[{"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-71":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},2292323,4482,"Chapter 71: The Wisdom of the Old Wandmaker","hogwarts-don-t-call-me-a-wandmaker-chapter-71",71,"\u003Cp>“Silven, I’m afraid I can’t offer you much useful advice.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At No. 267 Diagon Alley, on the second floor of Ollivander’s Wand Shop, Garrick Ollivander stared at the five wands laid out on the table, his eyes flickering with daze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Last year, Silven crafted a wand with a core of Red Hat’s heart nerve—he was so astonished he couldn’t sleep for days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, that wand seemed the most ordinary of all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Look at the others…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A full troll spine, a wizard’s hair, a unicorn’s soul, and something else—unknown, but certainly not anything good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These materials were crushing Garrick’s understanding, smashing it flat, piecing it back together, then crushing it again… this cycle had repeated four times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Pianpian  at this moment, Silven asked him questions… how to shrink a troll spine to normal wand core size, how to quickly match a wand shaft to wizard hair…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I don’t know!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, he had made nearly a hundred wands in his life, but he had never used a full troll spine—such an absurd material!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the accumulated experience of centuries suddenly became useless when facing Silven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made Garrick constantly wonder: what had Silven experienced at Hogwarts?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s set the rest aside for now,” Garrick picked up the wand that looked the most normal—the one he considered the most abnormal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How did you turn wizard hair into a wand core?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s the problem?” Silven asked. “You’ve made wands with veela hair before…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Veela are not wizards,” Garrick said. “Even if they can appear identical to witches, even marry wizards, veela are still magical creatures, their magic fundamentally different from that of wizards.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ve tried using wizard hair before—every attempt failed. My grandfather, his grandfather, none succeeded.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Garrick explained in detail why those attempts failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A wand exists to compensate for a wizard’s insufficient innate magic, like two semicircular magnets—one positive, one negative—that together form a complete circle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s why most wizards can only cast spells with a wand; only a few elites, through relentless study, can make their own magic complete—what’s called wandless casting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among these, magical creature magic is the “negative pole,” utterly distinct from a wizard’s own “positive pole” magic—a distinction clear even at Hogwarts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hogwarts has magic that blocks Apparition, yet it has no effect on house-elves or phoenixes—this is the difference in magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard hair, naturally, is also “positive pole”—how could two positive poles possibly fit together?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Garrick’s explanation, Silven sat up straight in surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait, has there never been such a wand before?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not exactly,” Garrick frowned. “Andrews the Invincible used his own tooth as a wand core.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then it’s done,” Silven shrugged. “I’ve already made one.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s its effect?” Garrick asked eagerly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t know,” Silven thought for a moment. “But Professor McGonagall says she finds it easy to use.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What about others?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I find it easy to use too.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is that what I meant?” Garrick’s face turned red; he snatched up the wand and gave it a light flick.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Orchids bloom!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wand jerked violently, then sparks shot from its tip—barely missing setting Garrick’s hair on fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Garrick didn’t care; his eyes shone like lightbulbs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So it’s true… but…” he sighed, his expression complex—as if he’d expected this, yet still felt a flicker of delight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he himself couldn’t use the wand at all, Millicent McGonagall could—and those sparks, too, were clearly magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is it because the hair produces too low a magical resonance?” Garrick nearly pressed his eyes against the wand, muttering to himself:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Combined with your unique core magic, it’s triggered a completely new magical transformation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He held the wand upright, tracing his fingers along its shaft, tapping lightly at intervals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Never seen this kind of magical resonance… too monotonous… no, wait—that’s the point… I see… incredible—this is a line of thought no one ever considered…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Silven, could I borrow this for a while?” Garrick couldn’t help asking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course,” Silven, snapping back to himself, said, licking his lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though Silven had seen this many times before, every time Garrick revealed his wand knowledge, he remained astonished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he made the five-legged creature core, it was Garrick who recommended bamboo as the shaft—yet in Silven’s memory, Garrick had never used that material before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, with wizard hair as the core, Silven had made it—but didn’t understand the principle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Garrick grasped nearly everything in minutes—no wonder he was the top wandmaker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Garrick’s glowing eyes, Silven asked curiously, “Could you make such a wand too?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not now,” he said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then someday?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Never,” Garrick tore his gaze from the wand, speaking seriously and earnestly. “My wands may not suit everyone, but they will never be fixed to one single person.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course, that’s my belief—not yours,” he smiled at Silven. “You should find your own path—even if it’s different from mine, different from all Ollivanders, it doesn’t matter.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silven said nothing. After a long pause, he muttered softly, “You sound like you think I’d change my mind if you disagreed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now it was Garrick’s turn to fall silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But Grandfather, if you won’t make this kind of wand, why waste time studying it?” Silven changed the subject.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Goblins in Gringotts never think they have too much treasure—even if they can’t use it,” Garrick said. “For me, wands are treasure.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silven nodded, half-understanding, then pointed to the other three wands. “What about these? I won’t use them during the holidays—feel free to borrow them all.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No,” Garrick said without hesitation, his mouth twitching slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He loved wands—but only those he could understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like goblins who hoard gold but dare not steal Galleons from Dumbledore’s pocket, Garrick simply could not imagine how to fit a whole unicorn into a twelve-inch shaft—what magic, what method?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This question could drive every wandmaker to madness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To avoid sinking into endless confusion and mystery, Garrick Ollivander’s wisdom and eighty years of life screamed at him—abandon this!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The same applied to the remaining two—leave them to Silven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",993,"2026-06-20T04:03:11.805Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","901ceabcc6f0ef16c51ec0210cbf7cc3d7137c7e767fe9fa6b677c1865d147bc","hogwarts-don-t-call-me-a-wandmaker-chapter-72","hogwarts-don-t-call-me-a-wandmaker-chapter-70",149,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fhogwarts-don-t-call-me-a-wandmaker-cover.jpg"]