"Ah~ it's you, that child nine years ago...then no wonder this wand chose you!" Hearing John's name and the priest's uniform on his body, Ollivander understood why this wand chose you. He did.
As an animal with sacred attributes, unicorns were indeed quite popular in the circle of church wizards.
Generally speaking, unicorns are not willing to approach wizards, but there will inevitably be some accidents, and the most unexpected one is the church wizard.
Some church wizards with noble character and proficiency in sacred magic (non-holy light) can easily gain the recognition of unicorns.
"But you should already have a wand, right?" Ollivander then thought of something again and asked with a slight frown.
"Yes, I do have my own wand, but since this child has chosen me, I will treat it well!" Faced with Ollivander's question, John did not deny it. He shook his other hand and Like a silver basswood wand, a silver-white smooth wand appeared in his hand.
"It's also silver basswood, and the core of the wand is... the nerves of the Lamora fish?" Ollivander raised his eyebrows. It was another wand made of extremely rare materials, and its manufacturing technology was also extremely sophisticated.
The Lamorra fish is a rare magical fish that only lives in the Indian Ocean. It is silver in color and possesses extremely strong magic power. It can fix ships at sea and is the best guard for sailors. It is classified as XX by the Ministry of Magic.
This is not because the Lamorra fish is weak, but because it can communicate with humans and is very friendly to people. It often saves ships and sailors in distress at sea.
Therefore, this fish is highly respected by the International Federation of Wizards and has a very high level of protection.
So using the nerves of this fish to make a wand...
Ollivander's lips couldn't help but move.
"This is the inherited wand within the church. It once belonged to His Majesty Robert Bellarmine!" Seeing Ollivander's expression, John knew what Ollivander was thinking and said immediately.
Robert Bellarmine, a church saint in the early 17th century, director of the Inquisition, theologian... and a wizard.
Hearing this name, Ollivander's face immediately relaxed. When this saint was alive, the International Federation of Wizards had not yet been established.
Then there would be no poaching problem.
But he had no problem. Hermione on the side became interested: "Robert Bellarmine? Burnt Bruno, the bishop?"
"Hermione!" Mr. Granger shouted after hearing this.
Although from the perspective of ordinary people, Bruno, the scientist, must be righteous.
But it is obviously impolite to talk about the saints of the church in front of the senior leaders of the John Church.
"It doesn't matter, there is nothing to avoid. The church is indeed responsible for Bruno's death. But according to what my mentor said when I got this wand, it was not the church that ordered the burning, but the Habsburgs. The royal family, because Bruno not only opposed the church, he also tried to overthrow the rule of the Habsburg family. The church just took the blame... The church's biggest responsibility is probably to send Lord Bellarmine to defeat Bruno and finally hand him over. To the secular courts,” John explained.
This is not John whitewashing the church, but this is what he heard within the church.
As for the authenticity, after all, it happened hundreds of years ago, and John had no way of distinguishing the true from the false.
But one thing John is certain of, that is, from the 16th century to the early 17th century, the church was indeed powerless against the Habsburg royal family.
According to the records in the church, the wizarding world at that time had not withdrawn from the mortal world, so the Habsburg royal family recruited a large number of dark wizards to work for themselves.
This is also the reason why Charles V, the Spanish/HRE King at the time, was able to lead the army to defeat Rome.
And it was indeed at that time that the church began to decline.
It is also said within the church that the witch-hunting wars and other actions of that era were secretly promoted by the Habsburg royal family in order to undermine the influence of the church and consolidate their own rule.
If these records are true, it would be nothing more than why Voltaire rated the HRE of the Habsburg family as neither Roman, nor sacred, nor imperial.
"Sent Bellarmine to defeat Bruno? You mean, Bruno is also a wizard? Really?" Hermione asked with wide eyes.
She didn't expect that behind the seemingly ordinary history, there was such an interesting story.
"Of course it's true! Bruno is a very powerful wizard. As for the Habsburg family... Haha, guess why even now, Hungary and Romania are still the largest gathering places of dark creatures? They don't just hire black people. Wizards, as well as werewolves and vampires... One of the reasons why the International Federation of Wizards was established was to punish those evil guys." This time, it was Ollivander who spoke on the side.
John didn't expect Ollivander to take up the conversation and approve the church's records.
As a member of one of the twenty-eight sacred families that has been passed down since the eleventh century, his words are highly credible.
But that would be interesting.
"The International Federation of Wizards was formed at the end of the 17th century, and the Habsburg family suddenly declined at the beginning of the 18th century... Here..." John couldn't help but look at Ollivander with an inquiring gaze.
"It's what you think! After the International Federation of Wizards was formed, it launched a war against dark wizards and dark creatures across Europe, completely cutting off the foundation of the dark magic world in the secular world, and also causing Habsburg to The Fort family has lost its greatest control over the secular world!" Ollivander nodded and confirmed John's guess. "For this period of history, there should be records within your church, but you don't know?"
"Well... I'm not a history major after all. I only heard about the story about Bellarmine's Crown because of this magic wand. Moreover, the records in the church about that period are also very vague. They only record that the wizarding world completely withdrew. Mortal world." John touched his chin and said, who would have thought that a simple thing like buying a magic wand could still be talked about the history of the 17th and 18th centuries.
"That's right. Your church had already declined at that time, and the history of that period was considered a shame for your church. It's normal that the records would be somewhat obscured." Ollivander nodded in understanding, and then looked at He took the silver basswood wand in John's hand that he had chosen. "Although it is a bit excessive for one person to have two wands, since it has chosen you, then you can take it with you, but the money still has to be paid, Chenghui Qi Galleons."
"Oh? Can I also enjoy the discount for new students at Hogwarts?" John was a little surprised after hearing this. According to his behavior back then, he had completely abandoned his Hogwarts student status, but he could still enjoy seven galleons. He was already prepared to pay a lot of money for the wand treatment.
"Since you are on the list, of course it is okay. Hogwarts is not that stingy. I have been talking to you, but I haven't chosen a new wand for this lovely lady." Olivan De ignored John and turned his attention to Hermione. "Let me see...well, how about this one? Grapevine wood body...the core of Dragon Heartstring, length 10.75 inches..."
