The Morphagus
Chapter 1
By Cathy-Ann
In the time when Pontius Pilate was Governor of Jerusalem there lived a man who could heal people. Some thought he was a magician and used magic to do the healing, but when he raised a man named Lazarus from the dead completely healed and restored as though he were never dead, then they knew he was using power beyond that of magic.
The best a magician could hope for in raising the dead was Necromancy and even then the dead person no longer had their own soul in their body. It is also why Necromancy was outlawed and anyone practicing it was killed outright, their body burned and their ashes scattered.
The healer was taken and false evidenced provided at his trial. He was condemned to be executed that day, by scourging and then crucifixion. Scourging consisted of using a whip made with leather straps which had bits of bone and stone embedded in the ends. When struck with such a whip, the bits of bone and stone cut into the flesh and actually ripped the flesh. He got forty lashes with that whip. As a joke one of his roman tormentors took a branch from a bush and formed it into a crown made from a thorn bush with sharp thorns.
That crown was fitted to the mans head, before they forced him to lift up the wood cross beam to carry to the garbage dump, several miles away. Halfway there he stumbled, so another man was chosen to carry it for him the rest of the way.
After he was nailed to the cross and lifted up, the blood began to run down from his wounds, down the cross and onto the ground. Alexander Ollivander was watching this event. He felt that truly Joshua was a man of God, an innocent man and he was being murdered by those in the church who ran it.
Alexander Ollivander was known as a Physician and was allowed many leniencies. He was allowed to take a vial and collect some of the blood running down the cross. Later he was allowed to take one of the thorns from the crown made of thorns. Later at home he took out the wing feather from the Cherubim from Eden and the fruit seed from the Holly Tree. The Holly tree is known as the tree of life. He made a wand using the wood from the Holly Tree. The core from the fruit seed of a Holly tree, a thorn from the crown of thorns, wrapped within the Cherubim wing feather, dipped in the blood from the cross and encased in wood from a Holly tree..
Such power the wand had for a future wizard when a source of power for the light side, the good side, the side of THE MOST HIGH. The wand was tucked away and well hidden. Ollivander went back to England to his business of wand making. His family had been making wands for several centuries now.
The centuries come and they go. One day a young man walks into the store, 20 years before Harry Potter is born. This young man, a teenager, has very much power. Ollivander tells him to hold out his arm so he can be measured. The kid holds out his arm and then speaks in an ancient language and the Wand of Power flies into the hand of the young man. When he closes his fingers around the wand, a great white light engulfs the man. Flapping wings appear around him and then the light fades. Ollivander could have sworn he heard voices talking when the light was at its brightest. Great hope and fear course through Ollivander as he trembles in awe at the power displayed.
The man sets a stack of $100 bills in american money on the desk top and says, 'even with the exchange rate of 8 to 1, this should suffice. This is $56,000.00 or about 7,000 galleons.
Ollivander hands the man the wand box, a cleaning kit and a wand holster. The man smiles, thanks him and teleports away in the year 1960 A.D. Ollivander makes a floo call to Albus Dumbledore and tells him a man came to his shop a few minutes ago, waved his hand and spoke in an ancient language. The Wand of Power flew into that mans hand. When the kid gripped the wand in his hand, he was surrounded by a great white light and wings were seen flapping within the light. He could swear he also heard several voices as well.
Tears of Joy filled the eyes of Albus Dumbledore. The first Supreme Mugwumpus had come forth and from America no less. Then Dumbledore remembers the motto of the american muggles, 'IN GOD WE TRUST'.
One of Sylvia Trelawney ancestors gave a Prophecy years before. Albus Dumbledore and Minerva McGonagall were witnesses to it.
"two became one, powers of the divine
one of two the child shall live, male nor female either shall be
until the day a life is saved, until the day two lives are reborn
powers of the divine, one shall become two,
two with power from the mind of the divine."
Another prophecy was made many years before Alexander Ollivander traveled to Jerusalem. It was since hidden away in Ollivander's wand shop. Alexander knew of that prophecy, so he made a wand for it.
Wood of Holly,
Fruit seed from the tree of life,
Cherubim wing feather from the Garden in Eden,
thorn of crown of thorns from Joshua's brow,
dipped in the blood of the lamb.
All they knew now was that someone had claimed the wand. Albus Dumbledore called a meeting with Minerva McGonagall and Mr. Ollivander.