In Journey to the West, there was a story about how Sun Wukong, after learning the Seventy-Two Transformations from Patriarch Subhuti, was told by Patriarch Subhuti that he could leave the mountain.
Before he left, Patriarch Subhuti set one condition: Sun Wukong could not tell anyone that Patriarch Subhuti had taught him his abilities.
Many people were fighting over the Elder Wand, but wandmakers were more interested in learning how it had been made.
The "Elder Wand," with a Thestral hair core and an elder wood shaft, had been stolen by Grindelwald from Gregorovitch. However, whether it was truly the Elder Wand or one made by Gregorovitch himself was impossible to know.
Nearly all those who had possessed the Elder Wand throughout history had been notorious Dark wizards, including the famous fifteenth-century demon Emeric. Yet he had been "slaughtered" in a duel with the monster Egbert.
In theory, possessing the strongest wand made a wizard the strongest. But fate did not always favor the strong. Compared to Severus, the "Elder Wand" had chosen Draco, a boy as delicate as a girl.
Draco would never become someone capable of shouldering great responsibilities in his life.
All bark and no bite, a pretty cushion, all show and no substance—any of those could describe Draco.
That strange wand had made a blind choice. By what standard had it chosen Draco Malfoy?
Had that old fool calculated things so precisely? Had he known the Elder Wand would choose Draco rather than Severus, the man who killed him?
Pomona felt that the old fool had only been thinking of using his death to help Severus regain Voldemort's trust. He had not thought that far ahead, which was why Draco had disarmed him so easily.
He was not Grindelwald. He could not predict the future.
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