Soaring at Hogwarts

Although the process was a little tortuous, Ian finally got the right to enter Ollivander's Wand Shop.

After the Christmas holidays, he began to go to London every day to work for Mr. Ollivander.Mr. Ollivander gave him seven Sickles a week.

Work in the shop was easy. Mr. Ollivander never asked Ian to clean the dust. Most of the time, Ian was reading his assigned books.

The real job of an apprentice is just to use the knowledge you just learned about identifying wood to sort the newly delivered wand wood into categories - Ian can bet that Mr. Ollivander can do this with a wave of his wand.

There is also the matter of following Ollivander, watching him make wands and learning various practical knowledge.

It's not the days before school starts. Without the little wizard, the business in the store is always very sparse.

However, occasionally wizards will come to the door and complain that their wands are not working well and do not work well.

In this case, wizards often choose to change their wand.

such as--

"Thank you, Mr. Ollivander."

"If you think better of it one day, you can come back and get your wand."

"I hope so."

A burly wizard limped out of the wand shop.

He lost a leg during a spell experiment, and although he was treated at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries, it still left traces.

After being discharged from St. Mungo's, his wand stopped working.

The wizard thought the magic experiment had damaged the wand, but Mr. Ollivander didn't think so.

"Beech wood, wand, fourteen and a half inches, hard and lustrous." Ollivander stroked the wand and asked the examiner, "Beech wood, what are its characteristics?"

"Beech wood is heavy and hard, with silver-white patterns on the diameter." Ian recalled the notes given by Mr. Ollivander, "'A person who is truly suitable for a beech wand, if he is still young, then he will be the best at the same age. The wiser man is; if he has grown up, he will have a wealth of knowledge and experience. A beech wand will be very powerless in the face of narrow-minded and unforgiving people.'"

"Yes." Mr. Ollivander nodded approvingly, "Why do you think this wand did not choose to follow its master?"

This requires using your brain.

Ian reproduced in his mind the words and deeds of the wizard just now.

"That gentleman, I don't feel confident in him..."

"That's right," Ollivander put the wand in the box, "Abel, when he came to buy the wand from me, he was still a little wizard, a smart little wizard. If I guessed correctly, he should have entered Ravenclaw.

After graduating, he declined an invitation from the Ministry of Magic's Experimental Spells Committee to work in a research laboratory in Devon.

The curse accident caused a lot of chaos and made him suffer mentally.I think he started to have self-doubt and hesitation.

Beech wood is suitable for open-minded wizards. The power of this 'open-minded' comes from its inherent unbreakable self-preservation qualities, that kind of self-confidence and strength.

The European beech can grow up to a hundred feet tall. If you have ever seen a beech alive, you will be aware of its majestic strength and immovable stability. "

"You just said to him, 'You can come back for your wand.' Why? Do you think it's possible for him to come back?"

"The wand chooses the wizard, child," Mr. Ollivander put the box away and looked at Ian with turbid eyes. "Faced with a wizard who has lost his inner power, this wand no longer responds to his call.

Of course, wizards also choose wands. If Abel can open his heart, he will naturally miss this wand.

As for whether he can do it, I would like to wish him the best, but conquering self-fear is much harder than changing a wand. "

"I understand, sir," Ian mused.

Mr. Ollivander returned to the warehouse behind the shop, pulled out a beech wand wood, and handed it to Ian.

"European beech (Fagussylvatica), white with reddish tinges. Usually I steam it to make it easier to work with. The steam treatment turns the wood into a reddish-brown color, which is very beautiful.

They can have a lifespan of 300 years. I remember there was a beech by the lake at Hogwarts. You can take a look when you were in school. "

Holding the beech in his hands, Ian felt a sense of peace, a calm, determined, self-protective strength.

"It's a pity that Mr. Abel didn't keep that wand," Ian sighed. "It would have helped him."

"Then do you think the wizard lost the wand because the wand could not help him, or did the wizard lose the wand's beloved qualities and was abandoned by the wand?"

Ian was stunned.

"The wand chooses the wizard, child..."

Mr. Ollivander walked towards his workbench with his hands behind his back, leaving his low sigh echoing in the place.

…………A scholar cannot be without great perseverance, and there is a long way to go…………

Ian shuttles back and forth between London and Guildford every day. He usually goes to the station to take a train right after class, and it takes 10 minutes to arrive at London Waterloo Station, and then takes a bus to Charing Cross Street.

Then I stayed at the wand shop for an hour and then left. I got home around six o'clock to eat and rest.

With plenty of time during the weekends, Ian sometimes chooses to take the bus, which takes more than an hour to Victoria Bus Station - while sleeping on the bus.

After struggling like this every day, Ian thought about dropping out of school directly and focusing on learning magic, but Haydn and Cloris rejected it.

"Ian, magic is very charming, but you have to know that magic is not the whole world.

Your dad and I want you to go to school not so much for the results you can achieve - of course, your achievements are worthy of our pride - but so that you can hope to reach out to the world.

We ordinary people can also fly to the moon, explore the universe, and create a rich and colorful life. This is what I hope you can enjoy instead of being trapped in the Middle Ages.

So now you go to school, make friends, and enjoy the world, okay?As for magical things, it's not too late to work harder when you grow up. "Cloris said.

Ian was convinced.

He felt that he was really lucky to be reincarnated into such a family.Even if it was simply to prevent Haydn and Cloris from worrying, he was willing to stay in school.

The Heseltines were concerned about Ian's long commute and wrote to Mr. Weasley to ask if they could connect the fireplace to a Floo network.

Mr. Weasley enthusiastically responded to the Heseltine couple's request. He took his family of three to the Ministry of Magic's Magical Transportation Department's Floo Network Authority to register - with Mr. Ollivander's letter of introduction, plus With the help of Mr. Weasley, we successfully connected to the Floo network.

If it were just to open a short-term channel, Mr. Weasley could do it with his own connections, but it would be more troublesome to formally connect to the Floo network.

"We can move around more in the future."

Mr. Weasley was very happy - he could travel to the Muggle world through his fireplace, what a convenience!