It is not until Harry again speaks with Mr. Ollivander at Shell Cottage in chapter 24 of Deathly Hallows that readers get any further explanation. First, Ollivander describes that wands can ...

The vast majority of these wands are manufactured by Mr. Garrick Ollivander (Sir John Hurt) in Diagon Alley, whose family has been making wands for millennia. Though most characters have one ...