By the time Dudley reached the second floor, the wand testing experts had arrived, along with several judges.
Dudley and Harry had both left, so it was naturally impossible for Viktor and Fleur to stay there, so they followed them up.
"Allow me to introduce Mr. Ollivander."
Standing next to Dumbledore was an older man who had met Dudley and the others, Ollivander, the only wand manufacturer in England.
"He will be checking your wands to make sure they are in good condition before the game."
Ollivander stepped forward, glanced at Fleur first, and said politely: "Miss Delacour, you come first, okay?"
Fleur walked lightly towards Ollivander and handed him her wand.
The so-called wand test is actually Ollivander stroking the wand with his fingers, then tapping the wand here and there, and then releasing a few small magics.
"Well" Ollivander put his ear on the wand and listened, as if listening to the whisper of the wand, and then he rotated the wand between his slender fingers like a conductor's baton, and the wand sprayed out a lot of pink and gold. of sparks.
"Not bad." Ollivander finally returned the wand to Fleur: "Nine and a half inches. Very strong. Made of maple wood and contains, oh, a Veela hair."
"It's my grandma's hair." Fleur admitted very decisively. The silver-haired girl showed a smile with two rows of white teeth shining in the sun. She did not deny the fact that she had Veela blood, but was very proud of it.
Mixtures of magical creatures and wizards are still relatively discriminated against in the wizarding world, and the situation is even worse than that of Muggle wizards. At least there are so many Muggle wizards that scolding one is like opening a map cannon to scold them.
As for mixed-bloods, especially mixed-bloods like Veela, many male wizards regard them as...well...handling. And female wizards will be very unfriendly to them, preventing them from seducing their husbands, and even spurning them.
For example, Dudley felt that Bagman's eyes couldn't help but glance towards her when he heard that Fleur had Veela blood.
If the Veela is difficult to understand, you can replace the Veela with a succubus, a hybrid succubus, or a female. It is destined to be treated unfriendly.
"A very nice design. It suits you very well, Miss Delacour."
Ollivander returned the wand to Fleur with a normal expression. At his age, he had never seen any big storms.
Not to mention little witches with a quarter of Veela blood, he has seen little witches with half or three-quarters of Veela blood.
"Mr. Krum, it's your turn." Ollivander turned his eyes to Victor.
Victor stepped forward with his splayed figure and handed his black, thick, large and heavy wand to Ollivander.
When the wand was placed in Ollivander's hand, he clearly felt his body sink. Victor's wand was very heavy.
After tapping on the wand for a while, Ollivander said: "It's a product of Grigovitch. This is an excellent wandmaker, although I am not very fond of his style."
"But very healthy."
It's hard to imagine that someone would use health to describe a wand, but this is Ollivander's characteristic. In his eyes, wands are not much different from people.
"Next, Mr. Potter."
Ollivander's eyes turned to Harry again, his light eyes flashing with excitement: "Everything seems to have happened yesterday, I remember it clearly. Quick, let me see how it is now. "
Harry handed over the wand hidden in his sleeve. The wand was shiny and reflected a different kind of brilliance in the light.
“It’s very well maintained, oh, it’s like new.”
Ollivander carefully caressed Harry's wand as if caressing his wife's body, and even put the wand under his nose and took a deep breath.
To outsiders, he seems a little bit perverted.
"It seems that you take care of it frequently. Did you oil it yesterday?"
"Ah, um." Harry was a little confused by Ollivander's question and replied reflexively.
It was true that he regularly maintained his wand, but he didn't apply any oil yesterday.
In fact, it is correct to say that it is oil, but it is just human oil. In other words, Harry coiled his wand and made it shine.
Ollivander returned the wand to Harry, looking very good about finding a good owner for his creation.
"Finally Mr. Dursley."
Ollivander paused and looked at the last warrior.
"If I remember correctly, your wand should be iron birch, thestral tail feathers, nine inches."
Of course he still remembered it. The wand he sold to Dudley was the work he was most dissatisfied with. However, now that Dudley had become a Hogwarts warrior with it, he was naturally more concerned about the state of the wand. Curious.
Dudley was unequivocal and handed the wand to Ollivander.
"Have you modified it?" Ollivander stared blankly at the greatly changed wand in his hand. If he hadn't been able to confirm that it was the one he gave to Dudley, he would have suspected that this wand was the one he gave to Dudley. He didn't make it anymore.
"Oh, what a genius idea"
After all, Ollivander is the most famous wand master in Europe. Even though the production process used is different, he still sees some tricks.
"It's also interesting to talk about the process of making it. You know, a lot of works are born from a flash of inspiration. And this is a flash of inspiration from me."
Ollivander would never use iron birch, a very hard wood, as the wand's trunk, because it has very poor flexibility and ductility, let alone the Thestral's tail feathers, which are the core of the wand. It is a very unstable material.
So far, the only well-known wand with a Thestral tail feather as its core is the Elder Wand, one of the Three Hallows of Death.
Under normal circumstances, Ollivander wouldn't even look at these two completely mismatched materials.
Suddenly one day he felt like he had a seizure, so he made one out of these two materials.
"I originally thought it would be the biggest failure of all my works."
"I didn't expect that it was actually a semi-finished product, waiting for someone to take it away."
Ollivander handed the wand back to Dudley: "And you finished it."
"Although I personally don't like the wand being modified like this."
He was referring to the practice of embedding magic crystals on the wand.
"But it's happy and I'm happy."
Ollivander's attitude towards the wand is actually no different from that of a child. The wizard does not choose the wand, but the wand chooses the wizard. This is Ollivander's favorite saying.
"I wish you good results in the competition."
(End of chapter)
