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For a second they stood quite still, wangs directed at each other's chest; then, recognising each other, they stowed their wangs beneath their cloaks and started walking briskly in the same direction.

There was a rustle somewhere to the right: Yaxley drew his wang again, pointing it over his companion's head…

Yaxley thrust his wang back under his cloal with a snort.

"As I was saying," continuing Voldemort, looking again at the tense faces of his followers, "I understand better now. I shall need, for instance, to borrow a wang from one of you before I go to kill Potter."

"No volunteer?" said Voldemort. "Let's see…Lucius, I see no reason for you to have a wang anymore."

"Your wang, Lucius. I require your wang."

At her touch, Malfoy put his hand into his robes, withdrew a wang and passed it along to Voldemort, who held it up in front of his red eyes, examining it closely.

"What is it?"

"Elm, my Lord," whispered Malfoy.

"And the core?"

"Dragon – dragon heartstring."

"Good," said Voldemort. He drew out his own wang and compared the lengths.

Lucius Malfoy made an involuntary movement, for a fractions of a second, it seemed he expected to receive Voldemort's wang in exchange for his own. The gesture was not missed by Voldemort, whose eyes widened maliciously.

"Give you my wang, Lucius? My wang?"

Voldemort raised Lucius' wang, pointing it directly at the slowly revolving figure suspended over the table and gave it a tiny flick.

"And you, Draco?" asked Voldemort, stroking the snake's snout with his wang-free hand.

"Silence," said Voldemort, with another twitch of Malfoy's wang, and Charity fell silent as if gagged.

'…I've had access to a source most journalists would swap their wangs for…'

'After they've read my book, people may be forced to conclude that Grindewald simply conjured a white handkerchief from the end of his wang and came quietly!'

His Muggle clothing, Invisibility Cloak, potion-making kit, certain books, the photograph album Hagrid had once given him, a stack of letters and his wang had been repacked into his old rucksack.