p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"strongChapter 7: Making Magic/strong/p
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p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"It was a long and slow process, but so worth it. He'd waited so long for this moment that a few days made little difference; he'd have forever before long./p
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p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Now what he needed was a strong army and the force to lead. He had an army and he had power; but every one of them had had their wand snapped in half when they were sent to Nurmengard./p
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p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"This didn't matter however as Grindelwald had identified a whole new level of wand construction through his years in Nurmengard, just through his own thinking and what he'd heard. He'd gone to lengths no one else dared to because of silly nature and life laws. Stupid humans. Didn't they realise that once you were immortal, a master of death and magic, that you wrote the rules?!/p
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p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"These wands he was carving for himself and his army were made from Elephant Ivory, with cores ranging from three different materials; Basilisk Fang, Thestral Heart-string and Kappa hair./p
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p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"It was a standard combination, earthen non-magic material from a once living source, with a magical core. Wizards were too proud to use animals for their actual wand material and stuck to trees, but the real power came when the core material had known life in a much more real sense./p
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p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"As for the cores, the more powerful the creature the more power the wand would hold. Wandmakers foolishly stuck with life-giving creatures like Phoenix feathers and peaceful Dragon Heart-string. The greatest power however lay in the taking of life, so these cores were much more powerful; easy to come by too. Basilisks could be easily hatched by placing a chicken egg beneath a toad. Thestrals roamed wild in most forests, people just didn't know as if they hadn't seen death they were none the wiser as to their presence. As for Kappas, any water-hole where there had been more than one death almost definitely contained a Kappa; again easy to find./p
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p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"That would be the next stage after he hand finished carving these wands from the Elephant tusks; and he was nearly done. He was producing a variety of lengths and thicknesses of wand, and was certain that once a magical core had been added to each, there would be a suitable powerful wand for almost every member of his army./p
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p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Grindelwald knew that he, the most powerful wizard alive, carving these wands using the most powerful materials; meant there really was only going to be one wand on earth more powerful. The wand carved by Death himself./p
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p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"His old wand./p
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p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"The Elder Wand./p
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p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"It was a long and slow process, but so worth it. He'd waited so long for this moment that a few days made little difference; he'd have forever before long./p
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p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Now what he needed was a strong army and the force to lead. He had an army and he had power; but every one of them had had their wand snapped in half when they were sent to Nurmengard./p
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p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"This didn't matter however as Grindelwald had identified a whole new level of wand construction through his years in Nurmengard, just through his own thinking and what he'd heard. He'd gone to lengths no one else dared to because of silly nature and life laws. Stupid humans. Didn't they realise that once you were immortal, a master of death and magic, that you wrote the rules?!/p
p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"These wands he was carving for himself and his army were made from Elephant Ivory, with cores ranging from three different materials; Basilisk Fang, Thestral Heart-string and Kappa hair./p
p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"It was a standard combination, earthen non-magic material from a once living source, with a magical core. Wizards were too proud to use animals for their actual wand material and stuck to trees, but the real power came when the core material had known life in a much more real sense./p
p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"As for the cores, the more powerful the creature the more power the wand would hold. Wandmakers foolishly stuck with life-giving creatures like Phoenix feathers and peaceful Dragon Heart-string. The greatest power however lay in the taking of life, so these cores were much more powerful; easy to come by too. Basilisks could be easily hatched by placing a chicken egg beneath a toad. Thestrals roamed wild in most forests, people just didn't know as if they hadn't seen death they were none the wiser as to their presence. As for Kappas, any water-hole where there had been more than one death almost definitely contained a Kappa; again easy to find./p
p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"That would be the next stage after he hand finished carving these wands from the Elephant tusks; and he was nearly done. He was producing a variety of lengths and thicknesses of wand, and was certain that once a magical core had been added to each, there would be a suitable powerful wand for almost every member of his army./p
p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Grindelwald knew that he, the most powerful wizard alive, carving these wands using the most powerful materials; meant there really was only going to be one wand on earth more powerful. The wand carved by Death himself./p
p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"His old wand./p
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p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"The Elder Wand./p