Graphorn Rowan
Skylar chose the heartstrings of a Graphorn as the Graphorn.
The Graphorn is a dangerous and aggressive Magical Creatures found in the mountains of Europe. It has a large body, a humpbacked back, two very sharp golden horns on its head, and walks on Padfoot with four toes.
Mountain Troll sometimes ride on the backs of Graphorn, seemingly taming them. But in reality, if you look closely, it's not unusual to see Mountain Troll covered in scars inflicted by Graphorn, and it's not uncommon for Troll to have been killed by Graphorn.
The thick, grayish-purple hide of the Graphorn has the highest magic resistance among all Fantastic Beasts, and in terms of defense alone, it is stronger than Fire Dragon, Basilisk, and Quintaped.
Skylar naturally chose a wand made of purslane, known for its defensive properties. In fact, all members of the Bones family would invariably be chosen by the Ollivander Family for purslane, and Susan's wand was no exception.
However, there are many kinds of mountain pear wood. As mentioned in Chapter 80 of Volume 4 of this book, there is a very rare kind of mountain pear wood that grows on top of other mountain pear woods, namely "Soaring Rowan".
Wands made from this type of wood are naturally suited for casting defensive magic. It is said that this type of wand is also the only one in the world that can rival the Elder Wand in power—the two wands, one good at offense and the other good at defense, represent two extremes in the field of Wandlore.
The raw materials are not difficult to obtain.
Although Graphorn are rare, they were no challenge for Gulana, the sister of the International Confederation of Wizards. With just a word from Skylar, she quickly obtained a heartstring for him.
The real problem is that, in order to unleash the full power of the Graphorn's Heartstrings, it requires a lot of special processing.
Like all Fantastic Beasts with volatile temperaments, their materials, when used as wand cores, suffer from the same problem: they are extremely sensitive and changeable, resulting in highly unstable effects. This is precisely why Master Ollivander abandoned his ancestral craft and focused solely on creating wands with only three types of cores: Dragon Heartstring, Phoenix Tail Feather, and Unicorn Tail Hair. It's not that other cores lack power, but rather that their effects are far less stable than these three.
There are two ways to handle this situation.
The first method is to directly suppress it using the wizard's overwhelming magical power, forcing it to submit. Leaving aside whether Susan's magical abilities are sufficient (it has to be Susan, Skylar cannot do it), doing so would cause the staff core to lose its original vitality and spirit. Can a magical beast that has lost its bestial nature and "surrendered" still be considered a magical beast?
The second method is to gain its approval. This method is much more difficult than the first, but it avoids the cost of stripping the raw material of its vitality and spirituality, which Skylar considered well worth it.
Skylar used soul magic to nurture the remnant soul of the Graphorn that remained on his heartstrings, then used Dark Arts to extract the soul from them and infused it into Susan's body using the House of Black's soul secret technique, where it intertwined and entwined with Susan's soul. This method was indeed somewhat risky; if the Graphorn's soul were to become malevolent, it might harm Susan's soul.
But Susan insisted that Skylar do so. She was already the weakest of the six girls, and she didn't want to hold them back.
After careful consideration, Skylar agreed to her request. Since joining the Sleeping Dragon Society and becoming a core member, Susan's determination, will, and perseverance have been evident to all. It is almost fair to say that she has put in the most effort among all of them to enhance her strength.
Of course, what Skylar didn't tell her was that he had secretly placed an insurance policy for her: if Susan were to suffer a crisis of soul damage, the curse Skylar had planted in the Graphorn's soul would activate on its own and destroy it.
In the end, Susan did not disappoint Skylar, Susan the backup plan Skylar had prepared was not needed. Susan relied on her willpower to fight against the remnant soul of the Graphorn for a full seven days, finally gaining the Graphorn's approval.
The moment Susan touched that heartstring, the magic attached to it immediately resonated with Susan. The faint howl of Graphorn echoed in the void, and a ring of air burst out from Susan in all directions. Even with Skylar's physical strength, he had to take a few steps back to offset the impact.
[The "Graphorn Heartstrings" are a perfect match for Susan!]
As for Soaring Rowan, it grows on Bowtruckle Island in the middle of the Black Lake at Hogwarts. Of course, like the Unicorn tree, only those with the purest hearts can cut down Soaring Rowan, so even if one knows its location, ordinary people cannot cut it down.
This was certainly no challenge for Skylar.
Skylar repeated the same trick he had used in Professor Gela-Plan's Care of Magical Creatures, using Human Transfiguration to transform his appearance into that of a pure and holy maiden, easily deceiving the mountain pearwood's senses and cutting off the branch it needed.
The process of making the wand was no different from that of making Sarf's Snakewood Wand, both using elemental rituals inherited from Ravenclaw. However, this time Skylar no longer needed to search for materials such as Horned Serpent, Runespoor, or Cockatrice.
Using four drops of his own blood, he combined Human Transfiguration and elemental magic to transform himself into a Salomanda Fire Salamander, an Undine, a Sylph, and a Gnome, which he then sacrificed in a ritual. These four species represented the most primordial state of the elements, while Skylar's blood contained astonishing vitality, variability, and bloodline power. This method was not only economical and convenient, but also just as effective.
The moment the wand was formed, Susan and the wand successfully triggered the phenomenon of "man and wand becoming one." Her magic power was originally the same as Morrie's, just entering the level of a beginner Auror. However, after the magic power of her and the wand merged seamlessly, her magic power obviously increased by a lot, catching up with Cho Chang Qiu's level, and she became one of the best Auror.
Even more terrifying, Susan experienced the second magical surge in her life, with the power of her bloodline being activated. As one of the most powerful Pure-blood families in the wizarding world, the Bones family's heritage is not much inferior to that of the Sacred Twenty-Eight, as can be seen from Susan's magical surge this time.
The surge of magical energy was astonishing, comparable to Daphne's surge last month.
Susan's magical outburst was indeed unexpected by Skylar. Logically, this phenomenon shouldn't occur; the fusion of magic between a wizard and their wand should only enhance magic, not bloodline power. Sarf hadn't witnessed this when she helped Sarf craft her Snakewood Wand.
However, he overlooked one point.
The bond between Susan and the Soaring Rowan Wand goes far beyond mere "woman and wand as one." She also possesses fragments of the Graphorn's remnant soul!
At the same time as the "human and staff become one" phenomenon occurred, she also fused and absorbed the fragments of the Graphorn's remnant soul, which transformed into a pure and magical energy that flowed into her limbs and bones.
Then, the magical upheaval occurred.
At this moment, Susan was as if she were enveloped by a small white energy shield radiating a sacred and solemn aura. With a series of buzzing sounds, the white energy shield visibly shrank, eventually transforming into an ivory-white humanoid skeleton phantom that merged into Susan's body.