Editing Magical objects in Harry Potter (section)

=== Elder Wand ===
The '''Elder Wand''' is described in ''Deathly Hallows'' as a legendary and extremely powerful wand made of [[Sambucus|elder]] wood with a core of [[Magical creatures (Harry Potter)#Thestrals|Thestral]] tail hair.<ref name="HP7">{{HPref|book=7}}</ref><ref name="jkextra25">{{cite web |title=Extra Stuff |publisher=J.K.Rowling Official Site |url=http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071208163107/http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=25 |archive-date=2007-12-08}}</ref> Harry discovers that the Elder Wand's allegiance is transferred when its owner is killed, defeated, or disarmed. Through a series of events, Voldemort comes to possess the Elder Wand, even though Harry is its true master. Unaware of the wand's loyalty to Harry, Voldemort attempts to duel him near the end of the novel. The wand refuses to kill Harry, with the result that Voldemort's curse rebounds on him once more, and he dies. After Voldemort's death, Harry uses the Elder Wand to repair his own broken wand. He then returns the Elder Wand to Dumbledore's tomb. In the film adaptation of ''Deathly Hallows'', Harry snaps the wand in two and throws the pieces off a bridge.

J. K. Rowling revealed in an interview that the first working title for ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'' was ''Harry Potter and the Elder Wand''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Rowling |first=J. K. |date=30 July 2007 |title=J. K. Rowling Webchat Transcript |url=http://www.bloomsbury.com/harrypotter/content.asp?sec=3&sec2=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080106145256/http://www.bloomsbury.com/harrypotter/content.asp?sec=3&sec2=1 |archive-date=6 January 2008 |access-date=4 January 2019 |work=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]]}}</ref>