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YOU WONT BELIEVE WHAT I JUST GOT
I hate my nails right now but in wanted to show it anyways
Monster High as HP Characters!
Frankie Ollivander
She’s proudly part of the Ollivander family. She’s a Ravenclaw, she’s loyal sweetheart with a good brain.
Wand is Larch 10 1/2”, Thunderbird tail core, and Slightly Springy
She’s very good at ancient runes and alchemy.
Her patronous or animagus is a Silver Fox.
And has Vitiligo!
This girlie is a gift to my good friend @lazyveta !!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Also available on FF.net here.
Summary: Albus is buying his first wand, James is a thirteen-year-old boy, and Ginny is a terrifying disciplinarian.
Word count: 1,339
Day 1 Ollivanders
Every journey of a wizard or witch, if small or big, starts with receiving their wand. Their magical companion, that will be by their side. And if you want the best wands, ensure a perfect match, then you should stop by the best wand makers, the Ollivanders.
Ollivanders, maker of fine wands since 382 BC.
Hogtober day 1: Ollivanders
The Ancient House of Ollivander
Put simply — and in the interest of honesty — no one knows where the Ollivanders came from.The closest anyone has ever managed is “probably Greek,” and that is based almost entirely on the sound of their names and a gut feeling shared by several historians who later reported vivid dreams of laurel trees and saltwater.
When asked directly, the Ollivanders will give an answer. It will depend entirely on:
which family member you asked,
what day of the week it is,
and whether they’ve had tea in the last hour.
To date, none of the answers have matched. Some may not have been countries.
The House in the Rock
What is known is this: they have always lived in Saltburn-by-the-Sea.
Their home is not on the cliffs but in them — a massive stone outcropping that appears to Muggles as an oddly shaped (but otherwise harmless) rock. Inside, of course, it is much larger, much older, and smells faintly of rosemary and thyme, as though the walls themselves are steeping in memory.
The place shifts. Corridors appear. Rooms drift. Doors open onto seasons that do not exist. No outsider has ever successfully drawn a floorplan.
On Titles (and the Refusal Thereof)
The Ollivanders hold no title in the Magical Aristocracy. There was an attempt, sometime in the fifteenth century, to grant them the Barony of Kilton.
In response, the family:
Politely declined,
Became “terribly lost,”
And were not seen for fifty years.
When they returned, they opened the shop as usual and behaved as though nothing had happened. No one has tried to ennoble them since.
Recent History… probably
Our knowledge of their family lineage comes almost exclusively from second-hand accounts, gossip, and Ministry records that appear to have been written by three different people halfway through a sneeze.
By the late 1890s, the family was probably headed by Theobald Idwal Ollivander, proprietor of Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands Since Before You Were Even a Premonition.
Theobald married… someone. Possibly a witch, possibly a concept. Regardless, he had at least three children:
Layah Morissa Ollivander
Dreanna Kaylia Ollivander
Gervasius Gannon Ollivander
Of these, Dreanna is the only one we can place with certainty — she married into House Longbottom. How old she was at the time, or who her father or grandmother was remains unclear. She features in at least three different eras of their family diaries and looks exactly the same in all of them.
The Layah Line (probably)
We do not know who Layah married, or if she married anyone at all. We assume she had two children because they keep turning up in records:
Emilia Tayla Ollivander
Garrick Aemon Ollivander (yes, the wandmaker)
It is believed that Emilia married Hermes Greengrass, who for reasons unknown took her surname instead of the reverse. They had two children:
Ignotia Emilia Ollivander
Rosario Tayla Ollivander
Rosario appears in several Hogwarts student logs as “present — very unusual girl.” After graduation, she vanished completely. No body. No marriage. No death. She was last seen in a corridor speaking softly to the walls. The walls were answering.
Ignotia, according to Ministry records, married Kainan Theobald Sisinis (whom the Ministry cannot positively identify as a real person) and had two children:
Morissa Ignotia Ollivander
Theobald Kainan Ollivander
Morissa is currently enrolled at Beauxbatons. (We assume Theobald is as well. Beauxbatons will neither confirm nor deny. Their headmistress reportedly sighed and said, “It is better not to look directly at them.”)
Additional Ollivanders (???)
Sightings of other Ollivanders have been reported across the globe:
Arsenius Ollivander, Magizoologist in New Guinea.
Eldrin Ollivander, journalist in Sidon.
Ivonne Ollivander, seen picking flowers on a hillside in Greece. She walked into the olive trees and did not walk out. Two weeks later, the hillside bloomed in midwinter.
Attempts to confirm these identities have resulted in:
Inconclusive paperwork,
Sudden archive gaps,
And one unfortunate intern wandering onto Platform 9 ¾ and refusing to leave because “the air feels correct here.”
No comprehensive family tree has ever been successfully compiled. Multiple historians have tried. Some have gone mad. Most simply forgot what they were doing.
What We Know (and What We Don’t)
What we know:
They exist.
They have always existed.
They make wands better than anyone alive or dead.
They are older than most countries and younger than the sea.
They are charmingly polite and deeply unsettling.
What we do not know:
Where they came from.
How many there are.
When (or if) they die.
Why they are the way they are
On Heraldry and Motto
House Ollivander has no official heraldry and claims no motto. Whether this is because they have none, or because they refuse to share them, is a matter of debate.
It is worth noting that on the rare occasions someone has asked an Ollivander if they possess a crest or words of their own, the family member in question simply smiled, and the questioner later forgot they had ever spoken.
In Conclusion
The Ollivanders are not titled. They do not sit in the Wizengamot by right. They hold no seat and offer no oaths.
And yet.
Wandlore begins with them. Magic remembers them. History bends quietly to make room.
They are the only family who never sought power —because power comes to them.
They have always lived in the rock by the sea. And they will still be there after the rest of us are gone.
“The wand chooses the wizard.”
However, the designer chooses how it looks different from others when in Harry Potter books, they all relatively looked the same and Ollivander could tell them all apart.
Guess who went to the Ollivander’s of cameras today (and guess who got a sick ass camera)
