Hogwarts: Don't call me the Staff Maker

Chapter 152 The Failed Wand

Chapter 153 The Failed Wand

As Garrick thought about his guess more and more, he felt it was possible. After all, the eyes and fangs of a basilisk didn't seem like things that could be given away casually; they could 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 not worry about it 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, Xilun took out the snakewood he had carefully preserved.

This was a Christmas gift Siren received last year. Magic runes were already engraved on it; all that was left was to find a suitable wand core.

It can be taken out and used immediately.

Now is the time.

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 Xilun 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 whispered, holding the basilisk's eye with one hand.

As the golden runes on Xilun's wrist appeared, a few minutes later, the basilisk's eyes, which had previously looked like 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.

"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 moves as if it were alive. Combined 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 recalled the round wand from five years ago, and the two-foot-long, short stick-like wand from last year.

It seems only Siren 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 peculiar feeling spread from Garrick's fingertips throughout his body. He could sense that the staff was filled with 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.

Siron thought about it many times, and he had made no mistakes in any of the steps he took to make the wand. How could it be incomplete? Siron refused to believe it and picked up the wand and waved it.

"Fluorescent lights!"

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.

"Fluorescent lights!"

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

In other words, this is a magic 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.

Uncontrollable magic—this is a complete failure, and a fundamental failure 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 with magical properties, only in this way 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 described above.

But that's even more impossible. How could the eyes of the snake tree and the snake monster not have magic power?

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 making tea, where every step was correct, the tea and water were all right, but when he opened the cup, he found 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."