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Dolly felt a little regretful, thinking she should have increased her intelligence earlier.

She then realized that throughout her first year, she didn't actually have much intellectual freedom.

It was only after Quirrell was killed that she was able to waste a few attribute points according to her own wishes.

Dolly was relieved.

Then she began to wonder what this level of intelligence represented.

The perception of magic, the control of magic, and anything else?

Dolly asked Miss Door, but the answer was still no comment; Dolly had to experience it for herself.

Dolly had anticipated this, and was neither bothered nor surprised.

On the surface, she was inspecting the wood, but secretly she was trying to control the flow of magic within her body and sense the presence of magic outside her body.

He even secretly prepared to cast a spell with his wand to see if intelligence had any effect on the release.

In the end, Dolly helplessly discovered that the 3 points of Intelligence at most made her spellcasting faster and smoother, and it seemed that she could achieve a certain degree of silent spellcasting.

After all, Dolly had been flicking her fingers all day, essentially practicing silent, staffless spellcasting.

While we are still far from being able to cast spells without a staff, we are already showing some signs of silent spellcasting.

As expected, 3 points of intelligence are still not enough to cause a qualitative change.

Even in attributes like strength and agility, Dolly only surpassed ordinary people after reaching 4 points.

You should definitely keep increasing your Intelligence stat, maybe even raise it to 4?

Looking at her remaining 18 attribute points, Dolly hesitated for a moment.

After all, increasing her intelligence doesn't seem to help improve her combat power right now, and adding a little magic would require 30 attribute points.

If we continue wasting resources, we might have to postpone increasing our magic power even further.

At this moment, Ollivander interrupted Dolly, telling her that she didn't need to think about it anymore.

"Looks like you've figured it out."

Ollivander seemed a little excited, his weathered face showing a childlike expectation.

Dolly smiled slightly, blindfolded herself with a veil, and began her performance.

Although somewhat awkward, Dolly eventually managed to identify the wood Ollivander handed her and gave him a satisfactory answer.

“Clearly, Miss Dursley, I was right; you do have a talent for this.”

Ollivander rubbed his hands together excitedly. At this point, Dolly actually had the basics to make wands.

What she will be learning in the next period of time is how to combine magical creature materials with wood.

This process can be simple in some ways, and complex in others.

Simply put, it involves gluing the magical material to the center of the wood and then ensuring that the magical material doesn't break.

In more complex terms, it involves the combination of materials, the processing of materials, the reinforcement of magical materials, and the arrangement of curves within the wood...

Yes, magical materials are not actually a straight line in wood, but rather have their own beautiful curves and even the intersection and arrangement of multiple lines.

However, these are all closely guarded secrets of the Ollivander family, and Ollivander hasn't yet decided whether to teach them to Dolly as well.

However, before this problem needs to be solved, Ollivander can still train Dolly into an apprentice, just as he initially promised.

"Now, let's get to know the materials of magical creatures together."

After Ollivander finished speaking, he led Dolly to his workbench.

Starting today, Dolly will begin assisting Ollivander.

Ollivander couldn't afford to neglect his work; the new school term was about to begin, and a new batch of young wizards would be coming to his wand shop to choose their own wands.

Ollivander couldn't let the young wizards come in excitedly and leave disappointed.

Therefore, he had to try all sorts of possibilities and prepare as many different types of wands as possible.

However, Ollivander could explain things to Dolly while he was working.

For example, what he is making now is a wand made of beech wood and the heart and nerves of a fire dragon.

"The wizards who are truly suited to the Beech Wand are those who possess superior intelligence compared to their peers among young people, and outstanding comprehension and rich experience among adults."

Ollivander explained to Dolly using words different from those in books, based on his own experience: "But beech wood is not suitable for narrow-minded and prejudiced people."

“Wizards with this kind of personality usually acquire beech wands without proper matching. They will usually find an experienced wandmaker, like me, and then question why their beautiful wands lack power.”

"Then I can only tell him that he doesn't deserve such a wand."

"Those who can use this wand correctly will achieve great things together with the wand, creating a glorious reputation."

After processing the beech wood, Ollivander showed Dolly the heartstrings of the dragon.

"Generally speaking, wands made from dragon nerves are the most powerful and produce the most dazzling spells. Wands with dragon nerve cores have a greater learning ability than other wands."

"Although they can accept changing hands—if the new master defeats the original wand master—they are very compatible with their current masters."

"Wands made from dragons are usually the most prone to bowing to the dark magic, but they will not voluntarily veer towards it."

"They are also the most prone to accidents among the three types of cane cores, and their performance is the most unstable."

Next, Ollivander began to trim the dragon's heartstrings with his sharp silver blade, then cut one of the dragon's heartstrings into even finer lines.

Dolly was stunned by what she saw, while Ollivander laughed proudly and said, "Unless we have a perfect enough dragon heartstring, we can use this method to enhance its stability."

Then, Ollivander re-wove these dragon heartstrings together, turning them into a shape that resembled a thin braid.

"This treatment will weaken the power of the fire dragon's heartstrings, especially when using black magic."

"In fact, it will become more stable because our magic actually flows through every single heartstring. Even if one of them gets upset, the rest can still work steadily."

After saying that, Ollivander winked at Dolly.

He had something he didn't say, but Dolly seemed to understand at that moment.

Recalling Ollivander's words, what was the unspoken meaning behind them?

The Beech Wand, when combined with the Heartstrings of the Fire Dragon, can create some very powerful wands.

Some wizards, in pursuit of such wands, will use wands that are not perfectly equipped.

So where did these wands that weren't perfectly matched come from?

This is clearly not a wand made by the Ollivanders, because in Ollivanders' view, the importance of matching is even greater than the wand's power.

It's also unlikely that it came from another wandmaker, because other wandmakers would probably follow a similar process to Ollivander's, at most just not as good as Ollivander's.

The concept of wand matching is basically completely transparent at Ollivanders, and other artisans who are not as skilled as Ollivanders will naturally learn it quickly.

Then the origin of these beech wands that were not perfectly matched becomes clear.

Someone stole them from their original owner in pursuit of greater power.

Such people are mostly, or even extremely likely, not good people, and may all be proficient in dark magic.

Now Ollivander is making his beech wands more suitable for good people who don't use or rarely use dark magic.

Beech wands were never really suitable for some dark wizards with extreme personalities. Now, after Ollivander's treatment, it's basically no different for these dark wizards to get their hands on a piece of junk.

So Dolly laughed.

The old man and the young man looked at each other and then burst into happy smiles.

Although they knew that the wand was unlikely to harm a dark wizard, if a dark wizard did get tricked by Ollivander's wand, then it would be pure bad luck and deserved.

After that, Ollivander began to meticulously craft the wand.

Dolly also discovered that the inner core, woven from the dragon's heart nerve cutting threads, had several special curves inside the wand, seemingly forming some kind of special pattern.

However, Dolly wisely refrained from asking further questions, as Ollivander had no intention of revealing the truth.

From the moment Dolly began learning to make wands, Ollivander always took the initiative to teach her, and he had basically prepared everything without Dolly needing to ask.

So when Dolly has questions, it's most likely because Ollivander doesn't want to teach her certain things.

Dolly understood that this was a secret the Ollivander family could never reveal, and her pursuit of the wand hadn't reached that point.

So the two of them tacitly agreed once again, and a week later, Dolly officially began to try to prepare various materials.

From the wood to the core, Dolly truly became Ollivander's assistant, and some of the materials she created were eventually used by Ollivander to assemble several wands.

Ollivander looked at the wands, tried them out briefly, and then smiled with satisfaction.

Then, when he engraved "Made by Ollivander" on the handle of the wand, he engraved Dolly's name after Ollivander's.

Dolly was flattered, but Ollivander said, "This is an honor you deserve. Although it is only a very basic wand, do not underestimate Miss Dursley."

"You are already one of the ten best wand makers in the entire British magical world."

Dolly smiled happily, though she really wanted to complain: wasn't this because there were fewer people in the British wizarding world?

"Next..."

Ollivander handed the workbench to Dolly, saying, "It's your turn to make your first wand."

“I stop to rest at five o’clock every night because my work is almost ready.”

“You have one hour each day to use my workbench and tools.”

"Of course, you can still prepare and brainstorm at your location during the rest of the day."

"The rest is up to you."

After speaking, Ollivander left his workbench, put on his hat and coat, and cheerfully walked out of the store to buy groceries and cook dinner.

He left the entire wand shop to Dolly without giving her any further instructions, seemingly not worried at all that Dolly might steal a wand or do anything out of line.

The same is true.

After spending almost a month together, Ollivander has learned a lot about Dolly.

For example, Dolly is very rich, probably richer than most wizards in the entire wizarding world.

This is not surprising; it's possible that Dolly has wealthy Muggle parents.

Then there's Dolly, who is very sensible and not clumsy like a child, and who strongly supports and endorses his ideas.