Hogwarts: Don't call me Wandmaker

Chapter 71: The Wisdom of the Elder Wandmaster

"Xi Lun, I'm afraid it's hard for me to give you any useful advice."

At 267 Diagon Alley, on the second floor of Ollivander's Wand Shop, Garrick Ollivander looked at the five wands placed on the table in front of him, a dazed look in his eyes.

Last year, Xi Lun made a magic wand with the Red Hat's heart nerve as the core. He was so surprised that he couldn't sleep for several days.

Now that wand seemed to be the most ordinary one.

Let’s take a look at the others…

A whole troll spine, a wizard's hair, a unicorn's soul, and something that I don't know what it is, but it's definitely not a good thing.

These things were simply crushing Garrick's cognition to the ground, then piecing it together again, and then crushing it again... This action was repeated four times.

But at this moment, Xi Lun asked him questions... How to shrink the troll's spine to the size of a normal wand core, how to quickly choose a wand shaft that matched the wizard's hair...

I do not know!

It's true that he has been making wands for nearly a hundred years, but he has never used such an outrageous material as a whole troll spine!
All the experience accumulated over centuries seemed to suddenly become useless when facing Xilun.

This also made Garrick always wonder what Xi Lun experienced in Hogwarts?
"Let's put everything else aside for now." Garrick picked up the wand on the table that looked the most normal, which he also thought was the most abnormal.

"How do you make a wand out of wizard hair?"

"Is there any problem?" Xi Lun asked, "Don't you also make a wand to fix a piece of Veela hair..."

"Even though it can become exactly like a witch, or even marry a wizard, a Veela is still a magical creature, and its magic is completely different from that of a wizard.

"It's not like I haven't tried to use wizard's hair, but every time I tried, I failed. Even my grandfather and my grandfather's grandfather never succeeded."

Garrick then went on to explain the reasons for the failure in detail.

The existence of the magic wand makes up for the lack of magic power of the wizard himself, just like two semicircular magnets, one positive and one negative, which form a complete circle when put together.

This is why most wizards can only cast magic with a wand, and only a small number of elites can make their magic power complete through continuous learning, which is the so-called wandless casting.

Among them, the magic of magical creatures is "negative", which is completely different from the "positive" magic of the wizards themselves. This can be seen from Hogwarts.

Hogwarts has magic that prohibits the Apparition Charm, but it has no effect on house-elves and phoenixes. This is the difference in magic.

The wizard's hair is naturally a "positive electrode", so how can two positive electrodes be put together?

After hearing Garrick's explanation, Xiren sat up straight in surprise.

"Wait, hasn't there ever been a wand like this before?"

"That's not the case." Garrick frowned and said, "The invincible Andrews, the core of his wand is his own teeth."

"That's fine." Xi Lun shrugged. "Anyway, I did make it."

"What's the effect?" Garrick asked anxiously.

"I don't know." Xi Lun thought for a moment and continued, "But I heard that Professor McGonagall used it quite well."

"What about the rest?"

“It’s very convenient for me to use.”

"Is that what I mean?" Garrick blushed and simply picked up the wand and waved it gently.

"Orchids are in bloom!" The wand shook violently a few times, and then a few sparks came out of the tip of the wand, almost burning Garrick's hair.

But Garrick didn't care at all, his eyes lit up like light bulbs.

"It is as I expected...but..." He sighed, his expression somewhat complicated, as if he had guessed it would be like this, but also a little surprised.

Although he was completely unable to use this wand, Minerva McGonagall could, which was already incredible. Moreover, the sparks just now were also a kind of magic.

"Is it because the magic reaction generated by the hair is not high?" Garrick almost put his eyes to the wand and said to himself:
"Coupled with your unique wand core magic, this catalyzes a completely new change in magical power."

He held the wand upright again, running his fingers over the shaft, tapping it lightly at regular intervals.

"I've never seen such a magical resonance before... It's just too monotonous... Oh, no, this is the key point... I see... This is amazing, an idea I haven't thought of before..."

"Xi Lun, can you lend it to me for a while?" Garrick couldn't help but ask.

"No problem, of course." Xi Lun came back to his senses and said with pursed lips.

Although Xi Lun had seen similar situations many times, he was still surprised by the wand knowledge that Garrick showed every time.

When making the core of the five-legged monster staff, it was the bamboo staff body recommended by Garrick. However, as far as Xilun could remember, he had almost never used this material.

As for the wizard hair wand core this time, although Xilun made it, he was not clear about the principle behind it.

Garrick only took a few minutes to figure it out, which means he must be a top wand maker.

Looking at Garrick with shining eyes, Xi Lun asked curiously, "Can you make a wand like this?"

"Not now," he said.

"So it's okay later?"

"Never again." Garrick turned his eyes away from the wand and said seriously, "The wand I make may not be suitable for everyone, but it will definitely not be for a fixed person."

"Of course, this is my insistence, not yours." He looked at Xi Lun and smiled, "You should find your own way, even if it is different from mine and all the Ollivanders, it doesn't matter."

Xi Lun didn't say anything. After a long while, he muttered softly, "You said that as if I would change it if you don't agree."

This time it was Garrick's turn to be silent.

"But grandfather, since you don't know how to make this kind of wand, why waste time researching it?" Xilun changed the subject.

"Grillotts goblins never think they have too much treasure, even if they have no use for it," said Garrick. "To me, wands are treasure."

Xi Lun nodded, not quite understanding, and then pointed to the other three wands, "What about these? I won't be using them during the holidays anyway, so I can lend them all to you."

"No need." Garrick said without hesitation, and at the same time the corners of his mouth could not help twitching.

He did like wands, but only if they were wands he could understand.

Just as goblins love treasure but dare not rob Dumbledore of the Galleons in his pocket, Garrick could not figure out how or what magic he could use to stuff an entire unicorn into the twelve-inch shaft of his wand.

This question could drive all wandmakers collectively mad.

In order to prevent himself from falling into endless confusion and mystery, Garrick Ollivander's wisdom and eighty years of life experience are telling him to give up this kind of thing!
The same goes for the remaining two, just give them to Xilun.

(End of this chapter)