Chapter 108: Ollivander Expectations
"Yes! That's great! Bruce was very excited to hear this, he had only been getting some materials for Ollivander before, and he was not really involved in the wand making. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info Now that Ollivander has allowed himself to carve the body of the staff, it is enough to show that his skills are beginning to mature.
Just do it!
Bruce immediately brought the wood that Ollivander had marked to the table, pulled out his carving knife, sat down, and carefully began to carve the wood.
Bruce's hand didn't stop, and after noon, the master and apprentice didn't mean to get up, until in the evening, after Slruth carved the last wand, he realized that it was already dark outside, and he had sat here all day!
"Ahh Bruce stretched and got up to move his stiff body, looked at the four wands on the table, and said narcissistically, "My skills are really good!" ”
When Bruce looked at Ollivander's workbench, he wasn't there. Just as he was about to leave the studio, Ollivander walked in.
"Teacher, why did you go?" Bruce asked curiously.
Ollivander said, "I'll ask Tom to bring me some food, come here!" ”
Bruce smiled, and Ollivander genuinely cared about him, despite his dead face. The two of them arrived at a small restaurant at the back of the shop, where food was already on the table. Ollivanders, who was eating, suddenly said, "Remember the idea you mentioned in your letter?" ”
Bruce hurriedly put down his knife and fork and said, "Of course, you found a way?" Teacher! ”
During school...... It was after making Ron's wand that Bruce wrote a letter mentioning some ideas about the wand, which he had told Hermione to make it smaller and more secretive, but not to diminish its magic.
Ollivanders is not a rigid person, in fact, the people of the Ollivanders family are enlightened when it comes to making wands, they uphold the tradition and each generation of inheritors will make changes to wand making, otherwise the wands of the Ollivanders family would not be unique in the wizarding world!
"I'll make two of these wands!" Ollivander said.
"What?" Bruce was surprised and said, "The result? ”
Ollivander shook his head helplessly and said, "No! The first wand was just downsized, very unruly to use, and the magic became a mess! The second one made some changes in the shape, but the magic pattern could not be carved, so I tried to forcibly carve the magic pattern, and the magic leaked and the wand exploded! ”
"Ahh Bruce hurriedly asked, "You're not hurt, are you?" ”
Ollivander said, "No! Afterwards, I checked the family's information, but I couldn't find a suitable way! ”
Bruce said helplessly: "If you can stump the teacher, it is estimated that there is no one in this world who can solve this problem!" ”
"No!" Ollivander looked at him and said, "You can! ”
Bruce was stunned for a moment and smiled, "You really think too highly of me, teacher!" ”
Ollivander said, "No! What I'm saying is true! I've reached this age, and I may not be able to figure out the answer for the rest of my life with limited energy. But you're different, you're still young, you're going through a lot in the future, and you might be able to find a solution from these experiences! This is the key to our Ollivanders family's survival to this day. Do you know what magic used to look like? ”
Bruce said, "I've seen it in the library, and I can do magic with chanting!" ”
Ollivander nodded and said, "That's right! Before the Middle Ages, a spell usually took a few minutes of chanting to cast. A young man was inspired to light a bonfire with a match, why couldn't he make a tool that could be as fast as a match to light a campfire without diminishing the power of a spell! He is the ancestor of our Ollivanders, the one who made the world's first wand! Generations of Ollivanders will make changes to wands! ”
Then Ollivander looked at Bruce, a hint of expectation appeared in his eyes, and said, "You are my disciple!" Why not try to find your matches, just like the ancestors of the Ollivanders! ”
Bruce hurriedly stood up, bowed deeply to Ollivander respectfully, and said movingly: "Yes!" Teacher, I see! I won't let you down! ”
This is the first time that Ollivanders confided in him for the first time, although he is not a member of the Ollivanders family, but in Ollivanders' eyes, Bruce is the same as his child, and he hopes that Bruce can break through and even surpass him!
Ollivander smiled rarely, took out a small notebook from his pocket and handed it to Bruce, saying, "Here are some of my own ideas, I hope it will help you find a solution!" ”
Bruce hurriedly took it and put it in his pocket!
After dinner, Bruce cleaned up the shop and left the wand shop. Back at the Leaky Cauldron, he said hello to Bruce briefly, and rushed into his room under Tom's curious gaze. Bruce sat down at the desk, opened Ollivanders' notebook, and looked at each letter intently.
These ideas were supposed to be some of Ollivander's thoughts after the failure to make the wand, and they didn't look messy to sort out, but Bruce still found useful information in them.
In the notes, Ollivander made a hypothesis, but next to this hypothesis he wrote another sentence: "Hardly successful!" ”
Ollivander proposed that the key to changing the shape and size of the wand is the magic pattern, the core of the wand does not affect the embedded wand, the unicorn hair, the phoenix's tail feathers, the snake's nerves, the material itself is very small, so Ollivander proposed that if the arranged magic patterns can be reduced, so that the volume of the wand can be changed at will.
But wizards know that this is impossible, because the source of magic is the magic pattern, and any magic will have no effect on the magic pattern, just as you can't use one bowl of water to reduce another bowl of water. But Bruce picked up his pen and drew a big greeting next to the passage.
As Ollivander said, Bruce is still young, and he will go through a lot in the future, and maybe he will find a way out of these experiences. Bruce remembered an old Chinese saying: "The stone of the mountain can attack the jade". Since magic doesn't work, he will switch to other means, but for him now, it is still unknown what these methods are!