I look at my mother and ask, "Are we going to Ollivanders now?"My mother nods her head, "He is the only one that is barely pa.s.sable in this place."
I accept it as it is, and what I do not know is that with all the time I spent with my mother my mindset has changed a lot, I stopped worshipping or revering powerful like Dumbledore and Voldemort and started to treat and think of them as my equal.
We enter the wand shop and Mr. Garrick Ollivander comes out from the back.
"Good afternoon Mr. Ollivander, I have come in today to get my wand." I say
"Yes, yes starting out at Hogwarts if I am to be correct, and what would be your name?" says Ollivander
"Caelum Lovegood" I answer back
The wand maker nods his head "Ah, the young genius of potions."
Then Ollivander looks that my mother and asks, "You did not get a wand from me, yes, I remember every wand that leaves my shop."
All my mother does is smile.
Ollivander moves on "If you would hold out the hand you primarily use, good."
I held out my right hand while the Ollivander"s magical tape began measuring my hand and my body then Ollivander started bringing out different boxes and took out wands for me to try. I tried from one to another and Ollivander kept on bringing me different wands to try but all of them did not just click for me, yes, I could use them, but it kept on resisting me like it knows that I was not destined for it.
The pile of tried wands grow and grow, until Ollivander started muttering to himself and looked at me for a while.
"You are a tough customer Mr. Lovegood, it seems like I will have to bring out my rarer goods."
I tried all six rare wand Ollivander had, I even think Harry"s future wand was in the mix.
"It seems like all my wands do not work for you Mr. Lovegood, hmm, it seems like I will have to make one for you."
At that moment my mother pitches in "It seems like you are done wasting our time and are ready to get to the real business."
"Whatever do you mean miss?" asks Ollivander
My mother scoffed "You know what I mean Ollivander, there is a big difference between a ready-made wand and a wand tailor made for you."
Ollivander nods his head "It seems like you know your wandlore"
"Yes, I do, I am willing to pay any amount of Gallons for you to make a good wand for my son so I do not want any riff raff materials but the best of the best, also use your families gift to see my son"s affinity, and do not put that pesky ministry tracker in my son"s wand, I am willing to put in extra Gallons for your trouble." my mother says
I laugh to myself, Ollivander must be shocked with all the orders my mother quickly fired of to him and I think I see his all-knowing persona slipping.
"Yes, yes, I shall see to that is all done miss, eh, I never really did catch your name if I am to be correct." says the wand maker
"It is Pandora Lovegood." my mother answers
Ollivander nods his head, turns to looks at me, stares at me for quite some time, and it felt like he is looking deep inside me.
"You have very interesting affinities boy, the stars and death. I have the perfect core for you, the handle, and the focus crystal could be easily covered, but I wonder what should be the material. That one has been sitting here for a while now, we could try that one." he runs off to the back of the store and comes back carrying a suit case of sorts.
Ollivander opens it and a beautiful piece of black colored metal with bright little lights coming in and out of exsistance is sitting right inside the suit case.
"This was found by my grandfather, he found it when he was travelling, and he came across this metal when he heard about something falling from the sky near a muggle village." he says
My mother speaks up and her eyes are glowing with delight, "It is perfect, use this to make my son"s wand, I will make sure you are properly paid."
"It seems like Ms. Lovegood knows what this is." says Ollivander
My mother snorts, "Do not worry about that, how long will it take you to finish making the wand."
"nine days" answers the wand maker
My mother nods her head and leaves the store, I say my goodbyes to the wand maker and follow after my mother.
I catch up to my mother and ask, "Mom what was that metal?"
"It is called a starmetal, it comes from a star and on rare occasions a star would spit it out." my mother says
"What about that ministry tracker?"
My mother rolls her eyes, "How do you think the Ministry knows you kids do magic over the summer and how does it find out some people are up to dark magic."
"That makes sense, so Ollivander puts trackers in his wand for the Ministry?"
My mother nods her head, "It is the same for all wand makers, do you think any Ministry will let them operate if they didn"t, but the wand makers hate the Ministry for making them do that, so they would not mind going behind the Ministry"s back to remove a tracer for the right price."
"So, you where lying to me when you said the Ministry has a big machine that can notice any unauthorized and illegal magic?" I ask
My mother sighs, "Yes, and I did it for your own good, I did not want you to go behind my back and try some magic then get hurt badly."
I could understand why my mother did that and a part of me already know that the giant machine was bogus, but I could use this incident to blackmail my mother to get me some stuff I want.