Snape had put all of the stuff bought by Liam in a small bag, the bag was just small from the outside but bigger from the inside. Liam wanted to buy one such bag but it was too expensive for him to buy. The price of that bag was even more than the amount he got in his scholarship.
It was natural that the he couldn't buy something like that because the scholarship fund is only enough to buy the necessary school items.
Liam now only had the seven gallons given to him by Snape, this was just the right amount of gallons he required to buy a wand. The rest of the gallons were kept by Snape for safe keeping, he didn't want Liam to buy anything other than a wand.
Liam found the shop in the south side of the Diagon alley, it had golden letters written on top of its door. It read 'Makers of fine wands since 382 B.C.' and on top of the window it read 'Olivanders'.
The shop's display consisted of a solitary wands lying on a faded purple cushion in the dusty window. The shop was tiny, empty except for a single, spindly chair in the corner. Thousands of narrow boxes containing wands were piled right up to the ceiling of the tiny shop, and the whole place had a thin layer of dust.
Liam entered through the door to see an old man reading the Daily prophet. Olivander noticed someone enter the door, he kept his newspaper aside and welcomed the guest.
"Hello, it's your first time coming here right."
He didn't want to have small conversation with Olivander. He introduced himself, "Hello, I am Liam Gremory." Olivander seemed like he was trying to remember something, "Gremory, I haven't heard this last name before."
"Of course you haven't sir, I am an orphan, and I don't know who my parents are not even their name. I was given my name at the orphanage." explained Liam.
Olivander stared at Liam for a while, then he went towards a shelf on the right and took out a box. He opened it and handed the wand inside the box to Liam.
Liam took the wand, and gave it a wave but nothing happened. He waved it again but nothing happened.
Olivander had a never seen such a harsh rejection from a wand. He tried giving a wand with dragon heart string as its core.
Liam took that wand and waved it but again nothing happened.
Olivander came to a conclusion that the magic power in Liam is very less. He took out a wand with a baby unicorn hair as its core. Which was meant for weaker wizards, but still nothing happened.
Liam thought it was a common that such thing happened and was looking towards Olivander with eyes filled with innocence and excitement. Olivander on the other hand was troubled, he was thinking about which wand would be perfect for Liam.
After trying out many wands, all of which rejected Liam. Olivander was troubled this was the first time he thought that he wouldn't be able to provide a wand to a wizard. In all of his lifetime there has never been a wizard or witch to whom Olivander was not able to provide a wand to. But now it seemed like today was going to be the first.
Olivander had a gloomy face, 'Why are the wands rejecting this boy' he wondered.
Liam was also out of patience but he thought that these things usually took time.
The whole shop suddenly became silent and dark, the shelves started shacking, Olivander looked towards Liam wondering if he was holding a wand but to his surprise he didn't have a wand in his hand.
'Whats happening, I have never seen such a thing, why are all the wands in the shop becoming anxious.' Thought Olivander.
Liam stood in his place also wondering what was happening.
A loud thudding noise could be heard from the far back of the shop. Olivander quickly ran towards the back, he saw a box which placed on a shelf was bouncing as if something inside of the box was trying to come out. Olivander held the box down and opened it.
The shelves which were shacking calmed down and the box also stopped bouncing just as he opened the box. Inside the box a wand was placed half wrapped in a black cloth which seemed as it was a very high in quality and very old.
The wand was blackish brown in color, the base of the wand had a small black bead, the handle also had a beady grip just as that of the elder wand. The rest of the wand had plane black body.
Olivander didn't attempt to hold the wand in his hand as it gave of the feeling that if he held the wand, the wand will devour him. The years of experience he had in his life, he had never seen such a situation.
He took the box towards the front of the shop where Liam was standing patiently waiting for Olivander to come back.
He placed the box in front of Liam, Liam thinking that he was supposed to try this wand as well. He held the wand in his hand. The wand showed no opposition to Liam which it had shown to Olivander.
Just as he held the wand his hand he got a small cut through which the blood poured out. Liam shouted in pain, "Ah!!!" The blood which came out was absorbed by the wand. Just after the blood got absorbed the cut healed itself and the wand which was black now had red strips on it.
Olivander who had witnessed all this was stunned, "Mr. Gremory just who are you?"
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The time at which Liam had picked up the wand, the whole sky turned reddish in color. As it was noon many wizards noticed the changes. The changes in the sky were also noticed by the muggles.
The next day both the daily prophet of the wizarding world as well as the newspaper of the muggle world would cover this strange phenomenon.
In Hogwarts, Headmaster's office. Dumbledore was feeding fawkes, All of a sudden fawkes started acting strange, and flew outside the office. Dumbledore who was unsure of the reason why fox was acting strange followed behind him.
He reached near the balcony to see the sky had turned reddish in color. He knew it was the same as the day he left harry at the Dursley's house. He knew exactly what the reason behind the changes was.
But Liam unaware of the changes was inside the Olivander's shop still holding the wand in his hand.
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Liam was confused by the question asked by Olivander, this was the first time he was critically thinking who he was. Liam had a very strange expression on his face.
Olivander noticed that he had asked a very unappropriate question to an orphan, "Sorry about that I didn't mean to offend you."
He had an apologetic expression, "The wand which you are holding is my family's heirloom. It has been passed down in my family from generations. My father told me that this very wand was the thing which made the first Olivander start learning the wand lore and since then we continued studying wands.
The strangest thing is that this wand didn't seem to channel magic, even to a wizard this wand would seem like a piece of wood. But what happened today made me realize that the wand hadn't found a master because of that reason it was just sleeping." He looked towards Liam with awe, "Mr. Gremory, You are the one who woke up this wand from its centuries of sleep".
Liam was shocked to know the history about this wand, "Mr. Olivander, I don't think it is appropriate for me to buy this wand. It's your family's heirloom".
"You are kind Mr. Gremory", Olivander smiled "Truth to be told I don't want to give this wand up as well, the spectacle that I witnessed today has lit up my passion for wands. But the wand has chosen you Mr. Gremory, The wand chooses the wizard it is not the wizard who chose the wand. And this wand has already made a blood connection to you. Now it is forever connected to you.
Even if I wanted to not give this wand away this wand will not comply. It is better to just give it to you as it now has a destiny with you."
Liam had nothing he could say to Olivander now. He paid the seven Galleons for the wand and made his way towards Leaky cauldron.
Olivander waved his hand and said his goodbye to Liam before he went out, "Until we meet again Mr. Gremory"
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