[{"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-69":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},2292321,4482,"Chapter 69: The Blue Unicorn Outside the Window","hogwarts-don-t-call-me-a-wandmaker-chapter-69",69,"\u003Cp>At the year-end banquet that night, to everyone’s surprise, Gryffindor, which had ranked last in points, surged ahead and seized the House Cup from Slytherin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Dumbledore had counted everything that happened in the underground classroom, he first awarded Silven Ollivander one hundred points for risking his own life to lure the enraged three-headed dog out of the castle, thereby protecting the lives of most students.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just this single bonus pushed Gryffindor from last place to second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, Ron, Hermione, and Harry each received fifty points for braving danger to protect the Philosopher’s Stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neville was also awarded ten points for standing by his principles, but it no longer mattered—by the time Harry’s points were added, their total had already surpassed Slytherin’s, securing the House Cup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gryffindor celebrated wildly until late into the night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This suited Silven perfectly; for certain reasons, his dormitory was far too cold, and it was far more comfortable to stay in the warm common room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only after everyone had gradually dispersed past midnight did Silven return to his dormitory with a heart full of excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Good news: after prolonged exposure, the Dragonwood was completely unaffected by Voldemort’s fragment, making it the ideal wand core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But how to put it… it seemed a bit too perfect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While exhausted students still slept, awaiting the coming holiday, they were suddenly jolted awake by a deafening explosion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a thunderous crash, at least a dozen windows shattered, and Hogwarts Castle blazed to life in the early morning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon after, several awakened Gryffindors suddenly spotted, outside their windows, a unicorn glowing with blue light—and a face they could not identify.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Merlin above, this is the eighth floor—where did this unicorn come from?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when they snapped back to attention and tried to see more clearly, the unicorn had vanished, leaving only chaos in its wake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Minutes later, the professors arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But since the disturbance had appeared suddenly and vanished just as quickly, they could not determine what had truly happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They only knew it had occurred near the Gryffindor common room, as that was the area most severely affected—nearly every dorm window there had been shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ravenclaw’s dorms were half-destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hufflepuff and Slytherin dorms, located in the dungeons, escaped unscathed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Professor McGonagall, still in her nightgown, rushed to the common room and immediately fixed her suspicious gaze on Silven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no help for it—Silven had a history; last time, his two-foot wand had woken half the castle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, it was even more extreme—nearly every student and professor in the castle had been roused!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In response to McGonagall’s suspicion, Silven simply opened the door to his dormitory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside, there was nothing unusual; though furniture and bookshelves had been damaged, the state matched that of other dorms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>McGonagall pressed her lips together; her instincts told her this was tied to Silven, and more suspiciously, several students kept glancing at him, intentionally or not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though glances could not serve as evidence, McGonagall quietly noted it down—until the culprit was caught, she would not abandon her suspicion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps because Hogwarts was about to close for the holidays, the professors did not pursue it further; after helping several senior students restore the dorms, they departed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The castle buzzed with noise until, an hour later, it gradually fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that did not mean the matter was over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next day, as students gathered in groups to head to the Hogsmeade station, they still discussed the mysterious blue unicorn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet opinions on the matter clearly split into two camps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Unicorns aren’t blue, and they don’t fly,” said Cedric Diggory of Hufflepuff, finding Gryffindor’s claims exaggerated, and feeling compelled to educate them on basic unicorn facts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Gryffindors insisted they had seen it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This claim had long been treated as a joke—until several Ravenclaws stepped forward and confirmed the same thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike the famously loud Gryffindors, Ravenclaws rarely boasted, let alone had twenty or thirty of them come forward together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I know this sounds absurd,” said second-year Cho Chang, one of the most resolute Ravenclaws, “but I saw it with my own eyes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The unicorn had passed directly outside her dorm window; she had never seen such a beautiful creature—its pale blue body seemed adorned with starlight, and the image had seared itself into her mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So when she heard Cedric’s words, she stepped forward without hesitation. “If you haven’t seen it yourself, don’t rush to deny it. After all, this is Hogwarts—magic can make anything possible, isn’t it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Uh… sorry…” Cedric, left speechless, could only apologize.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, after the Ravenclaws came forward as witnesses, he himself had begun to doubt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could there truly be blue, flying unicorns in the magical world?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, after Hogwarts closed for the holidays, he could ask his father, who worked in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, on a second-floor corridor:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You did it, didn’t you!” Fred and George cornered Silven as he was heading downstairs, pressing him aggressively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What did I do?” Silven blinked innocently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The unicorn last night,” Fred stepped forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’ve been acting strange these past few days, barely leaving your dorm.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This same thing happened during Christmas break.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then your dorm got smashed to pieces.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now it’s happening again—dare you say it’s not your doing?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their tone was certain, as if they had already decided to pin this on Silven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’re not as easy to fool as the professors,” George added.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past, Silven might have spread his hands and admitted it outright, then added—“So what? Are you planning to report me to the professors?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But today he had no energy for that; he gave the Weasley twins a vague excuse, sidestepped them, and left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fred and George, noticing Silven’s poor condition—his pale face, listless demeanor—looked nearly as drained as Harry had when he was sent to the hospital wing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So they did not press further, merely saying they would visit him after the holidays.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silven had said before he lived at Ollivanders Wand Shop in Diagon Alley—easy to find; for those connected to the Floo Network, it was as close as a neighbor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1020,"2026-06-20T04:03:11.805Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","63e3ee7f87789791c86a3ac7ec0e94809e619f44607a3f690bd3744e01956af6","hogwarts-don-t-call-me-a-wandmaker-chapter-70","hogwarts-don-t-call-me-a-wandmaker-chapter-68",149,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fhogwarts-don-t-call-me-a-wandmaker-cover.jpg"]