Hogwarts: Don't call me Wandmaker

Chapter 153 The Failed Wand

The more Garrick thought about his guess, the more likely it seemed.

After all, the eyes and fangs of a basilisk don't seem like things that can be given away casually; they can only be obtained on-site.

Oh, Merlin's beard...

Garrick felt a chill run down his spine and instinctively wanted to find Xilen and ask her for an explanation.

But by then, Siren had already gone upstairs and closed the door. Garrick hesitated for a moment, then gave up on the idea.

Fortunately, Xilun is alright. We can ask about the details later; let's leave it at that for now. What if Xilun accidentally sees the basilisk's eyes because I suddenly knocked on the door?

To be honest, although Garrick did not stop Siron from using the basilisk's eyes, he was still very nervous and dared not be careless in the slightest.

However, this was also due to Xilun's failure to explain clearly. In fact, when he closed the door, he summoned the unicorn's soul, which enveloped both his own and the basilisk's eyes within it.

In this way, even if he accidentally sees the basilisk's pupils, he will only be petrified. He can then be restored by being hit by the unicorn, so he is perfectly safe.

Setting the basilisk's eyes aside, Xiren took out the snakewood he had carefully preserved.

This was a Christmas gift that Xilun received last year. It already had runes engraved on it, and he was just waiting to find a suitable core so he could use it immediately.

That time is now.

However, because a section was cut off last time, this snakewood is now less than eleven inches long.

To be honest, this length isn't really suitable for making a wand, and the resulting wand probably wouldn't be very comfortable for most wizards to handle, but there's no other choice right now.

The grid-like patterns on the surface of the snakewood look exactly like the scales on a snake. When Siron placed it next to the eyes of the basilisk, the surrounding magic seemed to change.

Xilun could feel them attracting each other, like two snakes communicating and exchanging ideas, eager to merge together.

"Don't rush, I'll grant your wish now..." he said softly, holding the basilisk's eye with one hand.

As golden runes appeared on Xilun's wrist, a few minutes later, the basilisk's eyes, which had previously resembled crystals, turned into a stream of orange-yellow light.

Guided by Xilun, the orange-yellow light entered the staff and slowly flowed forward along the runes on it.

As the first rune turned completely orange-yellow, the snakewood staff suddenly began to tremble.

The whole process went much more smoothly than Xilun had imagined. In less than half an hour, all the runes were filled with orange light.

Then the wand closed, emitting a dazzling orange light.

The light was so dazzling that it pierced through the gaps in the curtains and door, and even Ollivander downstairs could see it.

He didn't care about anything else and ran upstairs quickly, pushing open Xilun's door.

“Silen, you…”

Ollivander was stunned. He saw a wand slowly fall from mid-air and be caught by Siron, with obvious magical ripples still flowing on the wand.

"This is...you succeeded?" Garrick's voice involuntarily became sharp, and he seemed even more excited than Siron.

But Xilun's expression was strange; rather than joy, his face showed more confusion.

But Garrick didn't notice this. He walked over quickly, lowered his head, and carefully examined the snakewood wand, scrutinizing every detail.

The staff is flawless, and the grid-like snake scale patterns now look almost real, shimmering with a jewel-like luster in the sunlight.

More importantly, the wand is soft. With a slight flick of his wrist, the wand comes alive and meanders, and with the patterns on its surface, the snakewood wand seems to have truly transformed into a snake.

But this change soon disappeared, and the snakewood hardened again.

“It’s quite a special fellow, isn’t it?” Garrick couldn’t help but say. He was reminded of the round wand from five years ago, and the two-foot-long, short stick-like wand from last year.

It seems only Xiren could make such a uniquely shaped wand... He doesn't know about others, but he certainly doesn't think he could.

I wonder what's so special about this wand, or if it's just a different design?
Garrick carefully touched the snakewood wand with his finger.

A strange feeling spread from Garrick's fingertips throughout his body. He could feel the emotions emanating from the staff... it was excitement, as if a creature that had been dormant for many years had suddenly been awakened.

But the next second, he suddenly frowned and blurted out, "No, there's something wrong with this wand. It's not finished yet!"

“Yes, it’s not finished yet…” Xiren muttered to himself.

He certainly knew, or rather, he already knew when Garrick Ollivander first came in.

[Snakewood, basilisk eye, 10 1/3 inches]

Status: Conflict, Incomplete

【characteristic:???】

That was all the information he saw, which explained his puzzled expression earlier.

But Siron thought about it many times; he hadn't made any mistakes in any of the steps he took to make the wand, so how could it be unfinished...?

Siren, refusing to believe it, picked up his wand and waved it.

"Lumos!"

A flash of yellow light appeared, followed by a loud bang, and a hole the size of a finger appeared on the floor next to the table leg.

Xilun's expression was rather unpleasant.

He clearly only used an illumination spell, so how did it blast a crater in the floor?

If that were all, it wouldn't be so bad, but the direction is wrong. His wand is pointing straight ahead, and the crater is further to the left.
Xilun tried again.

"Lumos!"

"Bang!" This time the hole appeared on the right wall and almost hit Garrick behind him.

In other words, this is a wand of chance; no one, including the user, knows what its magical trajectory will be or where it will ultimately end up.

"This..." Ollivander was dumbfounded.

Although he had noticed something was wrong, he hadn't expected it to be this outrageous.

The magic is out of control... This is a complete failure, and a very basic one at that.

Normally, this situation only occurs when there is an imbalance of magic between the staff shaft and the staff core. For example, if you mistakenly choose a staff shaft that has no magic at all.

To make a wand, you must choose wood imbued with magic, only then can the magic of the wand and the core resonate.

However, if you choose to make the staff body out of wood or the core out of ordinary animal hair, then the situation of the magic going out of control will occur as mentioned earlier.

But that's even more impossible; how could the eyes of the snake tree and the basilisk not possess magic?
Even the experienced Garrick Ollivander stood there blankly, unsure of what to say.
What was happening before his eyes was beyond his comprehension. It was like brewing tea, where every step was correct, the tea and water were all right, but when he opened the cup, he found that it was pumpkin soda.

A few minutes later, he suddenly came to his senses, turned around and went downstairs, arriving once again at that inconspicuous little door.

"I'll go check what's going on." He pushed open the door and went inside, saying, "Maybe this has happened before."

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(End of this chapter)