Ryan's Interest
"Besides the Seven Impossible Combinations, what other interesting combinations do you have here?" Riddle asked, stroking his wand.
He keenly noticed Dumbledore's gaze and began to change the subject.
"Interesting?"
"That's the special core of the staff."
"Their combination can only be described as perfect; it doesn't achieve the effect of one plus one being greater than two, like the Seven Impossible Combinations."
"What impressed me most were: the Thunder Mountain Dragon Heartstring, the Dragon Bone Marrow, the Giant Heartstring, and the most special Unicorn Heartstring," Ollivander began to recall.
"Unicorn Heartstring?" Riddle, who possessed a wand adorned with Unicorn Tail Hair, asked curiously.
The materials mentioned earlier were merely rare, but the latter were truly exceptional. Riddle had never heard of a wand with Unicorn Heartstring as its core.
"The Unicorn Blood are heavily cursed unless it willingly gives itself away,"
"I can understand if Unicorn voluntarily donates its blood, but voluntarily donating its body tissue, even its heart?"
"Could it be that someone invented a spell to make Unicorn 'voluntarily' do it?" Dumbledore's attention was indeed diverted by this.
Unicorn possess a pure magic that repels Dark Magic, and wands made from their tail hair are extremely loyal.
Destroying Unicorn's physical form is easy, but bewitching its mind is incredibly difficult, even for Dumbledore himself.
This is why Care of Magical Creatures are magical; they each have their own unique abilities and, in some aspects, far surpass wizards.
They are not as powerful as wizards, but wizards can easily control them with the Imperius Curse, and even a newborn Unicorn cannot be magically tempted to give up its blood.
If such a curse truly existed, then Unicorn farms would probably spring up everywhere, just like dragon farms.
This would cause a reshuffling of interest groups and even further affect the order of the Wizarding World. Thinking of this Dumbledore became serious.
"This is a miracle, not what you think." Ollivander was speechless.
"A miracle? May I try that Unicorn Heartstring wand?" Riddle said. Then, "Oh! I was just looking, but I'll take it with me!" Riddle said to the wand in its hand, and the wand stopped trembling.
Ollivander and Dumbledore were astonished. If they hadn't misread it, the wand had actually moved on its own. Judging from Riddle's exclamation, it had probably given him a hard blow.
"That wand already has an owner."
"I cannot disclose the owner's information."
"Also, that wand moved just now, didn't it?" Ollivander stared intently at the wand in Riddle's hand.
"What a pity."
"But what's so strange about it moving? You know, this is my wand. If it's not special, how could it be worthy of me?" Riddle then turned to Dumbledore and said, "Everything's settled. I think we should go back to Hogwarts."
"How much do you want?" Riddle finally asked Ollivander.
Upon hearing that the wand had been sold, Riddle's expression shifted from curiosity to annoyance in less than a second.
"Seven Galleons," Ollivander said, realizing the two were about to leave, and casually quoted a price.
Meanwhile, he kept thinking about whether there was any way to keep them, so he could check Riddle's wand or Dumbledore's.
Dumbledore and Riddle, however, refused and paid the bill directly. Under Ollivander's reluctant gaze, the two left the Wand Shop and embarked on their journey back to Hogwarts.
Ryan paid no attention to any of this in Diagon Alley or even Ollivander.
His wizarding intuition didn't warn him; after all, these things were more like candy to Ryan to relieve boredom—tasty but not essential.
Ryan had already planted the same anchor on Voldemort in the diary as Harry Potter the moment he broke through level 6.
This isn't because this part of Voldemort has anything that Ryan could learn or master, like the previous Harry —love.
In fact, Ryan had set such an anchor for all the characters he was interested in, except for Dumbledore was a level 6 and let him off the hook.
The anchor itself also serves to collect information; Ryan can watch what happened to the person anchored at any time, just like watching a video.
This way, Ryan can have time to do his own thing without worrying about missing out on exciting stories.
And Ryan is now observing the scene that interests him most.
If there's anything in the seven Harry Potter books that made Zhou Yi shed tears in his past life, it's Dobby's death.
It's worth noting that when Ryan was still Zhou Yi, even Dumbledore's death didn't make him shed tears.
"Dobby has no master!" the House-elf shrieked. "Dobby is a free House-elf, Dobby he came to rescue Harry Potter and his friends!"
Ryan still remembers those words even now.
But everything is different now than in the original timeline. Draco Malfoy has joined Harry Potter's team, replacing Hermione.
Lucius Malfoy went straight to Dumbledore's side.
The diary has also become an independent entity, and the Basilisk's scenes will likely be reduced to nothing in the next school year.
Without Lucius Malfoy putting the diary into Hogwarts, Dobby wouldn't have Dobby to "rescue" Harry, doing everything he could to prevent Harry from attending school or to drop out.
There was no further mention of Harry giving Dobby his socks and setting him free.
But there's no need to worry about that now, as an interesting scene unfolded at the Malfoy family mansion.
This is Wiltshire, the Malfoy family's fiefdom.
Outside the Malfoy Manor, the land that originally belonged to Malfoy has been transformed into towering buildings.
Only the area near the entrance attached to the Malfoy Manor remained deserted.
The tall, neatly trimmed Yew Tree formed a wall around the entire estate, completely impenetrable.
To the right of a wide driveway, stretching into the distance, are two imposing wrought-iron gates, the only physical entrance to the Malfoy Manor.
Meanwhile, a rustling sound continued as white peacocks gracefully swayed atop the hedge.
Behind the hedge was an unusually large garden, filled with a misty vapor created by fountains of various shapes and sizes.
Peacocks, flowers, mist, and rainbows refracted by the afternoon sun in the air bring a sense of harmony and tranquility to the Malfoy Manor at this moment.
Bang! The harmony was shattered by the appearance of a figure. The white peacock cried out, completely losing its previous graceful demeanor.
A hollowed-out silver artifact covered with dark and luxurious runes crashed heavily to the ground.
"Showy but impractical." Ryan sighed as he watched all this. The Portkey, which should have been made of the most unremarkable material, had been replaced with an eye-catching silver piece at the Malfoy family.
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