Harry Potter: Wandlore

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I've compiled this from a couple different sources; both are unofficial, and I'm crediting them in this post. I'll also be adding additions to the woods and cores myself whenever I come across an interesting possibility. I'll also be posting as replies my own HP OC's wands and, if necessary, any important background information about them.

This first part of the wandlore comes directly from here, and I make absolutely no claim to it; though anything added as an (addition:) to any of the posts is my own addition/input.

Cores
Common

• Dragon heartstring(s)
  Dragon heartstring is a powerful wand with a lot of magical “heft”. It is not the core you want for subtlety, but for sheer power it is definitely the best. Although it is the most common core among Dark Wizards, Dark Wizards are most certainly not their most common users. Dragon heartstrings are by far the most common wand core amongst Slytherins, but their power often bonds to Gryffindors and Ravenclaws as well. However, they tend to overwhelm the archetypal Hufflepuff personality.
  
  
• Phoenix tail feather(s)
  Phoenix tail feather is a popular wand core due to its versatility and power. Its main strength lies in Defense Against the Dark Arts, although its adaptability can wrench it to hexes and jinxes if need be. As with the dragon heartstring core, the phoenix core is common amongst Light Wizards, but its users are not necessarily Light Wizards. This core may specifically impede Dark spells, so it is not common amongst Slytherins. However, it is by far the most common Gryffindor wand core, and is not unusual amongst Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs.
  
  
• Unicorn hair(s)
  Unicorn hair is a more subtle wand, but it is quite compatible with Charms and Transfiguration. It is also hands-down the best core for healing, as it picks up some of the healing capabilities of unicorn blood. Unicorn hair has a reputation of picking gentler or more cerebral users, so it is common amongst Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws. More laid-back Gryffindors and subtler Slytherins may find themselves with a Unicorn hair wand.

Exotics

• Acromantula web
  If you're thinking about having a wand made with Acromantula web, you're probably a fan of having your wand confiscated by the authorities. Using a wand with this core has been illegal in Britain since 1782, after it was discovered that the wielder of an Acromantula web wand has particular ability with Dark magics, especially the Imperius curse. There are certain diplomatic exceptions, as it is a traditional core for Asian wands, but even those are temporary, and many wizard diplomats on long-term assignments find themselves compelled to procure replacement wands for their stay.
  
  
• Augurey tail feather
  Augureys, or Irish phoenixes, were once associated with powerful Dark wands, as their cries were thought to signify an upcoming death. However, they were in reality never a strong Dark core, and were more accurately a powerful core for Divinations. Misunderstood students may find themselves bonded to an augurey wand, although these wands are altogether quite rare.
  
  
• Basilisk skin
  Basilisk wands are incredibly rare, as the beasts are rare to begin with and hard to kill. Due to the rarity, they often are passed down from generation to generation, so basilisk-core wands are either the heirloom of Slytherin-type Pureblood families or reforged wands from family cores. The occasional new basilisk wand will almost always bond to a Parselmouth or budding Dark Wizard. Very little good comes out of wielders of basilisk wands.
  
  
• Billywig stinger(s)
  Billywig stingers are not common in Britain, but are occasionally imported from Australia, the native habitat of the Billywig. Billywig wands bond almost exclusively to light-hearted pranksters, and are extremely capricious- at one moment it will produce the strongest Cheering Charm in the school, but another time it will object to being used as a potion stirrer and siphon up hours of work without so much as a by-your-leave. When they do bond to a witch or wizard, they tend to be of Hufflepuff or Gryffindor.
  
  
• Boomslang venom
  Boomslang venom, whether crystallized or in a rarer liquid core, provides a small boost to jinxes and hexes thanks to its venomous qualities. However, when a wandmaker undertakes the dangerous task of working with the raw venom, it is generally with the aim of creating a powerful Transfiguration wand. Whether or not the advantages outweigh the risks is not generally agreed upon in wandmaking circles.
  
  
• Chimera scale fragment
  Although chimera scales are magically powerful, they are extremely rare in modern wandcraft. This is not out of any concern for safety, as they are generally considered no more stubborn than hippogriff feathers, and are more stable than Erumpent hide. The fact of the matter is that there are more recorded basilisk slayings in the past fifty years than there are chimera slayings in all of recorded history. This one slaying occurred in Greece over two millenia ago, so what scales were harvested at that time have been degraded, broken, and dispersed.
  
  Today, they are only found as parts of heirloom cores, and even then, all such cores are a more common core (often dragon heartstring) with a tiny fragment of scale embedded. Chimera wands are most common in Greece and the Balkans, although as they were circulated through the Mediterranean and former Roman Empire they are found throughout Europe. These wands are prized for their raw power, although they are difficult to control.
  
  
• Demiguise hair(s)
  Demiguise hairs were long considered to not have enough oomph to make a proper wand, but with the advent of multiple cores they have gained favor for their strength in Transfiguration and the subtle arts. When combined with a stronger wand core they make potent wands, however, on their own they can be rather one-dimensional and difficult to use for anything but Transfiguration. They have found favor in students of all Houses, although they may be slightly rarer among the open Hufflepuffs.
  
  
• Doxy wing(s)
  Doxy wings, like the creatures they come from, can be unmanageable and mean-spirited. They are second only to basilisk wands in their abilities with the Dark Arts, and as such these rare wands are most often found in the hands of stubborn Slytherins without the familial connection to obtain a basilisk core.
  
  
• Erumpent hide
  There is a very good reason this is an exotic- Erumpent hide wands are extremely dangerous, and don't take well to high levels of magic or sharp impacts. They may add a 'punch' to spells when combined with a gentler core, but most wandmakers refuse to work with it completely due to the danger it poses to maker and wielder.
  
  
• Fairy wing(s)
  This core makes for a light, airy wand, and is the absolute best for Charms. They also signify a connection to the mystic, so these wands, despite their relative rarity, are used by nearly half of known witches and wizards with the Sight. Despite their astounding strength in Charms, they are merely average in Defense Against the Dark Arts and Transfiguration, and will often fail at hexes altogether. As such, they’re not commonly found in Slytherin House, but are common in Hufflepuff. Ravenclaws and Gryffindors may be drawn to this core, although they tend to react better to blends of fairy wings and unicorn hair.
  
  
• Fwooper feather(s)
  Fwooper feather wands are said to be a mark of ill omen for the wizards they bond to, as, like the birds they come from, they are rumored to slowly drive their wielder mad. Despite their poor reputation, they do well with Charms and Care of Magical Creatures. However, they have a near-inability to cast Quietus. They are commonly combined with another feather core, such as the phoenix for health or the hippogriff for stability.
  
  
• Hippogriff feather(s)
  Hippogriffs are noble animals with a reputation for not taking a slight. These wands require constant respect, and if the wielder does not give it, they can watch its formerly stable and versatile magic backfire on it. It is not the strongest core, but it is one of the most adaptable. These wands are most common amongst Gryffindors, but they are rare overall.
  
  
• Kelpie hair(s)
  Kelpie hairs are incredibly tempermental cores, explaining their rarity. They were once common in Celtic wandmaking, however, the import of demiguise hairs has resulted in them falling out of favor. They have similar qualities to demiguise hair, and are powerful Transfiguration cores when they don't backfire spectacularly.
  
  
• Veela hair(s)
  Veela wands are temperamental like the creatures they come from, and are considered too volatile for a decent wand core in many circles. However, some wizards, particularly those with Veela blood, enjoy the boost it gives to outdoorsy magics, divinations, and Charms. The veela’s inherent intelligence makes finding these wands among the non-Veela blooded most common in Ravenclaw.
  
  Occasionally a wand will be made with more than one of a particular core, or with a combination of two cores.

Woods:

Alder – Alder is extremely rare, as many wandmakers will refuse to take wood from an alder. The ‘bleeding’, turning from white to red, is considered to be inauspicious. The few wands made of alder are often those with strongly opposing cores (such as doxy wings and phoenix feather), as the wood imposes balance.

Apple – Apple is a gentle, outdoorsy wood that would find favor with a student skilled in Herbology or Care of Magical Creatures. It tends to get overwhelmed easily, and is thus rarely used with powerful cores (multiple dragon heartstrings or phoenix feathers, for example).

Ash – Ash is slightly associated with the Dark Arts, as the ash tree is said to ‘strangle’ the plants around it. It does excel at Dark magic, but is also good for Transfiguration. They also tend to bond to good Diviners.

Aspen (cottonwood) – those with aspen wands tend to be defiant and talkative. This wand boosts power in Charms, but detracts from Healing magic.

Beech – beech is a strong, neutral wood that has no particular strengths or weaknesses, with the exception of one small quirk- it tends to function less effectively underwater.

Birch – although it has a reputation for weakness, in actuality birch is one of the finest Light wandwoods in existence. It is associated with both driving out evil spirits (and thus will produce a strong Patronus) and with healing magic.

Black ironwood - an African import, remarkable in that it will sink rather than float in water. Although its strength might imply a powerful wandwood, it is rarely used, even in African wandcraft- its weight, particularly in longer wands, impedes spellcasting, and it is next-to-useless underwater.

Black walnut – a beautiful dark wood, this wand is more decorative than Dark, and is actually a strong Light wood- black walnuts produce a chemical that kills poisonous plants of the Nightshade family.

Blue spruce – Like spruce, a strong wood that excels in everything except the Dark Arts. However, a witch or wizard with a strong personality can coax more out of a blue spruce wand than a spruce one.

Cedar – Cedar is a rather docile wandwood with particular skill in protective spells. Cedar wand wielders often become potent Occlumens.

Cherry – A “happy”, willing wandwood, which will give consistent results at all magic save the Dark Arts. Cherry with phoenix feather is a particularly agreeable combination for a Light wizard without particularly prodigious magical talents.

Chestnut – Chestnut is quite good at Transfiguration, although it tends to sputter at Charms and DADA.

Cypress – Cypresses have long been associated with the Greek god of the underworld, Hades. This wand has subtle power, and is good at Transfiguration and Dark Arts. (addition: Cypress wand also often matches with those who die a hero's death, making it a very two-sided coin.)

Dogwood - Dogwood is extremely hard and strong, and the wands made from it will have this resilience. It was once used for making daggers, and hence has a slight violent streak.

Ebony – Ebony is the most famous of the Dark woods, although not the most powerful. However, for visual impact and power, it is amongst the best. (addition: as it is a very sturdy wood, I think ebony would probably complement a strong core very well).

Elder – although it is rumored that the most powerful wand in existence was made of elder, it is not a particularly common wandwood, if only because when elder wands backfire, they often kills the wandmaker or wielder.

Eucalyptus – Eucalyptus trees grow quickly, so these wands channel that liveliness to be both willing and powerful. However, they are rather rare, and are most commonly Australian imports.

Fir – Fir is not a common wandwood because of its undesirable physical properties, but is occasionally seen in outdoorsy wands.

Gingko - This is a highly unusual wandwood, and is rarely seen in the West. For over a millenium, it competed with plum as the most popular Chinese wandwood, however, as gingko trees ceased to be a wild species, the wood began losing favor. The commonly held perception that wild woods lead to stronger wands means that modern gingko wands are fairly rare. This is not to say that gingko is not a useful wandwood: it has great staying power, and is good for calming tempermental cores.

Hawthorn – There is a unique ritual associated with the harvesting of hawthorn for wandwood- they are only cut in symbolic prunings at Beltane. It is an excellent DADA wand, as it symbolizes protection.

Hazel – Hazel is quiet and versatile, giving subtle boosts to Charms and Transfiguration. It is another wand that denotes skill in Divination.

Hemlock – Hemlock is a ‘quick’ wandwood and allows for fast reactions, and makes an excellent potion stirrer besides.

Holly - the archetypal Light wandwood, Holly is renowned for its ability to repel dark spirits and demons. It may reduce your power in hexes, but the boost you get to DADA may just balance it out.

Hornbeam – Hornbeam, or ironwood, is considered to be the most stubborn of wandwoods. Those who have the necessary will to master it will be rewarded with an extremely powerful wand.

Ivy – an uncommon wandwood due to the difficulty of harvesting thick enough pieces, it is often worth the trouble, as it is deceptively strong.

Kaya - A lovely yellow wandwood of Japanese origin, it is extremely rare in British wandmaking. However, those bonded to Kaya wands will find their abilities in logical arts, such as Potions, Astronomy, Ancient Runes, and Arithmancy, boosted.

Linden – Linden, or lime, has not been widely used in British wandmaking. However, German wizards have long favored it for its association with Freya (note: old Norse Goddess associated with linden), and most powerful German DADA wands are made of linden.

Madrona – A beautiful evergreen from the Pacific Northwest region of North America, it is rare in British wandmaking. However, its distinctive peeling bark denotes its magical powers of change- hence, a powerful wood for Transfiguration.

Mahogany – Mahogany is a good all-around wood, not particularly powerful in any one situation, but a good solid overall wood.

Maple – Maple is a good, sturdy wood, and a bit more magical than oak. It’s rather versatile.

Oak – Oak is a strong, reliable wandwood that helps with DADA and Transfiguration. However, its sturdiness means that it may take longer to learn new spells.

Pine – A quiet wood, not powerful, not weak. It is a softwood, and thus has a bit more yield, making it more inclined to a quick-learning but less powerful wand. It is, however, excellent for Divination.

Plum – Plum wood is not common in English wandmaking, however, it is a traditional Chinese wandwood that has gained favor in Central Europe. It seems to be much like applewood, if slightly more inclined to Charms.

Poplar – Although poplar is a light wood, it is sometimes found in the wands of Dark Wizards, who find its properties of being extremely similar to human bone desirable.

Redwood – This wood excels at all wand-based magic, but it rarely bonds to witches and wizards who do well in the non-wand-based arts. Don’t expect this one to make a good potion stirrer!

Reed – Reed is always delicate, and a difficult wand to work with. However, its wisdom and intelligence make it sought-after by some. It is almost solely a Ravenclaw wandwood.

Rosewood – Rosewood is graceful and will complement phoenix feathers, unicorn hair, veela hair, and fairy wings nicely. However, other cores end up at odds with the wood.

Rowan – Rowan gives a definite boost to Charms and Transfiguration, but is one of the most willing and reliable all-around wandwoods. It was commonly used for a bow-making wood, and carries this significance into being a good dueling wood.

Sequoia – Another American wood, this is not commonly used in British wandmaking. However, the great age of the trees gives them plenty of time to absorb ambient magic, and hence this wood is ideal for those both strong-willed and in touch with nature.

Spruce – Spruce is a good, reliable, standard wandwood. You can’t go wrong with it.

Sycamore – A relatively new wandwood, many of sycamore’s properties are as yet unknown. However, it excels at divining, and would help with Divination, Arithmancy, and Ancient Runes.

Vinewood – Vinewood is flexible, which one might think would denote a yielding wood. However, it tends to be extremely erratic, and it is a strong wizard or witch who overcomes the insecurities the wood holds to become successful with it.

Walnut – A beautiful, strong, and versatile wood. Unlike black walnut, it has no slant towards Light or Dark.

White pine - White pine is a unique wandwood, as it radiates serenity. It cannot be exhausted too much or it will strain and become quite fragile, but it is otherwise docile and easy to work with.

Willow – Willow is known as “the tree of enchantment”, and is hence quite favored for Charms. It also enhances healing magic, and is overall a willing, feminine wandwood.

Yew – Yew is a powerful wandwood. Due to its poisonous sap, it has Dark leanings, and is particularly good at Transfiguration.

Length[/b]
Between 7 and 15 inches. Length is mostly a matter of preference, although you will rarely see a 7-inch wand bond to someone who will grow to a large stature. (Note: I'm also using, with many thanks to Basil, this site for wand length now.)

Flexibility[/b]
The flexibility of a wand is generally a measurement of its willingness to work for its chosen Witch or Wizard. A witch with a whippy wand might learn spells faster than a wizard with a rigid wand, but the wizard with a rigid wand will have more spell strength once he finally masters it. Rigid and inflexible wands are the hardest to master, but dependent on their core and wood, can be the most powerful. There is also an element of material inherent- it is rare to find a whippy mahogany wand or a stiff reed wand.

The scale, from speed to strength:
whippy < easiest to learn and cast, least powerful
swishy
flexible
springy
sturdy
inflexible
rigid < hardest to learn and cast, most powerful

delicate – a special case. It takes special care to learn spells with this wand, but it is rarely extremely powerful. They tend to choose witches and wizards with somewhat frail personalities, and once a spell is learned, although it is not as strong, it is extremely reliable.


(From this lovely site)

Wand Flexibility[/size]
Pliable: Transfiguration. Easy-going but strong willed.
Swishy: Charms. Playful but Weak-willed.
Rigid: Defensive Magic. Headstrong and unyielding
Springy: Charms. Energetic disposition and Friendly.
Inflexible: Hexes and Curses. Willful disposition and doesn't back down.
Bendy: Divination. Flexible nature, open to new ideas and knowledge.
Brittle: Dark Magic. Insecurity, lack of self-confidence.
Supple: Good for protective and defensive magic. Kind and Protective.

Wand Features[/b]
Knobby: Earthy and Strong.
Smooth: Calm and Collected, Image minded.
Spiraled Shaft: Quick witted and Open-Minded
Bent Shaft: Quirky and Entertaining.
Decorated Shaft: Image/beauty Minded, Usually Ambitious.

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EDIT: Separating my own additions into a separate post, as they could grow quite lengthy and I was already down around 30k out of the alotted 60k remaining for the previous post. So the title post will be the mostly unedited information gathered from the other sites, while this post and possibly some future posts will be my own additions and the additions of any others who wish to assist. ^.^

Cores

• Banshee vocal cord
  This wand core is near legendary due to the elusive nature of the banshee on the whole; and the fact that they only tend to appear before victims. On the rare occasion that one is killed (as in the case of the Bandon Banshee, who was apparently defeated by a witch with a hairy chin), its vocal cords can be harvested as a powerful, though Dark wand core that tends to bind to a witch or wizard with a loud an overbearing personality. They excel in magic centered around air and sound, and thus tend to do well in Charm magic; as well as in the Dark Arts, due to the nature of the banshee. A backfire from a wand with this core can be very dangerous, and often times deadly.
  
  
• Diricawl feathers
  Diricawl feathers are a bit of a temperamental wand core that tends to easily startle and occasionally backfire (though not catastrophically) as a result, and thus aren't extremely ideal except for a witch or wizard who handles spellwork with extreme care and precision; though when mastered, they can be a good Transfiguration wand, particularly in disappearing spells. These feathers are also a difficult material to obtain due to the elusive nature of the bird itself; provided one is found and startled, however, a great abundance of these can be obtained when it vanishes in a puff of feathers.
  
  
• Centaur hair(s)
  Found mainly in European wands; and even here, they aren't overly common, due to the proud nature of centaurs and their refusal the be grouped in with less intelligent magical creatures. Generally centaur hairs can only be taken from a felled centaur (which causes their magical properties to decrease tenfold) a particularly agreeable centaur, or if the wand maker in question is particularly friendly with a centaur. A wand containing centaur hair generally only binds to Seers; as divination is rarely taken seriously as a magical art in modern times, these wands are very rarely seen anymore.
  
  
• Crup tail
  Crups, resembling small Jack Russell terriers but with a fork at the end of their tail, make an excellent wizarding pet, provided that wizard or witch isn't going to be having many dealings with muggles due to the dog's ferocious behavior towards the nonmagic community. Crup's tails tend to be docked when they are small puppies and, while this isn't an exceptionally powerful wand-core, it is well-rounded in and highly adaptable to almost any area of magic. However, it can act out if being used on a muggle, even for such benign reasons as healing magic.
  
  
• Cryophoenix feather
  The Cryophoenix is, as its name suggests, and ice phoenix that tends to remain in freezing climates year-round, migrating north in warmer months when necessary. While it is made mostly of ice, it is unexpectedly resilient, and its feathers therefore tend to make a wand core highly skilled in defensive magic; though it may be difficult to learn fire-based spells with, or defend against them. Unlike phoenix feathers, cryophoenix feather wands tend most often to excel in the hands of cunning and/or intellectual Slytherins and Ravenclaws, and are rarely seen among Gryffindor students.
  
  
• Erumpent horn fluid
  This is a highly experimental wand core, whether in crystalized or fluid form, due to the fact that it is quite literally explosive in nature. Most wand makers refuse to work with it at all, and only a daring few have successfully crafted wands with it, generally combined with some other core to help stabilize this temperamental core. This core would best be suited for a witch or wizard with very strong powers who are capable of controlling such a powerful substance, and must in all instances of use be coupled with a very strong wand wood.
  
  
• Firecrab jewels
  These are rare to be found in the core of a wand, but it has been known; as adult firecrabs grow very large, generally only the jewels from very young firecrabs are used, and thus it's also considered unethical by many (as the jewels can only be harvested by full removal of the shell, which kills the young creature). This type of core gives quite a spark to fire-based spells, and though it is generally used as a subcore it can still be used as a stand-alone core.
  
  
• Flobberworm
  Given that the flobberworm is one of the least dangerous and least magical of all magical creatures, any and all flobberworm-based cores tend to go into play-wands for children who are just looking to toss around a few pretty-colored sparks. They may also be used as cores for some trick-wands.
  
  
• Graphorn hide
  Graphorns are recognized for having even stronger hide than that of a dragon that can repel most spells. This makes their hide quite sought after for wands adept in defensive and shielding spells. This is a very strong core, and must be paired with a strong wood to stabilize the wand. Due to the difficulty in obtaining graphorn hide, thanks mostly to the strength of the graphorn and of the hide itself, this tends to be a rare and expensive material in wandmaking. It may be a common material in Aurors' wands.
  
  
• Griffin feather/tailhair
  The feather or the hair of a griffin in a wand is a rare find, both because the brute power of the griffin make them near impossible to gather materials from (except from one of very few who manage to befriend the creatures), and because these wands bind to a very select few people; generally, this type of person would be the archetypal Gryffindor. Griffin wands will bind only to those with great power and bravery and a bright future ahead of them; the type of people capable of befriending a griffin. Generally, the only witches or wizards who will have a wand with this type of core will be those who have already befriended one of these proud beasts and therefore have ready access to these materials.
  
  
• Jarvey tongue (special thanks to Basil for the idea x3)
  Being one of few magical beasts capable of speech (though this speech tends to be limited to insults and rude phrases), a wand with this type of core is likely to bond to someone of a talkative or social nature, and/or someone intensely sarcastic, witty, or out-and-out rude. Tends to be a good core for DADA work, particularly counter-curses.
  
  
• Lethifold thread
  This is an extremely rare, extremely Dark core for a wand, and will be found almost solely in the wand cores of Dark arts users. A backfire from this wand can be deadly, and the core will be weakened significantly for a period of time if its own spell becomes locked against a dueler using a Patronus Charm. Otherwise, this is a very powerful and very dangerous core that can be used only by adept witches and wizards, and tends to be sole confined to Dark magic (healing and protective charms may not work well with this core).
  
  
• Siren hair
  Similar to wands with a core of Veela hair, siren hair wands tend to be passed down through families with siren in their heritage. This, however, tends to be even rarer than the uniting of a Veela and a human, due to the fact that sirens primarily reside in water and their song leads most human travelers to certain death. Unlike other merpeople, however, they are capable of living on land (given they have legs rather than fish tails and can breathe air or water), but tend to grow depressed and listless if kept away from the sea for a lengthy period of time. If not to a witch or wizard of siren blood, these wands will bind to a person with a strong connection to the sea, and will excel in any magic related to sound or water; while they don't exceed in any one subject, they do well with a little extra effort from the user. There has been debate about the outlawing of this type of core, however; the controlling and entrancing properties of the siren's song carries over into any wand core of siren hair, giving them the potential to cast a very strong Imperius or Cruciatus Curse.
  
  
• Sphinx fur
  As rare as a griffin core wand, these wands tend to bind solely to the intellectual, witty, and the cunning; a Ravenclaw would be a common user of this type of wand, though they haven't been unknown to crop up in Slytherin now and again. Sphinxes can be even more difficult to befriend or tame than griffins, tending to act more on whim and fancy than the more predictable griffin; they will only respect a person as witty or intelligent as they themselves are, and may give up a bit of fur to a witch or wizard who can manage to stump them with a riddle.
  
  
• Yeti hair
  A rare wand core, due to the elusive nature and power of the Yeti. Yetis are most common in Tibet, so a wand with this type of core is likely to be imported or specially made. The Yeti is a strong and resilient creature that fears little except fire, so this wand will excel in nearly all fields except for fire-related spells.

Subcores
(These are cores that MUST be bound with another core in order to work; they add to the wand in some way, but aren't strong enough on their own to act alone as a core.)

• Bowtruckle bark/twig
  It already takes an offering in order to convince a bowtruckle to allow someone to take wood for a wand from their tree; it takes many offerings to convince one to offer you a piece of its own wood as a subcore. A subcore of bowtruckle can greatly enhance the properties that a wandwood already has, but can't be mixed with a wandwood that the particular bowtruckle isn't bound to; i.e. a twig from a bowtruckle protecting a hawthorn will only be of use with a hawthorn wand. Bowtruckle twigs and bark are only useful if they are willingly given up; taking a twig or bark without the permission of the bowtruckle (or killing one to get it) makes it poison, and will cause it to greatly detract from any wand it is paired with.

To come:
additions for heartstrings from Dragon subspecies
Angler Bulb
Ashwinder fangs/scales (rare)
Dugbog bark
Fwooper feather
Hippocampus scale (uncommon)
Hippogriff feather/tailhair (uncommon)
Imp skin (uncommon)
Kneazle hair (specialty)
Malaclaw teeth (uncommon)
Merrow/Selkie hair (uncommon)
Moke scale
Niffler fur (uncommon)
Nundu fur (rare) (dark)
Platypus tail
Porlock hair
Rainbow fish scale
Ramora scale (outlawed)
Winged horse hair (Abraxan, Aethonan, Granian, Thestral).
Peacock feather eye
Sea turtle tear
Black pearl (subcore)
Coral (subcore/decor)
Mistletoe (properties as a subcore)

Woods
Mistletoe - A special case. In rare cases, thicker mistletoe vines may be braided into a very delicate wand with the core(s) through its center; these wands tend more to be collector's items than used for any practical spell work, and this type of wand will often bind to someone with elegance and grace, but a feeble nature. Mistletoe can also be used in decorative wands; as it commonly grows from apple, lime, hawthorn and poplar, mistletoe grown from an apple tree would decorate an apple wand, from a lime tree would decorate a lime wand, et cetra, and would tend to bind to a person with a strong sense of compassion or romance. It can also be used as a sub-core to add properties of one of the woods it is commonly found on to another wand.

Peach - Peach, though the tree originated in China, is in current times popular in many parts of the world, and is thus readily available as a wand wood. It brings a sense of luck to those it binds to, and it tends most often to bind to those with a nurturing and protective personality, making it ideal for healers and DADA.

Sandalwood - Sandalwood isn't a commonly used wandwood, but it tends to bind to those with a natural flair for the subjects of Divination and Ancient Runes, as well as to those with a particularly calm and collected nature.

To come:
Avocado
Bamboo
Coral tree
Dragon tree
Fig tree
Mesquite
Palm tree
Rain Tree
Tumbleweed (anastatica)

(Will add to it gradually, and, as I said, I'll also be posting my own characters' wands as I develop them too.)

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Timothy's wands:
11" 1/4, Cypress, Basilisk Skin, Inflexible, Decorated (from 1927-1968)
11" 3/4, Aspen, Dragon Heartstring, Pliable, Bent (from 1968-death in 1974)

Timothy's first wand, as the core might suggest, was a family heirloom, which became his upon his birth; his father had never actually used it, and it was left hidden in the Gaunts' family home situated between Little and Great Hangleton when Morfin and his father were sent to prison. Marvolo Gaunt had, despite how he tended to spoil his only son, worried of Morfin's oddities, and that it might lead the boy in some way to corrupt this precious heirloom (or, just as likely, this was his excuse to keep the wand for himself).

It is quite light in color, made from a species of cypress native to the eastern Mediterranean region of Europe, Cupressus sempervirens, and features ornate carvings of snakes with emerald inlaid eyes.

(History of the wand will be subject to mild changes until I get it completely straight with Timothy; he was too lazy to dig up the records and was going on memory. As he also doesn't remember the name of the wand maker in question [except that he wasn't a member of the Ollivander family], I also had to make due with no name >.>)

This wand was crafted by an heir of Slytherin (and therefore a Parselmouth) from the sixteenth century who was a wand lore expert and wand craftsman by hobby; and a magical creatures enthusiast and eventual Care of Magical Creatures teacher at Hogwarts by trade. He specialized in experimental, rare, and custom made wands and, though he had a wand shop in Diagon Alley, it was only open in the summer months during his time teaching at Hogwarts and due to his travels. There was a wand shop owned by an Ollivander in this time period as well, and this wandmaker offered very little competition to Ollivander due to how rarely the shop was actually open and how temperamental many of his wands were. Witches and wizards tended to come to him if seeking a specific, specially made wand; where first-time wand users (making up a much larger customer-base) would go to Ollivander to be matched with a wand.

He decided upon the wood for this particular wand, the eastern Mediteranean cypress Cupressus sempervirens, while studying magical creatures abroad in Greece after leaving Hogwarts, mostly in search of the origins of the Basilisk, the creature whose scales he intended to use in a wand he was crafting for himself; he learned of the cypress' ties to the Greek god of the underworld Hades, and it felt ideal to him to bind with the core he sought; need I mention he had a certain fascination with death and the afterlife? He also met the woman who he would eventually marry here; he kept in touch with her through letters while at Hogwarts.

He eventually applied for the Care of Magical Creatures teaching position at Hogwarts, where he ultimately became the heir of Slytherin to open the Chamber of Secrets at this time; from his studies, he was certain that the monster of the Chamber was a basilisk created by Salazar himself, from which he intended to procure the core for this wand. In payment for the scales, he allowed the snake to roam the castle free for a few years. Cunning as they come, he managed to pin any petrification or death on a particularly unsocial student in his own house, and sealed the basilisk within the Chamber immediately after this student was expelled.

The summer after this student's expulsion, he took a second trip to study abroad in the Mediterranean region of Europe, where he procured the cypress wood with which he intended to craft his wand. In addition, he spent most of the summer convincing his future wife to travel back to Britain with him, and ultimately succeeded in this venture.

While it is said very little good comes out of users of Basilisk wands, this wand has proven itself to be an exception. Ten short years after he had crafted this wand (at the time, he and his wife had a son aged five-years-old and a daughter aged three), the craftsman learned of an alternate nature of Cypress; that is, the tendency of the wizard or witch who bonds to a Cypress wand to die a heroic death. (From HP wiki, sourced from Pottermore: Cypress is associated with valour. The great medieval wandmaker, Geraint Ollivander, wrote that he was always honoured to match a cypress wand, for he knew he was meeting a witch or wizard who would die a heroic death.)

It is interesting how this has happened throughout the ages with this particular wand. Likely because of the core, the wizard in question (or witch, in the case when there was no son to pass the wand on to) would often be known for dark doings; its craftsman became suspect of being the true harbinger of doom in the petrification and deaths of Hogwarts students when it was brought into public knowledge that he was indeed a Parselmouth and an heir to Slytherin, losing him much respect from his colleagues and a number of his students. However, the guilt he felt for these doings, as well as the constant reminder of this in the form of the basilisk's whispers, eventually led him to a hero's fate.

The basilisk missed its master; due much to his fascination with magical creatures on the whole, he had spent much more time with the basilisk than past heirs (who generally tended to use it only as a tool). The basilisk could still smell its master within the walls of Hogwarts and had no intent of letting him forget his overlarge serpentine pet. Though it had loyally agreed to remain in the chamber until called upon by the next heir, it began to make threats of returning to terrorize the castle again if its master didn't return. When the threats became very real in the form of yet another student dying, the wand craftsman decided it would be best to give in.

The craftsman, after quietly leaving his resignation in the headmaster's office and sending his prized wand home to be given to his son and kept within the family as an heirloom, descended into the Chamber and called the Basilisk there, where he pledged to remain with it until its own death; yet the only way to remain around so long would be to die himself. Having willingly looked into the eyes of the Basilisk, he returned to the castle as a ghost, in order to keep the beast at bay when the Chamber was closed and no living heir commanded it.

His wand, he chose to send to his family as an heirloom, for he considered it his finest work and refused to let it die with him. It eventually fell into the hands of Timothy Gaunt, who himself eventually died to keep the location of the Peverell Ring and Slytherin's Locket secret from Voldemort, though none but his own kin know of this act of heroism and he is in the history of his AU viewed even after his death as one of Voldemort's most loyal heirs who was likely killed due to some cowardly mistake. And thus, the legacy of this rather tragic wand lived on through another of its users; while likely to die a hero's death, they would tend to be known only for their dark doings.

This fate isn't definite for every heir of the wand; Timothy's son narrowly avoided dying young by fleeing to an old family home of his mother's side that Voldemort knew nothing of as soon as he finished Hogwarts (Voldemort was, at the time, bent on the eradication of the Gaunt family, both to procure the heirlooms he sought and to eliminate any possible competition or adversity).

Timothy's second wand was actually much better suited to his personality and strengths. The wood, Aspen, tends to denote an individual who is talkative and defiant (which describes him as well as it does his son), as well as one good in charms magic but not adept in healing magic. Timothy was quite good in charms among other subjects, where healing and defensive magic were generally a weakpoint of his (which was why he was never nearly as good in Occlumency, which tends to involve defending one's own thoughts, as he was in its opposite Legilimency). He tended to be best in powerful offensive magic, for which a dragon heartstring core is extremely well-suited. He spent scarcely little time with this wand, but had as strong a bond with it by the time of his death as he had developed with his first wand over a period of more than forty years. This wand was crafted by the Ollivander that the Marauder and Trio's generations knew.

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Morena Serran's wand
8" 1/2, Willow, Augurey Tail Feather, Supple, Spiraled (1914-death in 1930)

As far as I know, Morena had only one wand in her relatively short life. She was matched with it a few years before entering Hogwarts; and this wand was purchased from a skilled Irish wandmaker much less popular than Ollivander who was a friend of her father's family, whose knowledge in certain Divination related subjects (including some knowledge in legilimency and a talent for palm reading) helped in placing the exact right wand in the hands of any witch or wizard.

The length of the wand, average enough for her eventual stature as an adult, also places it precisely between the numbers eight and nine, eight considered sacred in Pythagoreanism because of its balance and nine considered unlucky for being one short of the "perfect" number ten. Morena tended to consider herself imperfect in the best of cases, not exceptionally adept in many forms of magic nor anywhere above average in looks or personality. Eight, given its shape, could also be representative of infinity, where another symbol for infinity is Ouroboros, often depicted as a snake biting its own tail; ironic in that Morena's animagus forum was that of a snake.

Morena's own insecurities likely in part led to her wandwood being Willow, which has a tendency to bind to witches and wizards with insecurities, whether grounded or not. It is also fitting to her wand core, which tends to bind to the misunderstood and those fit to excel in divination; while Morena didn't bother with divination in Hogwarts, she later in life found a talent in the related subjects of occlumens and legilimens.

Her wand was supple in flexibility more than anything for an underlying protective nature that was awakened in her mostly later in her life when she had something worth protecting; while the spiraled shaft of her wand denoted a wittiness and open-mindedness that had been with her for most her her life.

This wand was found by her grandson Alfred Gaunt, upon the coffee table in the den of the remote house in the mountains of Bulgaria he fled to in his period of self-exile in order to avoid Voldemort and his followers; as well as various other signs of her presence there at one time (having never known his grandmother, finding packages with her name upon them clued him in more than finding an unfamiliar wand; but he deduced that the wand likely had belonged to her from finding these things). He found this strange, given the house was supposed to have belonged to his mother's maternal family line, not his father's; and as far as he knew, there were no connections between the two families.

He later found beneath a heavy layer of dust on the same table an unsigned letter from her "master" which explained her presence there; that the old owner of the house, Jarvis Brooks by the writer of the letter, and the house was subsequently used as a base of operations for the hostage and servant Morena Serran to work from in procuring a certain artifact from the Gaunt family; and that she was killed upon her failure to do so. Alfred would later take the letter to Albus Dumbledore, not long before Voldemort's return to power in 1995, to learn the hand that wrote it was none other than that of Gellert Grindelwald. Morena's remains were found buried on the property in a shallow grave which appeared to have a large stone as a makeshift marker; Jarvis Brooks' remains were not found. Alfred subsequently kept the wand in his possession more as a keepsake than anything else, as he had no intent of using it; no living member of the Gaunt or Serran family is certain on exactly what happened to Morena.

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Anna Belinda Potter (later Annabelle Potts)
9", Sycamore, Centaur hair, Inflexible, Smooth (1938-death in 1976)

This wand was matched to a young Annabelle by Gregorovitch at the insistence of her mother, Belinda Brooks-Potter. Belinda had bought only one wand from Ollivander in her lifetime (after her first was broken by her son Marcus when he was very young), and it backfired strongly enough to land her in St. Mungo's for nearly a month a couple years after purchase. She since boycotted Ollivander herself. She lost in taking her son to Gregorovitch before he entered Hogwarts, where she had gotten her first wand (Belinda lived in Bulgaria for most of her life; her father was of half Bulgarian descent on his mother's side and half English on his father's side, hence their surname, and her mother's family had primarily resided in Bulgaria, making her three quarters; but she attended Hogwarts as a transfer student). Her husband insisted that it had just been bad luck and that Ollivander was normally an excellent wandmaker. Belinda, however, held true and stubborn, and made sure her daughter went to Gregorovitch instead when the time came. It was here that the wand in question chose an eleven-year-old Annabelle.

Her wand was nine inches, with nine being considered a symbol of wisdom and good leadership; two traits that matched the young girl quite well, as she likely would have been in Ravenclaw had a strong sense of resent for her father's favoritism of her older brother not landed her in Slytherin. Sycamore held strongly true to her favored subjects in Hogwarts, which were Divination, Ancient Runes, and Arithmancy incidentally; having always had a fascination with the unknown, she loved any subject dealing in it. Although she excelled in most subjects at school, these were by far her favorites.

The core of her wand gave a little trouble when she was being matched, because it was such an uncommon core and Gregorovitch had scarcely few of them in stock. It wasn't until he questioned the young girl in her specific interests and strengths in magic (at which, to her father's general groans of protest and her mother's swelling sense of pride, Annabelle proclaimed that she was going to be a Seer just like her grandmum in Bulgaria) that he thought to try her with a centaur tail hair wand, but it took to her instantly when he did (to her father's surprise and her mother's snarky told-ya-so's on the way out of the shop a few minutes later). The centaur hair in that particular wand came from a willing centaur befriended by one of Gregorovitch's material gatherers, who was not killed to have his tail hairs harvested, and thus is a more powerful core than a majority of centaur hair cores.

That the wand was inflexible was a subtle foreshadowing of the girl's eventual descent into the Dark arts; while it denotes someone of willful disposition, it is also excellent in hexes and curses. The contrastingly smooth shaft reflected a sense of patience and calm in her normally unspoken of in Dark witches and wizards, derivative of her skills in leadership which helped her become Voldemort's right hand after her ex-husband Timothy was killed for insubordination.

This wand was lain to rest with her remains after Voldemort sent her to kill her own children and, despite her best efforts (her loyalty to Voldemort at this point was unwavering; she'd have willingly killed herself had he asked it of her), she was slain by her son Alfred Gaunt, at the time in his seventh year of Hogwarts, a Slytherin and Head Boy, who proved then that his brief time delving in the Dark Arts had at least taught him not to hesitate even if the enemy is a close friend or family member; he killed her with a very indiscriminate avada kedavra once he had tricked her into thinking he was fully on her side and she was caught off guard.

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Alfred Gaunt
11" 1/4, Cypress, Basilisk Skin, Inflexible, Decorated (from 1959-?)
14", Aspen, Billywig stinger/Jarvey tongue, Pliable, Spiraled (from 1994ish-?)

Not terribly much to say here, since I covered this history of this heirloom wand in Timothy's. Alfred Gaunt, due to complications of having to go into hiding immediately after his time in Hogwarts ended, and then living as a Muggle in Great Hangleton after Voldemort had fallen, had not had any children by the year I've worked up to in his history (which would be around Harry's fourth year in Hogwarts, and his own niece's sixth year), and thus had no one to pass the wand down to yet; it will likely go to his niece if he never has children, or it and its tendencies for misfortune will be buried with him when he dies.

The wand is a little temperamental for him, because he doesn't exactly match perfectly to the qualities that it would prefer in a user. It preferred him when he was in Hogwarts and still working under Voldemort; but the basilisk core is still subservient to him if only because he is a parselmouth. He later lacks the ambition that the decorative shaft demands (though he is very image/beauty-minded, even a bit narcissistic in later life), though his will is strong enough to hold the inflexibility of the wand (and, given his nature as a practical joker later in his lifetime, the fact that it's good for hexes tends to come in handy as well).

The wand grows particularly temperamental during his time posing as a Muggle in Great Hangleton to keep out of the public eye, which lasted quite a few years, and it takes him a little time to calm it again when he moves to his old home in Ottery St. Catchpole (where he lived with his father and sister in his Hogwarts years) and takes it up again.

In the meantime, he purchases his second wand, which he ends up having specially made by Ollivander after an analyzation of his personality and strengths in magic on the whole (he insisted on rare and imported materials, which Ollivander doesn't keep in stock in his wands, so it was really the only way). His newer wand is...well, it's fitting to him. Aspen for the "defiant and talkative" attitude, and he's not bad in charms but not great in healing magic. The jarvey tongue and billywig sting give you an idea of just how troublesome he is later in life. The billywig sting almost denotes a little bipolar in how suddenly it can change. Even this is accurate, as he can go from perfectly friendly sarcasm to derisive and condescending satire in the blink of an eye; though the jarvey tongue denotes his ability to stay on the top of the insult chain regardless of whether it's light or serious. Its pliable flexibility shows just how much he lightened up from his once uptight teenage self in current times (though, as I mentioned, a bit of the condescending and snoody teen he once was still shines through occasionally) and also shows his strengths in Transfiguration (he's excellent at vanishing and conjuring spells). Spiraled shaft for quick wit, and showing how much more open-minded he is now. This wand wouldn't have had anything to do with him at all prior to the age of seventeen, when he left Voldemort's side and started lightening up the slightest bit; and it still would have been a begrudging match then. As he was in around the year 1994, however, it was quite a perfect match.