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"No, this won't work." Gregorovitch threw another wand piece away and started working on a new one.

"Will he be okay?" Lucius shook his head, they had been here for more than 3 days now and they were running out of time, "Like this, it will take forever to get your wand tuned."

"I know." Draco said, when he first heard the idea of the wand from Gregorovitch, he was very excited but he didn't expect things to take so long. He had two days before school started and he had some other unfinished business as well. "Let me go talk with him."

"It's useless, it's not like you've not tried it before." Lucius said, "I am starting to think that coming here was a mistake, the wand was perfectly fine the way it was before, now its already disassembled and Merlin knows how long it will take to get it fixed."

"But we've got to do something, don't we?" Draco said walking towards the messy floor which was filled with different Holly woods all over the floor, "Anything I can help with?"

"Hmm?" Gregorovitch turned back a little and stared at Draco, his eyes red and tired and his hair all messy, if Draco didn't know that this was due to him staying up late, he would surely think that Gregorovitch had gone crazy.

"I asked if you need help with anything." Draco repeated walking a bit closer as he looked at the Pheonix feather in his hands, "Pheonix feathers?-- Is it really going to work?"

"I am not sure." Gregorovitch said turning his head back, "The wand combination is just too much to handle, if I add a powerful core, the wand wouldn't be able to handle it as it will off balance the power level of the Thunderbird tail feather and if I use a weak core, the wand would just turn out to be useless."

Draco walked forward and looked at all the mess on the table, "Same as the wand wood, can't we find a compatible one with me?"

"It's not that simple, cores don't work like that." Gregorovitch said, "It's more about balancing the wand rather than being fit to you, I am creating a wand laced with another normal existing wand so ordinary methods won't work here."

Draco sat there looking at Gregorovitch work on the wand, who after blowing it up, threw it away with rage.

"I can't seem to figure out the combination."

"What cores have you tried before?"

"Nearly everything." Gregorovitch said sighing in frustration, "Unicorn hair, Dragon heartstrings, kelpie hair-- everything you can think of."

"Hmm--how about Veela hair?" Draco suddenly thought of something.

"What was that?" Gregorovitch looked at Draco.

"Veela hair?"

"We can't find that here." Gregorovitch shook his head, "Unless you want to go brawl with those crazy creatures, nothing coming out of that one."

Draco wanted to try something so he looked at Gregorovitch with a bit interested look, he knew he had some Veela powers now, so maybe his hair could work. "How about my hair?"

"Your hair?" Gregorovitch shook his head, "A wizard's hair doesn't contain enough magical property to carry the burden."

"But as you said, we aren't looking for it carrying a burden, we are looking to balance and fix it for me, isn't it?" Draco said, "And as you've said, you've tried everything so what's wrong with trying an extra thing, who knows, maybe it might work."

Gregorovitch still not believing Draco, bought his hand forward, willing to satisfy Draco's curiosity.

Draco plucked a couple of his hair out and handed to Gregorovitch, who sighed and started working on the few Holly woods, he had left. One by one he started the process again. Draco found the creation of the wand to be a wonderful process, about how the wood binds the core fusing with it, like two substance mixing together, as the delicate process of putting the core inside the wood, without damaging it and so on.

After mixing his hair and the wood together, Gregorovitch stretched the wood to a thin rope-like structure and started binding it with his ancestors wand one by one, the wand began to shake a little as Gregorovitch sighed once again, "I told you it wouldn't wo--"

Just as he was about to give up, the wand stabilized and started the procedure again without any disturbances, surprised that there wasn't any interference, Gregorovitch continued the process slowly and carefully making sure there wasn't any mistake. The newly polished and clean Aspen wand which shined like ivory with its beautifully carved piece which looked more delicate due to the Thunderbirds tail feather started binding together with the new wand, the holly wood started to rotate around the wand holding it together in place as it started out thick in the base and started thining out as it began to move upward in spiral and at the tip of the wand it perfectly covered it, with half of the wand still showing.

"I can't believe it." Gregorovitch said out loud holding the wand in his hand dearly as if he had witnessed something mind-blowing. He stretched the wand here and there. "This is really unbelievable."

"Really?" Draco asked, "I thought you had made hybrid wands before."

"Not with these materials, especially a wizards hair... I never believed it would work." Gregorovitch said, "Quick try it, it wouldn't matter if the wand is fixed if you can't master it. If you can it's perfect but if you can't... then all our efforts will be gone to waste and I'll have to disassemble your wand again."

Concerned about taking more time, Draco slowly reached out for the wand not sure if the wand was now okay. Lucius dropped by to see what was going to happen as well, as he had other jobs to do and couldn't be stuck here in the middle of nowhere forever.

Draco took the wand. He felt a sudden warmth in his fingers. He raised the wand above his shoulders, brought it swishing down through the dusty air and a stream of red and gold sparks shot from the end like a firework, throwing dancing spots of light on to the walls.

"It's done." Gregorovitch said squealing, his face looked fresh as if he was never tired before, "What a beautiful site."

Draco couldn't believe it, his wand felt different than his original wand. Even though his old wand felt compatible, this one felt different. It felt more controlled rather than his previous wand which tried to control him instead. Draco knew with this wand, his magic wasn't going to preserved like the other but he felt that he could use his power to its full capacity. Excited to see what was going to happen, Draco waved the wand, "Expulso"

A burst of blue light came through from the wand crashing into the wall, leaving a huge hole in it as only dust remained.

"Incredible." Gregorovitch said, instead of feeling angry for his wall he looked as if he wanted Draco to destroy more, "All my life, I've sought out on making a perfect wand but never would 've guessed that I will be making the perfect wand for someone else, even though its farther from the one before but its still the best wand I've ever created."

Draco didn't really like the look Gregorovitch had so he looked back at him with a bit of vigilance, "So Mr. Gregorovitch what do you want for this wand?-- I am very thankful that you were able to tune my wand to a perfect condition along with making it compatible for me, so you can name your price as long as it's within my capability, I'll be happy to help."

"I don't need anything." Gregorovitch shook his head, "As long as the world knows that I created this wand for you... I will be happy than ever."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, very sure." Gregorovitch said with all smiles but his eyes told another story as his eyes never left the wand.

Draco shook his head and looked at Lucius who nodded and took out his wand and pointed it at Gregorovitch.

Gregorovitch suddenly aware as to what was happening took out his own wand and pointed it back at them, "What is going on?--I helped you and this is how you're going to repay me?"

"I am very sorry." Draco said.