Chapter Twenty-Three: The House of the Fairies

"Is it okay if I buy a wand from Ollivanders and sell it to a goblin?" asked Hugo, his eyes rolling.

"I'm afraid not, young master, new first-year students can only buy wands from Ollivanders under the leadership of teachers or teaching assistants, this cost is borne by Hogwarts, this is to take care of students from poor families, special preferential policies, and if you are not a freshman and want to buy or repair wands, you must get an identification certificate from the Wizarding Council, so that you can buy wands from Ollivanders"

Hugo and Knight Brown walked out of the woods as they spoke, and their vision widened, and Knight Brown habitually scanned his surroundings and continued in a low voice: " I heard that the wizards who could make wands were not the only Ollivanders, but because they coveted the profits brought by the goblin trade, they were finally forcibly arrested, and now only Ollivanders is officially protected and recognized in the sphere of influence of all white wizards, which also leads to his access to a stable supply of resources for the entire white wizard force, such as: dragon heart tendons, unicorn hair, phoenix feathers and other key parts of making wands, resources are stable, protected, These advantages of exclusive monopoly have allowed Ollivanders to obtain a lot of profits!"

I see! The Wizards' Council wants to strictly control the flow of wands and strictly prohibit other intelligent beings from using wands, so they must control the source, that is, the producer of the wand, which is the reason why the Ollivanders family is dominant!

"The other wandmakers, their skills are indeed not as good as the long-standing Ollivanders, and it is difficult to compete with Ollivanders without being able to sell wands to the elves, and they are all forced to close their doors in the end!"

Hugo's brows furrowed, and he thought of a question, and asked, "Then why don't the goblins make their own wands, or co-opt wizards who can make wands?"

The Brown Knight's expression became more serious, and he whispered: "The racial disadvantage of the goblins makes it impossible for them to make wands, and as for wooing wizards who can make wands... The Brown Knight looked left and right, and whispered: "That is equivalent to declaring war on wizards, I heard that the first Lich War was because the power of the goblins tried to control the production of wands, and the two sides had no room to retreat, which directly led to a war against each other, the tragedy of that battle was unimaginable, the tribe of goblins suffered countless casualties, and the casualties of wizards were unbearable, many wizard families were destroyed, and a large number of witchcraft have since lost their inheritance." ”

"Before the Lich Wars, the inheritance model of the wizarding world was dominated by the model of master and apprentice and family, and the transmission of knowledge was very narrow, and in the event of such a large-scale war, it was very easy to lead to the formation of a fault line in the inheritance of knowledge, and long after the end of the first Lich War, a great wizard began to realize that there were huge drawbacks in the previous inheritance model, and he united with several other wizards with advanced consciousness to found Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."

Hugo showed a shocked look, it turned out that Hogwarts was founded in this context, Hugo couldn't help but ask, "Then who was the wizard who first realized the disadvantages of knowledge inheritance?"

"She's the cornerstone of Hogwarts!"

It turned out to be her! The most lazy-looking lord did not expect such boldness! At this time, Hugo suddenly felt a little strange, the origin of Hogwarts is not like the news that can be heard in the tavern or the alley, how did the Brown Knight know so clearly?

"Brown Knight, how do you know these things? Is it possible to find out this kind of news in the Tomahawk Bar?" asked Hugo curiously.

"How is that possible! When the old master was alive, he occasionally talked about some things about wizards, so that I could know a little bit about the secret things about the wizarding world. ”

So that's it!

The master and servant talked as they walked, and now they were slowly approaching the village, and the people around them gradually increased, and they were not far from the destination of this trip.

"Where's the black market?" Hugo asked the Brown Knight in a whisper.

"Young master, we passed by there when we first arrived here, and I also found out later through inquiry" The Brown Knight walked forward with Hugo, and entered the crowded alley, and gradually a crooked and simple two-story building appeared in front of it, and a sign was hung on the door of the building, which read:

Fairy House!

Seeing this sign, Hugo's heart suddenly felt a little strange, and he couldn't help asking: "Since there is such a strong conflict and hatred between goblins and wizards, how can they still blatantly trade on the territory of white wizards?"

"After all, the Lich War has not been short, and the goblin race is a typical race where interests are paramount, not to mention that the final result of that battle was the defeat of the goblins, and the wizarding council forced all goblins not to use magic wands, and violators were executed on the spot!

"With such a prerequisite, and now the White Wizard really needs a trading channel to acquiesce to the existence of the Fairy House, otherwise how dare they open a shop in the White Wizard's base camp!"

At this time, the Brown Knight suddenly paused, organized the language, and continued: "However, there have been rumors recently, saying that the goblins want to make wands and immortal, and now all tribes have the idea of making a wand, and I don't know if it's true or not, but young master, we would rather believe it or not, or not have too much contact with the goblins, so as not to be implicated when we get it." ”

Hugo nodded lightly, he also felt that these goblins were very troublesome, with the goblin's thirst for wands and the wizard's occupation of resources, the contradiction between the two races was bound to become bigger and bigger, and the probability of another big war was slowly increasing, maybe when the second Lich War would start, and it would be difficult for all wizards to be alone, even Hugo was no exception!

The two of them stood in front of the fairy house, but they didn't enter through the main entrance, listening to the Brown Knight say that the main gate was completely a cover-up, and what they saw when they went in was all ordinary things, without the dragon skin that Hugo needed.

Brown Knight took little Hugo and turned into a small alley next to the fairy house, the alley was very narrow, and it looked very dirty, like an alley where homeless people often urinated, and the smell was very uncomfortable.

At the end of the alley, there is a sunken stone corridor, and at the end of the corridor is a black gate, on which is depicted a dark red special goblin, which is a little taller than a normal goblin, with red pupils and red skin, and seems to burn with blazing flames on it. It's a painting, but it looks like the real thing!

At this moment, the red goblin on the wall suddenly rolled his eyes, looked at the Brown Knight very strangely, and then lowered his head and stared at Hugo with interest.