in the possession of heroes quite as often as of villains.
Where wizards have been buried with wands of yew, the wand generally sprouts into a tree guarding the dead owner’s grave. What is certain, in my experience, is that the yew wand never chooses either a mediocre or a timid owner.
The following description of the powers and properties of various wand woods is taken from notes made, over a long career, by Mr Garrick Oll
Theory: Riddle's Diary Influenced The Selection Of Ginny's Wand.
Ginny gets the diary put on her person by Lucius Malfoy the same day her yew wand choose her.








