After the three discussed the Floo Network, they began talking about the real matter—the so-called Ancient Magic.
At that moment, Harry suddenly mentioned that he had heard the term before, not long ago, in Ollivander's wand shop.
Not long ago, he had taken this year's new students to Diagon Alley to buy supplies. While chatting with Ollivander in the shop, the old man had accidentally knocked down an ancient ledger while searching for wands. After opening it and taking a look, he began telling them about his family's history of wandmaking as he selected wands for the new students.
It was the same old spiel—promoting his own wands, saying his family had made wands for however many years, that it was not people choosing wands, but wands choosing their wielders.
As he spoke, he brought up Harry's wand, Voldemort's wand, Dumbledore's wand, and so on. Then he mentioned that several centuries ago, one of his ancestors had made a wand for a very special person.
That person was considered special because they were a transfer student unlike any Hogwarts had ever seen. They entered directly into their fifth year and could use a unique magical power. Supposedly, that was Ancient Magic, and it seemed they had caused some major incident as well.
But Harry did not know what had ultimately happened to that person, and neither did anyone else.
According to Mr. Ollivander, all the specific information had been covered up by the "bitch" Blake, who had been Hogwarts's headmaster at the time.
The Ollivander family only knew about it because a few scraps of gossip had been secretly passed down within the family. They had paid attention to the matter because that student had been too unusual—especially since the person vanished without a trace after barely a year and