With Pettigrew’s betrayal and Black’s innocence in the Potters’ deaths revealed, Black goes on to become one of the heroes of the series and a true father figure to Potter. Pettigrew was a former friend of Potter’s parents, and betrayed them to Lord Voldemort, leading to their deaths, before he transformed himself into a rat and hid for more than a decade, letting Black take the fall for the murder of his dearest friends.

After the trio disarms Snape, Black (Gary Oldman) uses Snape’s wand to transform what Weasley thought was his pet rat Scabbers into the treacherous Peter Pettigrew (Timothy Spall). Late in the film, when Potter and his two friends, Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) and Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint), corner the titular prisoner - Potter’s godfather Sirius Black - in the Shrieking Shack, Snape appears, having followed them there.

Snape carries this re-designed wand throughout the rest of the film series, but in Prisoner of Azkaban, it is most notable when it is not used by Snape. Master copies of the wands were made in wood, but copies for filming - such as this wand - were made of cast resin (or rubber, for stuntwork).

As wandmaker Garrick Olivander (John Hurt) says: “ The wand chooses the wizard.” Instead of the symmetrical, turned-wood appearance of wands from the first film, character and texture was added, and Snape’s wand was transformed from a severe, smooth, inky-black spike into the finely-crafted tool of a master potionmaker, with more to it than meets the eye. So, Bohanna, art director Hattie Storey and the art department came up with more detailed alternatives for the actors to choose from, some appearing more natural, and others more refined. When director Alfonso Cuaron took over from Columbus for Prisoner of Azkaban, he wanted the wands to look more intricate, and less like they came from Ikea, he told star Daniel Radcliffe. In the first and second films of the series (both directed by Chris Columbus), wand designs - including Snape’s - were kept simple by head prop maker Pierre Bohanna. The 13 1/2-inch polished-black wand features intricate simulated wizarding scrollwork along the handle and a smooth shaft. Click To Request A Pre-Sale Condition ReportĪn original cast resin wand produced for Alan Rickman as the antagonistic potions professor Severus Snape in the third installment of the billion-dollar fantasy film franchise, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Warner Bros., 2004).

Snape wand