Civilization and Harmony Hogwarts

Chapter 134 Magic Wand 2

Afu reached out to touch the snakewood wand lying quietly surrounded by black velvet cloth.

There was a cool smooth touch from her fingertips.

"You want to give him this wand."

A familiar voice sounded and fell into Afu's ears.

It should be a question sentence pattern, but I can't hear any meaning other than statement.

Afu raised his head and looked at the reddish-brown serpentine wood picture frame hanging on the wall in front of him.

The figure of the young Salazar appeared on the picture in the frame at some unknown time.

He looked at Afu with a good eye, obviously it should be condescending, but Salazar's demeanor did not reveal the arrogance of the past.

Some are just peaceful.

Afu and Salazar looked at each other for a long time, before speaking first to break the silence.

Afu didn't directly answer Salazar's words directly, but talked about a seemingly irrelevant topic.

"Papa Sara." Afu's voice was full of undefended dependence and helplessness, "I feel..."

"There's no way I'm going to be fair -- when it comes to Tom Jr."

"I'm always subconsciously partial to him."

"Looking at little Tom, I always want the best for him..."

In front of Afu's eyes, the appearance of little Tom calling his sister sweetly appeared in a trance.

"He is so completely dependent and trusting in me."

"I know very well that the current him is not enough for you to admit that he is not qualified to hold this wand that you made and used, but..." Afu paused, a little ashamed, "I always I feel that the yew wand he once owned, though powerful, will always be bound by the properties of the twin wand."

"And he... shouldn't be bound by the wand."

"Or, I never fully believed the 'wand chooses the wizard' nonsense that Ollivander kept saying."

Referring to Ollivander's "Wand Talk", Afu's tone gradually became agitated.

"The wand is just a tool, a tool that can help wizards cast spells faster, better, and more accurately. Powerful wizards can cast spells without a wand, and even ancient wizards basically didn't rely on wands to cast spells."

Afu unconsciously pinched the thick embroidered tablecloth on the round table in front of her.

"You also specially made this snakewood wand to better teach young wizards—to experience what it's like to cast spells with a wand."

"It was later discovered that using the wand correctly can help save mana, and you started to use the wand to cast spells out of the psychology of maximizing your benefits."

Afu didn't quite agree with the sentence that every Ollivander said.

"It's not so much about 'the wand chooses the wizard', it's better to say that when the wand maker is making the wand, he subconsciously conceives a silhouette of the future owner of the wand based on the characteristics of the wand material, and then instills it in, and the wand has never been faithful. It's all about choosing a master for yourself based on the wizard's magic power fluctuations and your fit."

"Ollivander often said that a wizard who holds a wand made of a certain kind of wood should have such qualities, but don't other wizards have those good qualities?"

"Those chosen by the magic wand that symbolizes bravery, are they really not cowardly in the face of difficulties? Don't those wizards who are chosen by the magic wand that symbolizes wisdom sometimes be stupid?"

"It's because people first endow something with a certain characteristic and a certain symbolic meaning, so human beings will subconsciously move everything closer to the established 'principle and fact' later."

"The wand will only have different sensitivities and different amplification strengths to different spells according to the characteristics and properties of the material."

"Silver Basswood is more compatible with Legilimency, so using it to cast Legilimency will be easier to succeed; the attribute of unicorn feathers is biased towards purity, so it resists black magic that is relatively evil..."

Afu's meaning was unclear, but Salazar could fully understand what she meant.

"As for the fact that sometimes little wizards can use their parents' wands to exert great strength, this involves the level of emotional strength." Afu added.

"In Ollivander's wand shop, the yew wand is undoubtedly the most suitable for Tom, but it has a fatal flaw. It is restricted and bound by the characteristics of twin wands."

"And what about the Elder Wand?" Salazar suggested.

Afu shook her head: "As one of the Three Deathly Hallows made by the Peverell family, the Elder Wand is undoubtedly compatible with all wizards to an amazing height, but the so-called most powerful The Elder Wand's allegiance is only to the strongest, and there has never been a consistent loyalty."

"And Tom, what he hates the most is being abandoned." Afu completely passed the option of the Elder Wand.

"I want the best for him, and this wand you once made, Papa Sarah..."

"It's within my ability, and the best wand I can find for him is the best." Afu said with some embarrassment, "I know he doesn't have that qualification yet, but..."

"But as little Tom grew up by my side day by day, and I witnessed everything in his life, my heart subconsciously turned towards him."

Salazar stared at Afu's embarrassed and struggling appearance, but felt a little relieved in his heart.

In fact, the process of raising Tom is not the process of Afu gradually gaining more humanity?

Afu, who was born out of the consciousness of Hogwarts Castle, although she has a human appearance, is actually more of a creation inside.

She would prefer little wizards, put protection and teaching little wizards first, and would even sacrifice herself for little wizards—this was the meaning of the birth of Hogwarts Castle.

And Afu also regards this as the meaning of her existence.

If Afu had never appeared in front of them, if they had never gotten along with Afu, then they would be very happy that the castle consciousness took the idea of ​​"little wizard is the most important" as a standard.

But Afu appeared, and she appeared in front of them alive.

When she was young, she would hug their thighs, sit on the ground and spread her fleshy arms to ask for a hug, and use her immature strength to help them do some things to lighten their burden—— Even if these things seem insignificant and insignificant to them.

As far as Afu is concerned, people's hearts are biased, and they will always subconsciously lean to one side.

And Afu was the one they preferred.

They expect her to be more human-like to learn human selfishness and learn to protect herself.

They hope that Afu can have her own life, not just live for the little wizard.

Originally, they had a lot of time to teach and guide Afu, but the injury caused by the betrayal of the Muggle-born wizard disrupted their plans.

Afu was forced to fall into hibernation because of the serious damage to the castle itself. The four of them died one after another. ——Afu was also forced to wake up because of the damage to her body.

Salazar looked at Afu, who was beginning to learn to be eccentric, with eyes full of relief.

'For the sake of making Afu more human...'

Salazar suppressed the inexplicable sourness in his heart.

"I promise you." Salazar said with relief.

Afu looked in astonishment at the handsome young man with blond hair and green eyes in the portrait.

"If one day in the future, he can get my real approval, I will allow him to inherit this wand." Salazar added the premise lightly to Afu's disbelieving eyes.

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ps: The description of the wand in this chapter is all made up by me!I feel that wand learning is just like constellations. The more you study it, the more mysterious it becomes, but in fact its original characteristics are endowed by humans. If you use the things defined by humans to define humans, it is a similar "pre-existing" The chicken-and-the-egg paradox—was there a wizard who fit the description of the wand first, or was there a wand that represented a specific quality first?