Across the Worlds
c13
Chapter 13
Eiri was fiddling with his wand, sitting in the parlor with his Three, while Blaise Zabini helped to keep his little ‘cousin’ occupied playing outside.
He knew his wand was more than Ollivander had said, Ollivander had claimed that it was heartstring of an imperial dragon… and he could only be grateful that Ollivanders’ ancestor had mislabeled that core, it was in reality the heartstring of THE Emperor of Dragons. He knew what this would mean, Ollivander would report what the wands choice would mean about his personality to Dumbledore. To receive an imperial dragons string, it would mean that he was intelligent, loyal, hard working and a protector/soldier type Wizard. It would also mean that he was powerful.
However while in a way all of these traits were accurate, the difference in what the core really was and what Ollivander thought it was would make a large difference. To receive The Emperors string multiplied what his power was by several thousand times. It would also explain that he was by nature both logical and wild, swift to understand the shadow in the shadows, but also swift in making actions. But most importantly, imperial dragons were Generals, strong, loyal, effective… and followers. However being of the Emperor, he was a natural leader.
Eiri loved the expressions upon the faces of his three when he explained the whole issue to them. Aurelia had given into giggles, Perry had given a solemn nod and Lucius had simply nodded with a pout on his face. After he had explained his wand to them he had given the reason for his explanations.
“You see, Ollivander has pledged his loyalty to Dumbledore, as you know that means that he has broken the wand-makers oath of neutrality. As such when we go to Japan next week, I would like for you three to take the littles to the wand-makers there, so that such vital information is not passed to the fluttering old lemon drop.”
Evan had made an amused moue at the name, but had agreed that that was probably the best idea. Aurelia had been swift in her agreement, anything that offered a protection to her son was to be taken advantage of. Lucius hadn’t bothered to say anything, giving simply a curt nod.
A moment later he explained his silence as he expounded upon his thought. “I believe that we should all, get new wands while we are there, after all, a backup wand is a good idea, and we could all use an advantage to even the playing field with that particularly meddlesome old man gaining that form of knowledge about us all.”
All three had agreed. After another two hours of Lucius replaying the trip to Diagon Alley, Evans curiosity finally got the better of him and he had to ask. “What exactly did you go to all of their back rooms for anyway?” Looking around he saw that he had all of their undivided attention and so answered them.
“I was commissioning several things for this trip… a custom made trunk, that will, upon completion carry the bulk of my fortune, my library and a study, as well as a ritual room and potions area, I was going to add a sparring room but decided that doing it outside would give me better chances in survival and more realistic terrain to train in. It will have a creation room for some of my projects, I am sorry to tell you that this trunk will be off limits for all of you. I also commissioned several bookstores to gather me some rare books that I will need. A jeweler to find me quality gems and metals for me to work with, and a pet shop to find me certain creatures .”
Aurelia, Lucius, and Evan all stared at him for a moment, then just shrugged it off. They spent the rest of the afternoon discussing their plans for Japan. It was after lunch before the adults realized that Eiri had not told them who would be going with him through the well. They were not surprised though that he pointed to Lucius and Aurelia.
Evan was a little sad that he would not be able to go; but he was reminded that he was in charge of keeping the children busy until such time as they returned, which could from this side of the well be anywhere from an hour to several days, on the other side of the well time would be traveling much faster so it could be years there.