Chapter 0041 Not All Wood Can Be Called A Wand
After a beautiful lunch of this alternative to the wizarding world, Anne was curious and followed some strange wizards to discover this place, this place called Diagon Alley! Looks like this is supposed to be a dedicated bazaar for these wizards to gather and trade magical items?
Seeing this street full of exotic magic, Anne also had a refreshing feeling! Because, even in the Valoran continent, there doesn't seem to be a place where you can use magic in your life to reach such an extreme, and it has reached such a point where everything is too small, right? It's more of a mix of mages and other ordinary people, far from reaching a world like this where society is made up of pure wizards!
Look at the brooms that sweep the streets on their own, the shop signs that automatically attract customers, the books that fly and talk, the suitcases that follow their hosts, and the magicians that fill the streets? Sorcerer? This dazzled Anne! It turns out that magic can make life so much easier! How could she never have thought about it before!
What a strange wizard in this world! These alternative wizards, they actually use magic to hide themselves in places that ordinary people can't discover, so that the world of ordinary people and the world of magicians are completely separated! It can not only coexist without affecting each other, but also reduce a lot of unnecessary trouble!
And most of their magic seems to be used more for convenience, which is not quite like Valoran! As far as Anne knew, Valoran's magic was more focused on combat! Even Anne herself seems to practice most of her combat spells! Or some spells related to combat! There are still relatively few spells in terms of convenience for life! It can even be said that there are very few, very little!
When she was at the Leaky Cauldron, Anne was so focused on eating lunch and dealing with the struggling chocolate frogs that she didn't notice the hidden Diagon Alley! But when she noticed that more than two dozen people had emerged from the fireplace during the meal, and then walked around the corner of the Leaky Cauldron bar to the patio inside, Anne finally realized that something was wrong!
Because the patio over there is so small! There's no room for that many people! Well, there must be some hidden space inside! Thereupon! Under Annie's gold attack, the owner of the Leaky Cauldron, Tom Sr., humbly demonstrates to Anne how to find and open the door to Diagon Alley!
Shortly after arriving at this place called Diagon Alley, Anne was now in Ollivander's wand shop, and she was arguing with Mr. Ollivander over something, and the two were not convinced, and they were arguing with each other with red faces!
At first, Mr. Ollivander thought Anne had come to buy a wand! Although he also knew that this little girl's age seemed to be a little bit younger, and she was far from reaching the age of entering school! It stands to reason that you don't need a wand yet!
But there are always some people, those who are rich or aristocratic with family roots! It's not uncommon for them to have a wand ready for their child in advance so that they can get some magic in advance! Anyway, it would have been too easy for them to find a way to bypass the Ministry of Magic's surveillance of underage wizards!
After starting to receive this little girl's customers, the next thing made Ollivander feel that it was not so wonderful! Because this little girl named Annie has blown up more than a dozen wands from the beginning to now! You read that right! It's fried! If she counted the handles of the rods on the ground, she had already blown a dozen valuable wands into a pile of useless pieces of wood! Only those grips are still intact!
If they were ordinary children, the most they could do was to cause a burst of magic, or sparks, or lightning or something like that! But this little girl is very unusual! As long as the wand was in her hand, as long as she waved it as gently as he said! The wand exploded to crumbs in no time!
Actually, if it was just a little wand, Ollivander didn't think it was a big deal! After all, he made the wand himself! Blow it up, blow it up! At most, you can lose a little bit of the cost! But what he really can't stand is the little girl's ridicule of his skills! The taunt of the red fruit!
"You call it a wand, too? They're just a piece of rotten wood! Then wrap up a piece of magic material that is used to channel mana! What can this kind of thing be used for other than to conduct magic? There is no mana amplification! There are no spell enhancements! There is no inscription circle! There are no enchantments either! The difference between them is, at most, the conduction of magic is different, right? These are Anne's exact words! It was precisely because of this sentence that she completely offended Mr. Ollivander severely!
"What kind of broken kid are you? What can you know at such a young age? I can tell you! A wizard can't live without a wand! Because a wizard without a wand can't cast a spell! That's right! They are indeed what you say, they just have different conduction properties for different magical powers! Ollivander paused, took a breath, and continued.
"However, it is precisely because of their different conductivity that every wizard must find a wand that best matches their attributes and has the best conduction performance! That's the only way! Wizards can cast spells better and more smoothly! A wizard without a wand is not much different from a Squib! The little girl's words just now really hit the sore point in Ollivander's heart all at once! But he still stubbornly said it! The old man is so stubborn!
It's true that the wand he made doesn't have the effect of mana amplification and mana enhancement, but the good mana conductivity alone is already remarkable! You must know that even the legendary Dumbledore's Elder Wand can only cast a lot of mana, and the wielder can easily cast a lot of magic! That's all! To put it bluntly, the Elder Wand just has a better and more compatible magic conduction! That's what makes it easy to unleash powerful spells! This is in line with what Ollivanders has been working on for a long time!
Besides, the reason why he was so angry was because what this little girl said was so hateful! That's right! To put it bluntly, his Ollivander's wand, to put it bluntly, is really just a piece of wood wrapped in different magic materials!
For example: dragon heart tendons, dragon heart strings, dragon nerves, unicorn hair, baby hair, snake nerves, phoenix feathers, thestrals tail feathers and more! These different magic materials with different conductive properties are also different in the combination of logs, and they can be combined in pairs to make different wands! None of these wands are the same! Each wand has a different ability to induce each wizard's magic! This is the basis of his Ollivander existence!
It is precisely because of this that Ollivander will ask wizards to choose the one that best suits them and their own magic transmission from the massive wands he has made! If the wand doesn't match the wizard, the spell cast will be less powerful or won't be released at all!
Over the years, Ollivander has accumulated a wealth of experience in wand-making, and he is now able to make wands that are getting better and better! Coupled with his original exquisite wood carving skills, his wands are becoming more and more recognized by wizards! These things are his unique secrets! He has always been proud of the honor and faith! And now, his traditional craftsmanship has been refuted by a little girl as worthless! How could he not be angry when he heard this?
"Cut! What's the use of good conduction performance? Isn't it just a pile of rotten wood? Don't think you're so big wrapped up in a bunch of weird stuff! And who told you you you can't cast spells without a wand? I'm not unfamiliar with these things of yours! "Anne really doesn't like these short rotten woods! It's short and ugly! It's still fluttering in your hand, and you don't take advantage of it at all!
They weren't at all like those wands that Anne had imagined! In Annie's opinion, in addition to the most basic requirement of compatibility with magic transmission, the wand must also have a powerful magic gem or other things as an energy supply center, and after having an energy center, it must also be engraved with some protective or offensive magic or magic circle, so as to achieve simple spell casting or strengthen the power of spell casting!
This can be biased depending on the wand's energy attributes! For example, in addition to the increased spell power that normal wands have, the Ice Scepter tends to freeze! The Staff of the Void tends to break demons! Angel Staffs tend to increase mana and protection! Wait a minute! There are many more that I won't go into details! Only things like this can be called a wand! It's not like him with something strange wrapped in a piece of wood!
The reason why Anne walked into this store just now was actually because she was looking forward to it! Because the sign outside the door reads: "Ollivanders, a well-made wand since 382 BC"! This is a store that has been in business for thousands of years! I thought it must be amazing! The treasure of the town store should be at the artifact level, right?
But the result? Check it out now! What the hell did he Ollivander do? They only have one of the most basic mana conduction properties! And the conduction properties vary! And it will be different from person to person? To put it nicely, the wand selects the wizard, in fact, it is simply from a large number of unstable quality products to get the best match for the wizard himself! This can only fool the layman who doesn't know anything! Still trying to trick Anne? Hum! Don't even think about it!
Besides, she's never disdained to use a wand when she casts spells! I've always grabbed the fireball and smashed it like that! How convenient it is to use your hands directly! What more ghost wands? By the time they drew their wands, Anne would have plenty of time to smash out several fireballs!
Now, Anne, there's a wand made of Infinity Stones lying in her space pocket! Not only can it open shields, control souls, but also infinite energy! That's what it's called a wand! Not only can it enhance the power of the spell to a certain extent, but it can also be used to smash people if you are in a hurry! If Anne took out this wand, wouldn't it scare the stubborn old man to death? Oh! That's right! Now it doesn't seem to have infinite energy either! But it's still proper to control the power of the soul!
"Good, good! You're not uncommon! Then you go! Get out! I really won't sell you my wand, old man! Find yourself a wand that suits you! My shop is too small and doesn't have what you need! Let's go! I'm not a kid like you here! "Olidende was so angry that his hair stood on end, so he pulled down his face and started to chase people! It's the first time he's done this kind of thing to drive away guests after living for so long!
He doesn't care about the dozen wands he just blew up! He didn't do this business! Anyway, this is his exclusive monopoly business, and how much Ollivandri's wand sells for is up to him! Sooner or later, this cost will be recouped by him! The British wizarding world sells wands only to his Ollivanders, and there is no semicolon! Love to buy! Don't buy it!
Now he, Ollivander, gets angry at the thought of this little girl's words! A pile of rotten wood wrapped in strange things? What does this mean? He would never admit it! There will be no tolerance for such slander of his ancestral craft!
So, he's not just going to chase away customers! He also decided that he would never sell any wands to this little girl again! He already remembered that face of hers! If she wants to buy wands again when she's old enough to go to school, he'll let her buy them abroad! Anyway, he just won't sell it to her here! This is the confidence of monopoly! If you want to buy it, you have to beg him, an old man! Hey! The thousand-year-old store of Ollivanders really has this confidence!
"Humph! If you don't sell it, you don't sell it! It's just a pile of rotten wood! I don't even want it for free! Good bye! Anne also snorted back, she had just walked out of the store, and the door behind her immediately "banged"! Shut it down! It seems that she has been blacklisted as the least welcome guest at the Ollivanders Wand Shop!
Bah! If you don't sell it, you won't sell it! What a fierce one! There are so many quirks and funs to do, and Anne won't be missing his rotten wood wands! She plans to take advantage of the time to continue shopping and see what else is worth her attention!
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