The Question That Rowling Feared
Before the release of the final book, Rowling was afraid that people would ask her what Dumbledore’s wand was made of.
“That would have been quite a telling question,” Rowling told Time. “Because I had this elder thing in my mind, cause elder has this association in folklore, it’s the death tree. I thought, ‘What am I going to say?’” Thankfully, no one ever asked.