System Scan, Wand Selection Operation!

[Acacia Wand (D-grade), Compatibility 48%]

[Applewood Wand (D-grade), Compatibility 53%]

[Ash Wand (D-grade), Compatibility 71%]

[Black Walnut Wand (D-grade), Compatibility 9%]

[Dogwood Wand (D-grade), Compatibility 37%]

Under Dudley's gaze, the system appraised every wand within sight and detected the corresponding compatibility data based on Dudley's [Exceptional Wizard Bloodline].

His earlier guess had been correct. Brand-new wands that had never recognized an owner were all rated D-grade by the system.

Only after recognizing an owner would they improve in rating through the nourishment of magic and the use of spells.

There was one possible exception to that rule: the SSS-grade Elder Wand in old Dumbledore's hand outside the shop.

One of the Deathly Hallows, a powerful wand said to have been created by Death himself.

It was impossible to know whether it had been SSS-grade from the moment it was created, or whether it had been nourished by Death's divine power after its creation, turning the ordinary into the miraculous and rising from D-grade to SSS-grade.

That was a secret difficult to verify. Dudley was only mildly curious about it. What mattered most to him now was finding the wand most compatible with him among several thousand wands.

He currently had two wands in hand.

The first was Diggle's C-grade wand, which had a compatibility rate of 62% with him, and that number was still slowly rising.

That was because his magic far surpassed Diggle's. After a bout of high-intensity magical infusion and spellcasting, this wand, which did not reject a change of owner, had abandoned darkness for the light and transferred its allegiance.

Aside from innate compatibility, powerful wizards could always gradually shape the wands in their hands into their own, provided the confiscated wand was not too stubborn.

Some extremely loyal wands rejected use by any wizard other than their owner. Forcing their use would weaken spells or produce some unwanted effect.

That had happened when Harry used Hagrid's Umbrella Wand.

The second was Quirrell's damaged B-grade wand. Its compatibility with him was only 23%; using it would make him constantly nervous, never knowing when a spell might mutate or even backfire.

To Dudley, this wand had fusion value, but almost no practical value.

So, in order to save time and fusion costs, and to fuse a wand at the lowest possible cost while fusion opportunities were plentiful so that he could obtain perfect [Wandless Casting], Dudley still needed to buy a new D-grade wand with high compatibility from Ollivanders Wand Shop.

If he ultimately decided not to attend Hogwarts and gained no more fusion opportunities, this new wand might even become his primary wand in the future.

"What do I see? Harry Potter! You've come! Thank goodness you've come! I've been waiting for you for so long!"

Just as Dudley searched all around for a new wand highly compatible with him, while Harry curiously looked around, an old wizard with silver-white eyes poked his head out from the narrow back room of the shop.

The earlier miniature earthquake had forced the outstanding wandmaker, Mr. Garrick Ollivander, to take brief shelter in the back room, where the protective spells were stronger.

Earlier, while drinking at the Leaky Cauldron, he had seen Dudley and Harry.

He knew that, barring any accidents, the famous Boy Who Lived would come later that day to his wand shop, which held an absolute monopoly in Britain's Wizarding World, to buy his first wand.

The earthquake had been an unexpected accident, and he had thought something might go wrong. Fortunately, the Boy Who Lived had still come.

Harry looked at his cousin. Seeing that Dudley did not intend to speak first, he answered himself, "Hello, Mr. Ollivander. My cousin and I are here to buy wands!"

"Of course you are! Most wizards who come here are here to buy wands! Come now! Let me measure you properly!"

As he spoke, Ollivander took an automatically extending tape measure, walked around the counter, and came to Harry's side.

The tape measure then began automatically measuring Harry's arm length, leg length, height, and even the distance between his eyes.

"Mr. Potter, which hand do you favor?"

"My right hand, sir!"

While taking measurements, Ollivander also asked Harry a question that made far more sense than measuring his dimensions.

Heaven knew why choosing a wand required measuring this and checking that.

Harry asked curiously, only to receive the answer that this was a special technique of the Ollivander Family.

After measuring a pile of data that might or might not be useful, Ollivander climbed a ladder.

From the wooden shelves stacked with countless wand boxes, he searched, selected one, handed it to Harry to test, received feedback that it was unsuitable, then continued searching for another wand for Harry...

It had to be said that, though the principle was unclear, not one of the wands Ollivander selected for Harry had a compatibility rate lower than 75%.

Through the system, Dudley could learn the compatibility between the [Weak Wizard Bloodline] fused into his body and the various wands. That bloodline had come from Harry's blood, and its compatibility data could roughly reflect Harry's own compatibility data.

While watching Harry test wands, Dudley's sweeping search also produced results.

Without troubling Ollivander, Dudley locked onto his target, charged up, leaped, and snatched down a wand box from the topmost shelf on the eastern side.

[White Poplar Wand (D-grade), dragon heartstring core, 13 inches long, compatibility with host: 98%]

No wand had higher compatibility than this one. This was data calculated based on the [Exceptional Wizard Bloodline] obtained by fusing the Philosopher's Stone.

The Philosopher's Stone was an alchemical item, not the blood of a wizard or magical creature.

The wizard bloodline obtained by fusing the Philosopher's Stone was not only immensely powerful, but also purer.

If Dudley had been born with a wizard bloodline, the wand most compatible with him would most likely still have been this one.

With 98% compatibility, he only needed to hold it and nourish it with magic for a few days to reach perfect compatibility. Fusing it then would grant Dudley perfect [Wandless Casting].

Here, Dudley had found the wand he desired. Over there, Harry's destined wand had also been selected.

"A Holly Wand, with a phoenix tail feather core, eleven inches long."

Ollivander looked at the wand in Harry's hand, which was spraying golden sparks, and introduced it. His silver-white eyes were filled with surprise and excitement. "It is very powerful, and it suits you very well, Mr. Potter.

More remarkably, it has a twin brother. Its core was made from the tail feather of the same phoenix, and that wand is in... in the hands of the wizard whose name no one dares speak. That wizard is very evil, but also very, very powerful!"

"You mean Voldemort?"

Harry frowned and asked directly.