[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-hogwarts-don-t-call-me-a-wandmaker":3,"chapter-hogwarts-don-t-call-me-a-wandmaker-hogwarts-don-t-call-me-a-wandmaker-chapter-18":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Hogwarts: Don't Call Me a Wandmaker",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2292270,4482,"Chapter 18: The People Who Make Wands Are All Insane","hogwarts-don-t-call-me-a-wandmaker-chapter-18",18,"\u003Cp>Silven had always wondered: if a spirit has no body, is it a wizard or a special magical creature?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or, more specifically… could it be used as a wand core?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Perhaps I should try it first,” Silven thought, though he wasn’t sure any ghost would cooperate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Carrying this question, Silven hastily finished lunch in the Great Hall and joined the others heading to the dungeons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Snape’s Potions class.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Silven was not late—and he saw, as he’d remembered, the famous scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I can teach you how to raise your prestige, brew glory, even stave off death—but on one condition: you are not the usual fools and idiots I encounter.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Snape glided through the classroom like a giant black bat; no one dared raise their eyes to meet his gaze, not even dare to breathe loudly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Potter, what would you get if you added powdered dandelion root to an infusion of wormwood?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As expected, Snape’s target was still Harry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry, of course, knew nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course—he’d read *One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi*, and the questions Snape asked were all around page 150, third-year material.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Do you expect a first-year student to know third-year content?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don’t be ridiculous!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone in the room—even Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff students who weren’t present—could answer it, except for Hermione, the book-memorizing maniac.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ollivander!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silven was just mentally criticizing Snape’s malice when his arm was jolted hard—he turned to see Neville trembling like a quail, and Snape’s eyes narrowed, face dark with fury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It seems someone believes they’ve already mastered the material and no longer need to waste time listening to my lectures, correct, Mr. Ollivander?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course not, Professor,” Silven forced a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn it—he’d been too absorbed in watching, forgotten that Snape hated students zoning out in his class too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is that so?” Snape’s voice was icy. “Then perhaps you can tell Potter the difference between monkshood and wolfsbane?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah… monkshood is a smoked herb; it can be roasted with pine needles, insect grass, three-leaf flowers, and beetle shells—the smoke makes certain wand shafts more elastic, most commonly used with willow.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wolfsbane is the same—these two are the same thing.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silven answered smoothly; some students instinctively pulled out parchment and quills, ready to jot down these key points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’d clearly not reviewed properly—they had no recollection at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Stop! You don’t need to write this down!” Snape roared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone instantly froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Snape turned back to Silven, his eyelid twitching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be honest, Silven was right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This information came from Zigmund Barch’s *Book of Potions*, Volume Three—*Potions and the Magical Synergy with Wands*.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Strictly speaking, this wasn’t a standard potions text—it was merely a love letter Zigmund Barch had scribbled in his youth to woo a girl obsessed with wandlore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such material had zero reference value in potioncraft, but Zigmund Barch was too famous—he was the most renowned medieval potions master and the founder of the Extraordinary Potioneers’ Association.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, even his casual scribbles were later compiled, organized, and included in *The Book of Potions*, the most authoritative potions text.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But again, this stuff was utterly useless…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No—Silven was an Ollivander; he actually needed this information!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By Merlin’s beard!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Snape was agonized—worse than giving Gryffindor fifty points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wished he’d never read *The Book of Potions*, so he could deduct points without hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But a potions master who hadn’t read *The Book of Potions*? That was like a house-elf unable to sweep, or Dumbledore disliking sweets—truly the coldest joke of the century.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sit down!” Snape gritted his teeth and conceded, shot Silven a glance, then turned and walked away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aconite—the rarest of materials, more expensive by weight than dragon’s blood! Why not brew it into a potion? Why burn it to smoke wood? Smoke wood!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pfft!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The people who make wands are all insane!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silven blinked, confused—why had Snape suddenly gotten so angry?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Monkshood and wolfsbane are the same thing—he hadn’t been wrong, he’d even added the usage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silven remembered clearly: at age nine, he’d read this in *The Book of Potions*. He couldn’t be mistaken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unable to understand, Silven could only blame Harry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He must’ve been dragged down by him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But there was good news: for the rest of the Potions class, Snape ignored him entirely—even when checking assignments, he barely glanced and moved on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s this? At least give me a point,” Silven muttered, staring at his cauldron’s bright pink potion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Standard boil remedy—no errors at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silven was confident in his potion skills; as a wandmaker, he often had to brew matching infusion liquids depending on the wand core material.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t simple—even the basic version he used in his dorm took nearly six hours to brew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to that, making a boil remedy was effortless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Snape hadn’t even looked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That petty old bat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silven grumbled as he left the dungeon classroom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t care much about the house points—but Snape’s blatant favoritism was outrageous; even an adult would want to punch him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silven was no exception.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s just Snape—he’s completely unreasonable,” Ron said, walking beside Silven. “Fred told me he never gives Gryffindor points.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s wrong!” Hermione hurried over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Silven was the only one who made the boil potion correctly—he can’t pretend not to see it. We should go to Professor McGonagall.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Actually, he can,” Ron shrugged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“By the way, can I come with you to see Hagrid?” This was directed at Harry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At lunch, Harry had received a note inviting him to tea at three.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was nearly three now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course,” Harry said, then turned to Silven. “Are you coming too? I remember you said you wanted to help him fix something.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah, yes,” Silven nodded. “But I have other things to do later—I won’t go with you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright then,” Harry didn’t press, and after leaving the dungeon, he and Ron left the castle to find Hagrid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",972,"2026-06-20T04:03:11.805Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","9de873d2ecccede98e508c2515dabf986da05fdf1fe4a5557b363a495d36e7ac","hogwarts-don-t-call-me-a-wandmaker-chapter-19","hogwarts-don-t-call-me-a-wandmaker-chapter-17",149,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fhogwarts-don-t-call-me-a-wandmaker-cover.jpg"]