Hogwarts: Don't call me Wandmaker

Chapter 87: Transformed Lizard Skin Bag and Another Use of Dragon Blood Wood

The translucent, dried, deformed lizard had been kept in a box. When Xiren took it out, it was still the same as when he saw it that night, without any change.

If you put it in the sun, you can see faint runic patterns on its back.

If it were used as a wand core, it would surely make an excellent Transfiguration wand. Even if it wasn't as dazzling as Silver Mane, it would at least be as dazzling as Professor McGonagall's hair. Xi Lun had no doubt about this.

But Xilun didn't intend to do so. To him, this deformed lizard had a more important use.

Xi Lun sat in front of the window, took out the mandrake juice that he had just bought from next door at a high price, and carefully dripped it into the deformed lizard's mouth.

Like ink dropped into water, the gray-brown mandrake juice began to spread rapidly, covering half of the original color of the deformed lizard in the blink of an eye.

At the same time, the shriveled body began to swell, and after a few seconds it fell lightly into Xilun's hand. At this moment, it had completely changed its appearance. The wrinkled gray-brown surface had no luster, and it looked no different from a candy bag.

Uh...it has similar uses.

The deformed lizard skin bag (roughly processed version) is a very practical thing in the magical world. It looks like a small pocket from the outside, but it can store quite a lot of items and has strong storage capacity.

Later, wizards invented the famous Traceless Extension Spell based on this characteristic.

This is just preliminary processing and can only be used to store things. If you can find a reliable alchemist to help, you can also ask him to help guide the shapeshifting lizard's talent for sensing magic.

At that time, only the owner himself can take out the things inside. The security level is second only to the Gringotts vault, and it can be regarded as a portable vault.

But just like Gringotts can be robbed, the Transformed Lizard Skin Bag is not absolutely safe. If someone can forcibly destroy the bag, they can still take away the things inside.

But this depends on the ability of the alchemist.

Xilun currently doesn’t know any good alchemists, and he doesn’t need this function, as long as he can store things.

He already carries a lot of wands, and there will probably be more in the future. He can't just put them all in his pockets.

Not only is it troublesome to find, but it is also inconvenient to walk because of the clanging sounds. If you have a deformable lizard skin bag, this problem can be solved very well.

Xi Lun hung the newly made deformed lizard skin bag around his waist, lifted the troll wand on the table and placed it on it.

Without any hindrance, the two-foot-long wand was put into the fist-sized bag. Xiren tried to move it, and it seemed that even the weight had weakened a lot.

nice one.

Xi Lun put all the other wands in his pocket into it, leaving only the silver-bristled one he usually used. Although the weight was not reduced much, he felt much more relaxed.

It is also very convenient to take them out, because when you put your hand into the leather bag, it will shrink, so Xiren only needs to remember the location of those wands and can take them out in the shortest time.

After practicing for a whole morning, Xi Lun was able to use it skillfully. He could change a wand by just wiping his hand from the leather bag.

Unfortunately, the bag shape is not the most convenient. It would be better if it could be worn directly on the hand.

Thinking of this, Xi Lun subconsciously looked at a round bamboo ring next to the table.

This was the bamboo staff he had prepared for the Transfiguration Lizard. His grandfather Garrick believed that this type of staff was most suitable for Transfiguration.

If the shapeshifting lizard wand core could retain its original properties, Xiren could wear it on his wrist like a wand.

But after hesitating for a night, Xilun temporarily gave up the idea.

The characteristics of a magic wand are unpredictable, and Xilun doesn't want to take risks until he is absolutely sure.

This was another reason why he didn't look for an alchemist.

Natural mandrake juice wouldn't affect the transformation of the lizard into a wand core, but if it had been processed through alchemy, that wouldn't be the case. The next day, Xi Lun bought another roll of magic tape and, under his grandfather's puzzled gaze, carefully taped the lizard skin bag to the inside of the wide cuff of his school uniform robe...

"Is this necessary?" The old wandmaker asked in confusion. "School is about to start. Are you going to encounter any danger there?"

"It's hard to say." Xi Lun shook his sleeves. It was okay, and it was stuck quite firmly.

"But you don't usually use other wands."

"It's just that it's not needed now, but maybe it will be needed in the future."

"By the way, I've always wanted to ask you, did you really pick up that deformed lizard?"

"Of course." Xi Lun said, "It's impossible for someone to give me such a valuable thing for free."

"I still find it hard to believe." Garrick's eyes were full of questions.

He had lived in Diagon Alley for decades, but how come he had never picked up a shapeshifting lizard? He had never even picked up a silver Sickle.

"Don't worry, I really found it in Knockturn Alley." Siren said casually, "Isn't the Ministry of Magic investigating Dark Magic items these days? Many people from pure-blood families go to Knockturn Alley to sell things. Maybe they dropped it."

"What if someone comes looking for us?"

"No one will come looking for us." Xi Lun said without hesitation.

"Unless those six people also made Horcruxes." He added in his mind.

But Garrick obviously misunderstood. He thought Xi Lun meant that the wizards from those pure-blood families did not dare to let others know that they had been to Knockturn Alley.

"Well, you're about to start school anyway," Garrick sighed. "Here's what you wanted. It was delivered just an hour ago."

He placed a brown paper bag on the table.

Xi Lun couldn't wait to open it, and inside were more than a dozen dragon blood trees of different sizes.

"Why did you ask me to buy this for you?"

"Of course it's for making wands. It can't be for burning in the fireplace." Xi Lun said. He picked up a piece of dragon blood wood and took a look. Judging from the grain of the cross section, it should be more than fifty years old. The others are similar and there is no inferior product.

"But dragon's blood wood isn't suitable for making wand shafts," Garrick said. "It's too active, and often has intentions that are completely opposite to the wizard's in battle. This is a fatal flaw for a wand."

"This can also be its advantage." Xi Lun said, he took out a book "The Magical Combination of Potions and Wands" and opened a page.

"It says here that under certain conditions, the wand body can guide the magic power of the wand core."

"No, it should be suppression." Garrick blurted out.

"Not all," Xi Lun said. "Just like unicorn tail hair is best suited for casting healing spells, dragon heartstrings have a special liking for fire magic, and this characteristic cannot be suppressed by the body of a wand."

"But then, a wand using Dragon Heartstring can only cast fire spells," Garrick asked. "Isn't a wand that can only cast one spell a failure?"

"Yes...but also no," Xiren said with a smile. "At least not for me."

He raised his arm and glanced at the deformed lizard-skin bag clinging to his wrist.

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(End of this chapter)