Chapter 196

Murphy didn't actually care about the so-called topics.

A group of first and second-year young wizards, what could they research?

It was mainly to let them learn the general ideas and methods of doing research through such a way, so as to maintain their curiosity and thinking ability, and not become as rigid as adult wizards.

In addition, it could strengthen the cooperation within the group and give Harry's group more opportunities to gather together openly.

Sure enough, after class, Harry's group didn't leave and was still discussing the topic.

"This Professor Darkholm, could it be that he's not quite right in the head?" Ron pointed to his own head, "We haven't even learned a spell yet! He wants us to develop spells? Is he joking?"

"Your brain is the one that's not quite right!" Hermione immediately retorted, "Professor Murphy's thinking is clearly very clear, and he is teaching us very seriously. Besides, I have already learned several spells."

"Magic can realize anything we think of," Harry suddenly said, "Sirius said that the professor is very powerful, and he may be the smartest wizard. I believe his words."

"Yeah, the professor does seem very strong," Tom also said, "Did you notice the lightning when he appeared? I don't think that's any trick. The professor seems to have arrived along with the lightning."

"Anyway, I don't like him. My dad said he might be a dark wizard," Ron said.

"That's impossible!" Hermione immediately denied.

"You know again?"

"Professor Murphy came to pick me up, remember? The professor is very gentle, he can't be a dark wizard!"

"Very gentle..." Ron made a vomiting look, "My god, you wouldn't have fallen in love with him, would you?"

Hermione blushed immediately, "You're talking nonsense! He is a professor! You are not allowed to slander him like this!"

"I didn't slander him, he's not interested in you anyway," Ron's sharp-tongued attribute exploded.

"..." Hermione was so angry that her eyes stared straight. She hummed and stood up, sitting next to Tom, "Not sitting with the annoying ghost!"

"Alright, let's discuss what kind of topic to choose," Tom also had a headache from the two arguing, "Harry, what did you mean by that sentence you asked in class?"

Harry Potter looked at Tom, "Tom, have you ever seen your own father and mother?"

Tom shook his head, "It is said that they died in a car accident shortly after I was born. I don't even remember what they looked like."

"Me too," Harry said sadly, "It was Sirius who showed me their photos that I knew what they looked like."

Tom frowned, "So, you want to resurrect your parents?"

"They were killed by a very powerful spell. Sirius said that the spell has no counter-curse, and it is impossible to resurrect them. I just want to see them once."

"It's fine if it's like Nick and the others, I want to talk to them. Do you think they will have ghosts left behind?"

"Anyway, my parents were both Muggles, so there shouldn't be any ghosts left," Tom said, "However, if they became ghosts, you might want to go back to your hometown to see. These ghosts at Hogwarts have stayed in the castle for hundreds of years, so ghosts probably don't like to move."

"Sirius won't let me go, saying I'm still too young and won't let me come into contact with these things too much."

"Your foster father seems to be quite good to you," Tom said with envy.

"Yeah, Sirius is very good," Harry nodded heavily, "By the way, Tom, what is your wish?"

"Me?" Tom hesitated for a moment, "Probably, I want to recall things from the past."

"My memory has a problem, I can't remember things from before. I want to find them back."

"Memory is also very difficult," Harry said, sounding like things completely beyond their understanding, "Hermione, what about you, what do you want to do with magic?"

"I..." Hermione thought for a long time. She actually didn't have anything special she wanted to realize.

After all, compared to Harry and Tom, she, who was born in a dentist's family and had both parents who were very loving, grew up almost wrapped in love. She had no regrets that must be made up for with magic.

However, if she had to say, it wasn't that there was nothing she wanted to do.

"I want more time! Let me finish reading all the books I want to read."

Uh, worthy of being a Ravenclaw.

This spirit of learning is incomparable.

Harry and Tom were speechless for a while.

But, resurrection, memory, time... these topics are harder than the other.

"Ron..."

"Cough, I don't have any wishes..." Ron knew it would be his turn sooner or later, and pulled out his old wand, "If I have to say, does changing to a new wand count?"

"Pfft..." Hermione was amused, "What kind of wish is this."

Murphy also wanted a new wand.

He had flipped through the wand-making book gifted by Ollivander several times, and had long known its contents by heart, so he decided to start making a wand to try.

Wand making actually has three parts.

First, make the wand body.

The wand body is generally made of wood, cut, polished, and sometimes needs to be soaked in oil, soaked in water, exposed to the sun, carbonized, painted, etc., to make branches into wooden sticks of about ten to fifteen inches.

And hollow out the center of the wooden stick from the bottom to serve as a space for placing the wand core.

After the wand body is made, the second step is the treatment of the wand core.

Since Ollivander, mainstream wands generally use body tissues of magical animals such as dragon heartstrings, phoenix tail feathers, and unicorn hair as wand core materials. They usually need to be processed through several procedures into a size and length suitable for the wooden stick, and then placed in the center of the wand body.

The third step is to inject a unique gelatinous magic potion into the wand core space, fill it up, and use gems, wood, etc., as the wand base to close the wand core space, and let it stand for a period of time, waiting for the magic potion to promote the fusion of the wand core and the wand body.

This is a very strange process. Researchers at the institute once cut open several wands and found that the wand core would extend fine filaments throughout the wand core space, and even drill into the wood of the wand body, making its magic power completely penetrate the entire wand body and transform ordinary wood into some kind of magical material.

After the two are fused, the wand core tissue has some characteristics of plant tissue, becomes tougher, and for some unknown reason, always maintains partial activity.

According to that researcher, the wand is alive to a certain extent. It may be precisely because of this part of the wand's activity that it has a preference for magic power, which makes it have different degrees of fit with different wizards.

In theory, the more similar the magic power of the two, the higher the degree of fit.

Murphy's problem now lies here. After the multiple Animagus transformation, the nature of his magic power has become very strange, and its six-dimensional ratio is different from all known magical creatures, so in theory, no matter what wand core is chosen, the degree of fit with him now is very low.

This may be the reason why he couldn't find a suitable wand at Ollivander's.

After thinking about it, Murphy came up with an idea: should he try to make a wand with his own body tissue? For example, pull out a hair? Or a feather?

Werewolf hair can make a wand, and Thunderbird feathers can also make a wand. As a dignified multiple Animagus, I should also be a high-level magical creature, right?

My hair might have very strong magic power!

(End of chapter)