- "Early in my career, as I watched my wandmaker father wrestling with substandard wand core materials such as kelpie hair, I conceived the ambition to discover the finest cores and to work only with those when my time came to take over the family business."
- — Garrick Ollivander[src]
The hair from a kelpie could be used to comprise the core of a wand, but was known to be a substandard core material.[1]
Wandlore[]
Kelpie hair was noted to be an inferior substance in wandlore.[1]
Known uses[]
- In his time as owner of Ollivanders, Gervaise Ollivander used to make wands of kelpie hair, which inspired his son Garrick Ollivander to be a wandmaker himself.[1]
Appearances[]
- Pottermore (First mentioned)
- Wizarding World (Mentioned only)
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film) (Mentioned only)