Everyday players at Hogwarts

Chapter 27 The Knowledge of Magic Wands

Looking at Hagrid's skills, Ryan initially confirmed that Hagrid was the descendant of the King of Monsters.

Ryan looked at Hagrid's hut boredly. This hut was made of wood and could be seen through the window. The hut had only one room with hams and pheasants hanging on it.

In the middle of the room was a huge wooden table with a stack of leftover ferret sandwiches on it.

There was a large bed in the corner, covered with quilts made of rags. There were several copper pots hanging from the ceiling, and a bunch of long, smooth and smooth white hairs.

A copper kettle was used to boil water in the brazier in the opposite corner.

A field behind the cabin grew pumpkins and lentils.

An umbrella with a pink floral pattern rests against the wall.

There is a stone bow and a pair of rubber galoshes in front of the gate.

It’s really luxurious in the midst of desolation. The white hair hanging casually is the hair of a unicorn. According to Horace Slughorn, the professor of the sixth potions course, the price of unicorn tail hair is 10 galleons apiece.

You know, Harry's wand is only 7 gold galleons.

Hagrid just thought that unicorn tail hair was very strong and could be used to bandage injured animals.

Understand that unicorn tail hair has many uses.

First, unicorn tail hair can be used to make magic potions, such as beauty potions. Unicorn Tail Hair can be purchased at the pharmacy in Diagon Alley for 10 Galleons per bag. However, the total amount of the bag here is no more than one of Hagrid's bunch of unicorn hairs. They have been trimmed and packed in a bag to appear more. However, when you think about the fact that they are used to make beauty potions, there is a reason why witches' cosmetics are so expensive.

Second, unicorn tail hair can be used to make wands. Wands made of unicorn tail hair can produce the most stable magic and are rarely subject to fluctuations or obstructions. And it is the most loyal, regardless of whether its first owner is an outstanding wizard or not, it will maintain a strong connection with this person. This wand also has the disadvantage of being difficult to use for dark magic. They also don't make for the most powerful wands (although the wand wood may compensate for this lack). At the same time, it is as sensitive as its owner who only comes into contact with young girls. If not handled properly, unicorn tail hair can easily become melancholic. This means that the tail hair is "dead" and needs to be replaced.

Ryan was suddenly a little glad that his wand was not made of unicorn tail hair, although the wood of the wand could make up for the weak shortcomings of the unicorn hair wand. But compared to dragon and phoenix feathers, it is still a bit lacking. You can use good wand wood for your unicorn tail feather wand, but you can't use dragon or phoenix feathers.

Aspen, an outstanding wand wood, more than makes up for it, plus my wand is made from the most unicorn heartstrings ever made. And according to what I asked Jack to find out later, this wand was made by Ollivander in his early years. He rejected more than one wizard who later became outstanding because of lack of talent, which shows how powerful he is.

However, unicorn hair is already one of the three most magical substances in the eyes of Ollivander, the wand master, besides dragons and phoenixes. Unicorns are a bit like phoenixes, and the only parts of their bodies that can be used to make wands are usually the hair on their bodies. Unlike a dragon, various parts of a dragon can be used to make a wand, such as its nerves and heartstrings.

The unicorn looks noble and sacred, but other parts of it carry a strong curse that entangles a wizard throughout his life. Only the hair with the weakest magic power can be used as the core of the staff. Phoenix has many feathers and often sheds. Although it cannot be caught, feathers can always be found in its habitat. The most powerful of the three, dragon, is so useful and fertile that even Dumbledore studied 12 uses of dragon blood when he was young.

Even for the breeding of creatures like dragons, pure-blood wizards have specifically legislated to prohibit private breeding of wizards, and have also specifically built dragon farms in Romania to monopolize them.

The other child of the prophecy, Harry Potter, had an extraordinary combination of wands. As Ryan got to know the wand better, he realized why Ollivander could not put it down in the original novel.

Holly wood, phoenix feather, pliable, eleven inches long.

Holly is a rare wand wood. Only generally considered to have defensive attributes, favoring owners who need to overcome their anger and impatience. They also tend to follow people who engage in somewhat dangerous behavior and advocate spiritual pursuits.

The performance of a holly wand depends largely on its core, and is a rather difficult wood to match with Phoenix feathers, as its instability can oddly conflict with the Phoenix's detachment. However, such matches can occur under special circumstances, when nothing and no one can stop them.

And its owner, Harry Potter, also fully demonstrates these qualities.

Harry Potter himself is very good at controlling his emotions, and even has a bit of low self-esteem. After entering the magic world, he gradually became confident and full of courage. He had the courage to sacrifice himself and fight hard at critical moments.

What he was best at was the Patronus Charm, which greatly enhanced the defensive properties of holly wood and drove away hundreds of dementors at once. Even in the seventh part, when facing its master's enemies, it proactively released an unprecedented and powerful spell to repel Voldemort.

An interesting point is that in wizarding superstition, the owners of holly wands and oak wands are incompatible. They cannot be together, and Hagrid is an oak wand.

This is because the oak tree is known as the king of the forest from the winter solstice to the summer solstice, and its wood can only be harvested during this period. Holly replaces oak as the king of the forest when the days become shorter again, so holly can only be collected in the second half of the year, which is why it is incompatible.

There are only a dozen such extraordinary combinations in Ollivander's Wand Shop since 382 BC, and most of them have never met their owners. Only after testing them many times would Ollivander cherish them and give them to the little wizard to try one by one.

But this may also be the reason why most wizards don't pay much attention to wand science. Most of them think that they can just use it.

Muggle-born wizards will take the initiative to buy wands from Ollivanders, while only some wizards choose Ollivanders wands because they are the best. Some people would rather go to second-hand wand shops to save money and buy other things that they think are more important, such as potion materials, clothes, etc.

The vast majority of people who didn't go to Ollivanders to buy a wand inherited a wand from a relative.

Ron and Neville both used old wands belonging to their relatives. Ron inherited Charlie's unicorn hair wand because he was poor. It was loyal to its first owner, causing Ron to be relatively mediocre in the first grade. Neville used his father's old wand until fifth grade because his grandmother didn't pay attention to it.

One thing that many people have not noticed is that Lucius Malfoy also inherited his elm dragon nerve wand from his father, Abraxas Malfoy.

What a pity. What kind of power can a well-matched wand have? Harry's performance in the original work can prove this. The reason why Neville's performance in the original work is so poor is also because the wand is out of time. Until the end of the fifth Order of the Phoenix, Because the battle wand was damaged, I went to Ollivander's to get it on the eve of my sixth year.

Interestingly, this was also the last wand sold by Ollivander before he was kidnapped by Voldemort, cherry wood and unicorn tail hair.

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