Harry nodded and went outside. He concentrated and soon Hedwig flew down to him and landed on his arm. Her plumage had got even more silver now than it had been two days ago. Harry stroked her feathers.
"I need your help Hedwig. Mr Ollivander says that to find a wand for me, I'd need one of your feathers to balance out the only wand that responded somewhat to me. Would you mind donating one of your feathers for my wand, Hedwig?" Harry asked.
Hedwig hooted, shook herself and a single silver feather fell from her plumage.
"Thank you very much, Hedwig." Harry said and offered her one of the owl treats he always carried around with him in case he got mail. She happily accepted the treat.
Harry took the feather.
"Do you want to see how the wand will be made or would you prefer to fly around outside?" Harry asked her.
The hoot he got told him that she wanted to stay with him. Harry let her take place on his shoulder and went back inside. Mr Ollivander's eyes went wide seeing the owl.
"Really an incredible specimen your familiar. I've only ever seen a moon owl once in my life and that was at night when she flew over my head when I was out in a forest to collect wood for a wand from a tree that needs to be harvested under the full moon. Let's see if we can get this wand balanced out for you now." He said, taking the silver feather reverently.
He took both the wand and the feather and placed them on a workbench in the back of the shop. Harry could watch, but Hagrid was too big to get there. Ollivander swished his wand over the wand on the workbench in a complicated matter and it enlarged. At the handle an opening appeared and Ollivander carefully took out a red and gold feather. Harry recognized the feeling he got from the feather.
"Is that feather by any chance from Fawkes, the phoenix familiar of Professor Dumbledore?" He asked Ollivander.
"Indeed it is. You've met the headmaster's familiar then?" Ollivander asked.
"Yes, when I was at St. Mungo's and the healers found out something troubling with a splint that had been stuck in my scar for ten years since the attack on my parents' home, he healed the wound on my scar with his tears." Harry confirmed.
"Interesting, very interesting." Ollivander commented. "A lesser bond to a phoenix and a strong bond to a moon owl. We indeed can expect great things from you Mr Potter. Great things indeed." He said, returning to his work. He jabbed each feather with his wand and dripped a clear substance on both feathers, making them glow shortly.
"Tears of happiness of a fairy, a good binder for the feathers." He said absentmindedly.
Then he swished his wand again and the two feathers intertwined. He took the still enlarged wooden part of the wand and levitated the feathers inside. Then he moved his wand in a circle and the wand shrank back to its original size and the opening was no more.
"Try it now, Mr Potter." Ollivander said.
Harry waved the wand and had a fantastic feeling flowing threw him. Like a cooling breeze on a warm summer day. From the tip of his wand silver and blue sparks appeared, slowly falling down.
"Yes, yes that did the trick. A remarkable wand, Mr Potter. I was curious who would buy that specific wand, you see, as it was before; it was the brother to the wand that gave you that scar, yes a powerful wand, but now, this wand is absolutely unique. To require a wand with more than one core component means you'll become a very powerful wizard." Ollivander said.
Harry was glad that Hagrid didn't hear about the connection his wand had with Voldemort. It wouldn't do him any favours to have such a connection. If people knew they could get stupid ideas. They went back to the front and Harry happily told Hagrid that he now had his wand. He paid Ollivander eleven galleons for the wand and then left the shop with Hagrid.
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At Hogwarts Albus Dumbledore sat in his office behind his desk reading a letter Ollivander the wandmaker had written him. The second wand had been sold to Harry Potter, but instead of simply choosing the boy, the wand had needed to be adjusted with the feather of Harry's familiar, a moon owl. This was indeed very fascinating. He had never before heard of a wand having to be adjusted. And for Harry to have won the allegiance of a moon owl was unheard of in a wizard of his age. Those owls were some of the most mysterious magical creatures that were categorized as light. Due to their rareness there weren't many documents handed down in time about their kind. The only thing that was known was that they needed to find a witch or wizard to create a familiar bond with before they reached a certain age. Nobody knew though how old that was.
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