Chapter 384 Wand Detection

Rita Skeeter's blonde hair was styled into delicate, stiff, and weird curls.

Combined with her fat face, she looked like a toad with a wig.

She wore a pair of jeweled glasses on her nose, and her fat fingers grasped a crocodile handbag. Her nails were two inches long and painted red.

In the second grade, Zhang Xiao and her had an intersection. It was at the first show of the Qingluan Society when it donated 32 flying brooms for the first time.

This woman tried to use her shorthand quill pen to write an article about her love and hatred with the so-called family - it was similar to Lei Yu.

Of course, she was taught a lesson by Zhang Xiao.

Zhang Xiao raised his eyebrows and gave her a signal. Rita understood. She smiled stiffly:

"Well - let's start our interview with a team of one person. I think readers must want to know about this mysterious school."

Good, sensible!

The two came to another small room inside the room. Zhang Xiao looked around. It should have been a broom room, but now there was an empty desk and two chairs.

There was a window here, and the warm sunlight was shining through the window, illuminating the room.

Rita Skeeter's thick fingers tightly grasped the crocodile leather handbag. The smile on her face was gone, only fear and nervousness.

"What do you want me to do? I haven't published any reports about you."

Zhang Xiao smiled and waved her to sit down:

"Don't be afraid, you did a good job. Every time you publish a report, you bypass the person I told you."

Rita Skeeter was relieved when she heard this. This little wizard was really scary. He was already very strong and domineering in the second grade.

Now he is three years older, and he looks like a young man. He looks kind and gentle, but Rita Skeeter has seen countless big men, and his eyes are very vicious.

How can you not see that this little wizard in front of you really has the ability to shut yourself up forever.

The reason why she dared to make up those characters before was because of her intelligence and vision. She knew which people could make up and which people could make up what things. She would never touch those that could not be touched.

In addition, she did eavesdrop on a lot of dirty stuff after becoming a beetle. These factors combined made her thrive in the newspaper industry.

Especially after coming to Hogwarts, she immediately heard about the terrifying things about the split clouds and the palace in the sky, and she became more and more afraid and terrified.

After waiting anxiously for a while, she heard the little wizard opposite her speak lightly:

"Do you have anything you want? Or something you desire?"

After a while, Malfoy saw Zhang Xiao and the famous columnist walking out of the room with a smile.

The two said something and separated. Rita looked for targets in the crowd again, and when she found a suitable one, she pulled the person into the small interview room for an interview.

"Zhang, what did you say to her? She is not a good person. She is very good at writing some exaggerated things, but strangely, there are some real secrets in her reports.

You have to be careful. If you say something, she will immediately misinterpret your meaning and fabricate a report of nonsense."

At the end, Malfoy added a sentence to support his statement:

"She also wrote about our family's affairs back then. My father spent a lot of effort and a lot of gold galleons to make her shut up."

Zhang Xiao patted his shoulder and said with a smile:

"Thank you, Draco, I know."

Malfoy nodded and said no more.

Well-I really didn't expect that this woman's hobby was actually peeping and writing gossip. What she likes most is to spread the half-true and half-false gossip she wrote.

It's almost the same as the "Mimeng" in the wizarding world, but she doesn't start with "men and women", she sells black materials.

So after Zhang Xiao promised that billions of people could see what she wrote, Rita Skeeter was so excited that she almost fainted.

He immediately expressed his willingness to pass on some news he had heard to Zhang Xiao - about the Death Eaters.

By the way, Zhang Xiao was going to introduce Rita Skeeter to The Sun as a column editor, and Lucius had such a way.

"Dumbledore!" Rita Skeeter suddenly said loudly, looking overjoyed. She hurriedly let go of a confused Ilvermorny student who had been fooled by her and thought that he would be on the front page of the Daily Prophet the next day and would become a star.

"How are you?" She said as she walked over and extended a manly hand to Dumbledore: "Have you read my article about the International Confederation of Wizards Conference in the summer?"

"It's great!" Dumbledore said kindly, his two blue eyes seemed to be recalling something: "I especially like the part where you described me as an old lunatic, the one where I threw a tantrum at the meeting."

Rita Skeeter didn't show any shame at all. As Zhang Xiao guessed, she knew who wouldn't care about her nonsense, and Dumbledore was obviously that kind of person.

"I just want to point out that some of your views are a bit outdated, Dumbledore, can I interview you-you know how crazy our readers are about the Super Goblet of Fire.

Countless owls fly to the newspaper headquarters every day. They are eager to know every detail of the competition. They will say in their letters - Damn it, why hasn't the competition started yet? Why we don't know any details.

So as one of the people in charge of Goblet of Fire, should you respond to these expectations? "

"I would love to hear your willingness to be interviewed, Rita." Dumbledore said, smiling and politely: "But I'm afraid we will have to discuss this issue later.

The wand testing ceremony was about to begin and I had to perform it. "

After saying that, he left directly and asked the warriors to sit down.

In front of a long table where several desks were joined together, the principals and officials sent by the Ministry of Magic were already sitting there. Sitting in the center was Ollivander.

The official sent by the Ministry of Magic was Ludo Bagman from the Sports Department. He stood up with a happy smile on his round face:

"Well - this wand test is to ensure that all contestants' wands function normally and are not damaged. Otherwise, if an accident occurs during a high-intensity battle, it will be over. After all, the backfire of the wand is not a small accident.

Next, I would like to ask Mr. Ollivander to conduct a wand test for everyone, based on the school. "

As soon as Ollivander's name was spoken, whispers of conversation immediately erupted in the classroom. As one of several wand masters in the world, Ollivander enjoys a high reputation, although he thinks he is the best. Bit.

But in fact, there are still a few people with a similar reputation to him. For example, Durmstrang's students bought it from a master named Gregovich, and the same is true for other schools.

Seeing that everyone was ready, Ludo Bagman began to roll call, and each little wizard stepped forward. Ollivander's voice was not loud, but it was enough for everyone to hear.

He inspected the little wizards' wands with skillful techniques, and reported the material, length, properties and core of each wand with unusual confidence.

It was also at this time that many young wizards realized that there were so many strange materials and wand cores in the world.

For example, the wizards from Castrobushe use many of their wand materials as Bethlehem wood, mahogany, flat poinciana, ebony, and wands made of banyan branches.

There are also all kinds of strange things in the core of the staff, such as the crest feathers of the feathered snake, the nerves of the caiman, the spider silk in the abdomen of the spider that never spins silk, the translucent dorsal spines of the White River Monster in Arkansas, the feathers of the thunderbird, the cat leopard hair

There are also some very unique wands that attract everyone’s attention at once.

For example, now, Ollivander inspected Fleur's wand: "Nine and a half inches...very strong...made of maple...contains...oh, my God..."

"Contains a Veela hair." Fleur said, "It's my grandma's hair."

Fleur indeed has Veela blood. Although everyone has rumors that she is a Veela, no one has confirmed it.

Ron's eyes were blurred and he murmured: "Harry, it's true that Veela can have children."

Harry:.

Finally, Ollivander used a special wand detection spell called Orchid Bloom to test it, and then said:

"Next. Let me see. Well, yes, it's Hogwarts' turn."

Several people stood up hurriedly and lined up to send the wands up.

""Ah, these are all my works, aren't they? He became obviously excited: "Yes, I remember it very clearly."

He reported everyone's wand data in detail.

"Mr. Diggory twelve and a quarter inches... made of oak... elastic. Unicorn hair."

"Mr. Malfoy, ten inches, hawthorn wood, unicorn hair, very elastic. By the way, you are the only unicorn hair in the Malfoy family. To be honest, I was surprised at first. The wand of the Malfoy family They are all custom made in my family.”

"Oh, Mr. Longbottom, I'm glad you got a new wand. I think it looks good. It's very good and well maintained!"

"Fourteen inches, willow wood, unicorn hair. Mr. Weasley, I am also very happy that you have changed your wand. In fact, I have been persuading your mother to change your wand. I think you can use your brother's old wand. Not your talent."

Ron's face turned a little red.

"Miss Granger, it's fourteen inches, made of vine wood, and has a dragon's heartstring core. It's a very good wand."

"Finally Mr. Potter"

Ollivander carefully put the wand in front of his eyes and admired it. He spent longer than the others.

"Yes, yes, yes. I remember it clearly."

After a while, he sighed and returned the wand to Harry, announcing that the wand was in very good condition.

Finally, he turned his attention to Zhang Xiao. Just as Ludo Bagman was about to announce, he heard Ollivander's voice:

"Oh - Mr. Bagman, please wait a moment."

Under everyone's confused gazes, Ollivander took out a box. After opening it, there was a pair of brand new white silk gloves and brand new eyepieces.

After putting on his gloves and eyepieces, he said with excitement and expectation:

"Please, Mr. Zhang, let me take a look at it again, the most outstanding work of my life!"

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