Discussion on the Whomping Willow

[WhatCanHappenTonight]

Alice Vitalis

WhatCanHappenTonight

My room is white with Black willows all over the walls smile makes me happy

D: I would hate if they moved at night.

Ya the first night (after i finished painting them on) I swore they were moving Hahha, but nao its nice smile i might draw death from the movie about the three brothers next to one of my trees!

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ShinHaeMoon

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Alice Vitalis

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Come on bro, I know you were always acing Herbology emotion_awesome

Well, I am a Hufflepuff.
emotion_awesome

I am a Hufflepuff too ^-^

But I am more of a potions and charms fangirl. Though I would take herbology as well!

Transfig, for me.
Or Potions...

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Alice Vitalis

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Alice Vitalis

ShinHaeMoon

Alice Vitalis

The Whomping Willow is just a tree but it is very important in the books.

Does anyone like it? I mean, when I lived in England, I was first exposed to Willows - and I have to say I love them, although there was a point after I read the second book I refused to go close to them.

I also wonder if they could manage to get wood from the Whomping Willow for wands. Since the tree is magical - or more magical than most other willows in any case - would its wood be better for wands? Or not?

( This thread is dedicated to SincereGoodbyes who really likes trees. )

I think a wand made from the whomping willow would be really BA to have. Mine is just from a maple tree (:

I think it may be too temperamental though...however I haven't really looked into trees with a "personality" being used for wand wood.

Badass, hell yeah. I want one. I bet it'd be really good in duels and such because it likes to hurt people >>;

Maple's not bad. At least you don't have UNICORN HAIR as your core emo

Bahaha. I've got the same core, man.
"Horace Slughorn, however stated that unicorn tail hair was worth 10 galleons a hair. It is possible that wands made with unicorn hairs are more expensive than those made with phoenix feathers."

I want to cut up my wand && sell it

Do it.

[x Avacyn Angel of Hope]

SincereGoodbyes

Do it.

stare But the WAND chooses the WIZARD, which therefore means I am now male so I doubt there is any other wand that will be as compatible with me emo

[GoldenRoya]

It's a clever idea. Purely from a writing standpoint, who would have ever thought of using a tree as a guardian? Okay, well, lots of folks, but this is the first tree I've ever seen that takes an active role in the guarding process. It's an old standard that was turned sideways by JKR's fertile imagination.

Oh. God. Just had a thought. More like a major insight, actually...

So most analysts say (and JKR has herself agreed) that the Harry Potter series was based thematically off of Arthurian legend. I won't go into full details here, but if you google Harry Potter and King Arthur you should come up with some of the (very good and insightful) articles that I read.

Anyway, in Arthurian legend, Merlin is imprisoned either within or behind a tree, depending on which story you read. The tree is his guard/guardian. And in HP, the tree is used to guard the entrance to the place where one of Harry's mentors spends a good chunk of his time.

Dang, JKR's good...

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Alice Vitalis

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Do it.

stare But the WAND chooses the WIZARD, which therefore means I am now male so I doubt there is any other wand that will be as compatible with me emo

Clone it.

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GoldenRoya

Dang, JKR's good...

THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID

She makes my life complete. :3

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WhatCanHappenTonight

Your siggy makes me lol so much.

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Alice Vitalis

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ShinHaeMoon

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Alice Vitalis

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Come on bro, I know you were always acing Herbology emotion_awesome

Well, I am a Hufflepuff.
emotion_awesome

I am a Hufflepuff too ^-^

But I am more of a potions and charms fangirl. Though I would take herbology as well!

Transfig, for me.
Or Potions...

YOU'RE INTO HERBOLOGY. emotion_0A0

FINE.

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Alice Vitalis

ShinHaeMoon

I want a Wompillow ^-^

WOMPILLOW. BEST.
THING.
EVER

Is it a type of pillow?

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Alice Vitalis

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Alice Vitalis

ShinHaeMoon

I want a Wompillow ^-^

WOMPILLOW. BEST.
THING.
EVER

Is it a type of pillow?

rolleyes It's the NEW PROTOTYPE, geez, I bet you haven't heard of it because you're not a pureblood.

emotion_8c

Y-you said you wouldn't bring that up...
YOU MEANIE PANTS.

[x Avacyn Angel of Hope]

SincereGoodbyes

emotion_8c

Y-you said you wouldn't bring that up...
YOU MEANIE PANTS.

I'm a Slytherin.
Slytherins lie. 3nodding

BUT SINCE YOU'RE SO POOR I guess I'll just have to let you shar-- no, borrow, mine. <O<;

OOC: Where do you find the list of emoticons sweatdrop