Entry: Saturday, August 1, 2015

The unexpected happened this morning, at about seven.

My first clue was the gentle knock on my bedroom door when I was just finishing getting dressed. Querying the wards indicated that nobody was in my shop- there should have been nobody at that door.

So of course I had my wand ready when I opened it.

Standing at the door… had been a little girl. Just five years old or so, but with a long, black ponytail.

She only looked up at me… then reached back and pulled her ponytail off as if it was a wig, leaving long black hair waving gently down to her waist, no longer contained in a ponytail.

Then she silently handed me the ponytail, bound in a hair tie.

And as soon as I took it, she vanished into thin air.

I spent much of the day inspecting the hair- which is immensely powerful, but doesn’t respond to wand core strength testing.

I have, of course, determined what it is.

It is not Witch or Wizard hair, which makes for terrible cores. It is Guardian Angel hair, willing-given, and will serve as an interface between the magic of the wand and the user of the wand. It will increase the power of any wand whose core it is joined with at least tenfold- and it will also give that wand an extra specialization towards protection and defense. For as long as the Guardian Angel in question is alive, I would also expect the wand to exhibit automatic defense characteristics, possibly even casting on its own to protect its master. That is something that phoenix core wands are already capable of, though that is so rare it’s really just a myth, legend, and rumor.

This hair will render every wand capable of it.

It is also worth note that any wand I bond this hair to will refuse to bond with a witch or wizard that the Angel does not- or would not, if they are already gone- consider worthy of protection. This refusal to bond will go so far as to make the wand utterly unusable to unworthy masters- including to their bonded master, should said master become unworthy after bonding, and to make them utterly loyal to a worthy master, defeating the potential negative side effects from many woods or cores.

I have checked my records. Throughout the two and a half millennia that my family has been in the wand making industry, Guardian Angel Hair has been merged with precisely three wands of Ollivander make. All three were exemplary wands, but the hairs in them had been provided alongside wood and cores, all destined for one master: The Angel’s Host, the child whose trauma spawned them.

But this hair? I have been given over a hundred thousand strands. The Angel obviously wants me to install them in many wands- perhaps they are a new kind of Angel, seeking to protect many, or perhaps their Host is deceased?

Not once in history has an Angel outlived their Host, after all. Angels usually die off- accidental, or more often exorcized- within a week of spawning.

Or maybe something is happening which is far beyond even me.

No instructions were provided for the materials or properties of the wands the hair is to be bonded with.

I will keep this hair in my workshop, and bond it to any wand I feel should have it.

Second Entry: Saturday, August 1, 2015

I thought I was done with discovering earlier, when I wrote that entry. However, as I carried the hair across the shop floor to my workshop, several wands responded to its presence, causing their boxes to stick themselves out of the masses on the shelves. These wands have joined the hairs in my workshop; I will bond the first tomorrow, as it’s past dinner now. My brief investigation indicated that these wands have an extremely high affinity- even attachment- to the hair, which indicates to me that the Angel considers the Wands’ yet-to-be-chosen masters to be not just worthy of protection, but needing of protection.

I have made note of the wand serial numbers, and will consider their buyers very closely, in case I need to notify Director Bones of an issue.

Interestingly, one of these wands was of Holly and Phoenix, eleven inches, nice and supple. But that’s not the interesting part- that is that this wand happens to be the brother of the one I once sold to the boy destined to become the Dark Lord Voldemort.

I should probably pay special attention to the buyer of that wand.

Entry: Tuesday, August 4, 2015

I just finished bonding the Holly and Phoenix, Voldemort-Brother wand to an Angel Hair- and got the sudden, distinct feeling that I was not to inform Professor Dumbledore of the wand’s modification or sale. This was a very strict, angry feeling, passed to me through the wand itself- but I believe it originated from the Angel.

I believe I will be a lot less generous to the Leader of the Light going forwards, if a Guardian Angel has reason to oppose him. They are infinitely courteous and polite to all who do not threaten their charge, after all, and it was an angry feeling, such as Guardians have been known to direct towards their enemies- for the total of the two or three second life spans those enemies usually have after the Guardian sees fit to designate them as such.

There is something going on here which is much larger than me, and definitely unusual, even with regards to the Guardians.

Author's Note

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