116 Payment. (1/2)

”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.”