Hogwarts: Don't call me Wandmaker

Chapter 68 Dragon Blood Wood

Xi Lun was very distressed. Last night he made a bold decision - to build a new home for the poor Voldemort fragments that could shelter them from wind and rain.

In other words, he wanted to make this fragment of Voldemort into the core of the wand.

Xi Lun knew that his decision might be very risky. If he was not careful, he would become lunch for the Dementors. But what if it succeeded...

Xi Lun had this idea a long time ago, probably when he was seven years old. He first discovered that he could make many impossible things into wand cores, and then he thought of Voldemort. One day when he was basking in the sun after a full meal, another problem arose.

Before his resurrection, was Voldemort considered a wizard or a magical creature?

Originally, this was just a question he came up with to kill time, and Xilun didn't really want to get an answer.

But now Xi Lun suddenly found that the opportunity to verify the conjecture had come, and he got a piece of Voldemort's fragment.

Who can bear this?

In addition to having some skills and experience in making wand cores, Xilun has another advantage.

He is a student at Hogwarts.

That’s right, this identity that almost all wizards have possessed is also his greatest confidence and advantage now.

If he messed up, he would go to the headmaster and confess immediately. Dumbledore would never watch a first-year student like him being taken to Azkaban by the Aurors.

Although it's a bit shameless, it works. Even if you get fired, it's better than living next door to Dementors.

What's more, if he succeeds, it means he has found another way to eliminate Voldemort, which is a contribution to the wizarding world.

So after hesitating for a third of a second, Xilun made a decision and began to choose a suitable rod body for the fragment.

Only after actually doing it did Xilun realize that this step was much more difficult than he had imagined.

He first used the hair of a unicorn's tail to weave a net bag, put the fragments into it and hung it in the air, and then placed various different materials for the staff around it.

When he woke up the next day, he found that all the staffs, including the Whomping Willow, were completely destroyed. They were either frozen hard or withered and corroded by the fragments.

Xi Lun was heartbroken. That was the only remaining piece of Whomping Willow. Although it was not big enough for a standard wand, it was still sad to see it was scrapped like this.

Fred and George were nearly beaten to death over it.

This also led to the situation that the next day, when everyone was discussing Harry's heroic deeds, only Xi Lun was standing by sullenly.

No one knew who had leaked the entire story of the battle between Harry and Quirrell in the dungeon, and it spread throughout Hogwarts overnight.

Even in yesterday's Quidditch final, many people were not paying attention to the game, but were discussing with their friends in the audience how Harry defeated Quirrell.

No one mentioned the fact that he had been deducted 200 points some time ago, and people rushed to the school hospital to send gifts and candies.

Ron also became the focus of everyone. He would repeat at least eight times every day how he won the game of chess and never felt bored at all.

"I really don't understand what's so great about these things."

When Ron was once again talking at length in the common room, Fred and George, who had just been discharged from the hospital, could not help but walk up to Siren and said, "I've heard five versions of this story, each one more exaggerated than the last, as if those chess pieces were thirty feet tall."

"Hmm..." Xi Lun responded perfunctorily.

"Should I try snakewood?" he thought to himself, but he couldn't quite make up his mind. Voldemort claimed to be the heir of Slytherin, and Slytherin's wand was snakewood... From this point of view, his fragment and snakewood were indeed a good match.

But this was just Xi Lun's idea... There were too few snakewoods, and unlike the Whomping Willow, the Whomping Willow was right in Hogwarts. Although it was not easy to get, there was always a chance as long as he was not expelled.

But if the snake wood was wasted, it would be difficult to find a second one. Even the snake wood he received was only twelve inches long, and he had to think twice before cutting off a small piece for testing.

And the most important point is that the snake wood may not be able to withstand the coldness naturally emitted by the fragments.

"Why don't we ask a ghost how to solve this problem?" Xilun muttered softly.

"Why did you say you were looking for a ghost?" Fred asked Xiren, who was talking to himself, in confusion.

"Ah, nothing." Xi Lun shook his head. "It's just that when I pass through the ghost, I feel cold all over. I just want to ask if there is a solution."

As if they had thought of something, the Weasley brothers shuddered at the same time.

When they were in class before, they had experienced passing through the body of a ghost. The feeling was so scary, just like soaking in a black lake on a snowy day, as if even the blood was frozen.

They even invented an air-conditioning cloak, but unfortunately its sales were dismal. Even in the hottest summer, wearing it would make people shiver with cold.

"Don't even think about it. This is a characteristic of ghosts. Even warming spells won't work on them. The best way is to put a burning fireplace on them." George said.

"Will they stay warm this way?" asked Siren.

"No, this way they'll be more conspicuous," Fred chuckled. "It reminds you to get away quickly if you see them from a distance."

Conspicuous, fireplace...wait a minute.

Ciarán stood up suddenly, ran past the Weasley brothers quickly, and then returned to the dormitory.

He suddenly remembered that he seemed to have a "fireplace" as well, a fireplace that could be put on a ghost.

"found it!"

Five minutes later, Xi Lun finally found a special piece of wood that was well kept in the innermost part of the suitcase.

The 1,300-year-old dragon's blood tree was one of the gifts given to him by his grandfather Garrick Ollivander before school started, but Xi Lun had never been willing to use it.

The special nature of Voldemort's fragments makes it almost impossible for Xi Lun to find a wand with the same properties that can perfectly match it. In this case, why not choose a completely opposite partner for it to check and balance each other?
The dragon blood wood that grows in the fire dragon's lair can almost be said to be watered by dragon flames and is naturally not liked by ghosts. This is why Xilun has never taken it out.

There are a lot of ghosts in Hogwarts. If he carries this thing with him, he will definitely become the public enemy of ghosts.

But now he can't care so much.

The first step was a basic adaptability test. Xi Lun broke off a piece of dragon blood wood and placed it next to the Voldemort fragments in the net bag. After thinking for a while, he gritted his teeth and split off a half-inch snake wood and placed it on the other side.

Afterwards, Xi Lun rubbed his hands and left the dormitory.

If it doesn't work next time, he can only consider letting the unicorn hit it again to try to reduce the "Voldemort" content in the fragments.

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(End of this chapter)