Hogwarts: Don't call me Wandmaker

Chapter 285 Gesture Magic and Wands

Sphinx Bar, third-floor guest rooms.

"Wait a minute." Bill stopped Siron, who had just taken out his wand, and said, "This should be a secret of the Ollivander family, right? Are you sure you want to tell me?"
"By the way, what I said before was just a joke, I wasn't really interested."

“It’s hardly a secret,” Siren shook his head. “Or rather, Ollivander doesn’t really have any secrets. Most of what I’ve learned can be found in wand books, including this…”

Xiren waved his wand, and a row of glowing runes immediately appeared in mid-air. These runes then moved and combined to form a strange symbol.

“This is…magic runes?” As one of the most outstanding graduates of Hogwarts, Bill certainly knew about magic runes, and he had never stopped studying them after graduation.

Because ancient Egyptian magic was also related to runes, a qualified spellbreaker must have a thorough understanding of runes in order to survive in the perilous pyramids.

"If I'm not mistaken, this symbol represents convergence and magic."

“That’s right.” Siron nodded. “This is also one of the core elements of the wand.”

“But I just noticed something very interesting,” Siron said, waving his wand again and turning the light in three special spots red.

This makes it even more intuitive.

"and many more……"

Bill and Lupin both fell into deep thought. Bill reacted faster, and after a moment, he looked at Siron in surprise.
Lupin reacted a little slower, but he also grasped the key point. He reached out and rotated his wrist according to the red mark...

Actions and memories gradually overlap.

“Gesture magic!” he exclaimed incredulously. “This is gesture magic… I can’t believe you learned this spellcasting technique after only seeing it once!”

"I wouldn't say I've mastered it; it's more like I stumbled upon a way to learn hand gesture magic by chance," Siren said.

"How did you figure that out?" Bill asked curiously. "It took me several months to figure that out."

“It’s very simple.” Xilun pointed to the symbol in front of him. “If you had carved this hundreds or thousands of times before, you would definitely be able to recognize it at a glance.”

"Hundreds or thousands of times?" Bill blinked. "Are you sure?"

“Of course,” Siron said. “As I said before, this symbol is one of the keys to making a wand. That is to say, every time I make a wand, whether I succeed or fail, I have to carve this symbol on the wand first.”

“I’ve been making wands since I was eight years old, so many years have passed, and I must have made hundreds of them.”

Bill smacked his lips, seemingly surprised by Xilun's diligence.

"So Mr. Ollivander sent you to Egypt..."

“That’s right, that must be it,” Siron said. “He knows I like to join in the fun, and he’s come all the way to Egypt, so he definitely wouldn’t miss anything interesting.”

The Merpta Magic Arena is the most interesting and lively place in all of Egypt. Once you come here, you're sure to notice the hand gesture magic.

“But why?” Lupin frowned and asked, “Gesture magic is amazing, but it’s completely different from a wand, isn’t it? Why would Mr. Ollivander show you this?”

“Because runes can be deduced both forwards and backwards,” Siren said. “First of all, it can already be determined that hand gesture magic is actually very similar to the process of making a wand in some aspects. Perhaps I can find common ground between the two.”

"Can you?" Bill asked.

“I’m not sure either, but there’s one thing…” Siren said, pointing again to the runes in front of him, “It wasn’t like this a few decades ago.” “Huh?” Lupin didn’t quite understand. “But didn’t you just say that this was the key to making wands?”

“That’s the key, it just looks a little different,” Xilun explained. “It used to be more complicated, about sixty years ago. My grandfather changed a few of the runes, and that’s how it looks now.”
"It has become simpler and more intuitive, and the effect has increased by 30%."

"Do you mean... that your grandfather got his inspiration from here?" Lupin asked in surprise.

“I can’t be 100% sure, but that should be the case,” Celen said.

Garrick's modifications to the runes happened decades ago, and the moment he finished, they immediately aligned with hand gesture magic—isn't that a bit too much of a coincidence?

Furthermore, Siren did a quick calculation and discovered that Garrick had just returned from traveling elsewhere before making the decision to change the runes on his staff.

As for where he went?

Xilun didn't know before, but now he does...

It's not here, it's Vagado, anyway, it's a place where gesture magic is prevalent.

Vagado is definitely the most authentic and purest, believing in the harmonious coexistence of magic and nature.

But the wizards there don't welcome outsiders, and since they believe in the harmonious coexistence of magic and nature, they rarely use magic. Even if Garrick went there, he might not be able to see it.

Therefore, Egypt is still the more likely candidate.

He saw it then and thought it was helpful, so decades later he recommended Xilun to come here.

Xiren stared at the symbol, muttering to himself in a way that Lupin and Bill couldn't understand.

How can the number of runes on the staff be increased reasonably? What would happen if the positions of these key points were changed? What are the choices and combinations of runes between the staff core and the staff body?

These were all rather technical topics related to wand making, and Lupin and Bill knew nothing about wands, so they could only watch from the sidelines.

"So, what are you planning to do?" A few minutes later, Bill interrupted Siron, who was talking to himself, and asked.

“If you find it too noisy here, I have another place to stay that I would recommend, but it’s a bit further away, about fifty miles away.”

“No, this place is fine.” Xiren shook his head and said, “Besides, I don’t plan to stay in the room all the time studying any changes to runes.”

His grandfather had graduated long ago, but he hasn't officially entered fourth grade yet, so there's no rush.

"So what are your plans?" Bill asked. "If I have the time later, I'll be happy to help you."

As a spellbreaker, Bill rarely has such a leisurely time. The main reason he was able to spend so much time with Siron was that the fairies' attention was focused on the Halleli Magic Market, and their work here had come to a temporary standstill.

But this is only temporary; he can't keep wandering around with Xilen forever.

"No, no need. You go about your business. I'm just going to watch the duel."

"A duel?" Lupin immediately turned his head.

“That’s the duel we watched today,” Xiren said with a smile. “Such a wonderful duel, how can we only watch it once? Of course we have to watch it several times.”

(End of this chapter)