Ronald Weasley's first wand

Ronald Weasley's first wand
Made	In or before 1984
Owner	Charlie Weasley (c. 1984 - 1991) Ronald Weasley (1991 - 1993)
Length	12"
Wood	Ash
Core	Unicorn hair
Book information
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Last appearance	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Ronald Weasley's first wand is 12 inches long and made of ash wood and unicorn hair. It appears in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Charlie Weasley, the first known owner of the wand, gave it to Ron when he left Hogwarts. The wand was broken a year and a half later when Ron and Harry Potter crashed into the Whomping Willow. Over the next few months, the broken wand kept firing mishaps so he eventually received a new wand.

History

It is unknown when or how the wand was purchased, but if Charlie Weasley was its first ever owner, the it was likely around the time he turned eleven years old. When he graduated from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he gave the wand to his younger brother, Ron. Their parents could not afford to buy new things for him for his first year at Hogwarts. By this point, the unicorn hair was poking out of the wand which suggests it might have already been an old wand.

At the start of his second year, Ron damaged the wand when he and Harry Potter crashed a Ford Anglia into the Whomping Willow. The wand was nearly snapped nearly in half and was only kept together by a few splinters. Ron put it back together using Spellotape but it started crackling and sparking at random, and any spells it tried to produce just turned into a grey fog. Ron tried to clean up spilled in on homework with it but it just smudged it even more. When he tried to curse Draco with the Slug-vomiting Charm, the spell bounced back and struck him instead.

At the Duelling Club in December, Ron duelled Seamus Finnigan who was left ash-faced by a mishap. However, the broken wand proved to be useful in May when Professor Lockhart was forced by Harry and Ron to go into the Chamber of Secrets. After he saw the shedded skin of a Basilisk, Lockhart took Ron's wand and tried ti perform a Memory Charm on Ron and Harry. The spell bounced back and hit Lockhart instead, who was left with severe memory loss. The impact caused huge chunks of rocks to fall and separate Harry from the rest of the group.

In July, Arthur Weasley won seven-hundred galleons and bought Ron a new wand. It's unknown what happened to the first wand.

Trivia

• It is unknown who made the wand but it is likely Garrick Ollivander, the wandmaker of choice for witches and wizards in Britain and Ireland.