in a regular email.Most of the
information for wands transfers directly over to staffs.
(Yes, some people say 'staves'.) Your assignment
for Lesson 4 is to answer a series of questions.
There is no 'right' answer; just reply as you really feel
and/or think, giving reasons for your answer if you want
full credit for the answer.
Keep in mind, when answering the questions, that
generally a wizard might have only one or two staffs
in their lifetime; they are larger, harder to break and
do not get left in back pockets to be sat upon. They
are also not particularly something that is handed
down through a family (ie as what happens when a
wand might be 'up-graded' or replaced and a younger
sibling then gets the cast-off).
For full credit for each answer, you
must write a minimum of 100 words.
1. (5 points) Does size have anything to do with
magical ability? Is there really more power stored
in a staff than in a wand?
2. (5 points) Which came first, the wand or the staff?
3. (10 points) Which woods would be more suitable
for a staff -- are any to be excluded from the list?
Why do you say that?
4. (10 points) Lately, with the many movies about
wizards and witches, there are staffs represented
as being upside down, with their 'roots' in the
air and the trunk, the part that grows skyward,
used as the foot of the staff. Is this a Muggle thing
or do they really work that way? What do you think
would be the proper orientation to holding a staff
-- root side down or root side up? Why?
For full credit for each answer, you
must write a minimum of 100 words.
1. (10 points) Let's say that Albus Dumbledore had
a staff of wood (we're pretending that he had one.
For all I know he might have had one for use in his
travels). From what kind of wood was it made?
How long was it?
2. (10 points) The popular thought is that power is
available through a staff or wand. How is this possible?
Is power 'stored' in the physical form of the wand or staff?
Or is power focussed 'through' the wand or staff, from a
non-corporeal (ie: non-physical) source? Or a combination
of both? Discuss.
3. (10 points - 5 points per part)
a) Which would
you rather have, if limited to one, and out in the
wilderness -- a wand or a staff?
b) Same
question, but in a town?
