Preparation-They-Made (V)

"So, what do you think about the Wand?" Harry asked after Gellert cast a few Spells with his new Wand. It took Violetta only a few hours to finish Gellert's Wand and from the look on Gellert's face, he was quite satisfied with the Wand, but Harry decided to ask him how it felt, after all, Violetta could be seen eagerly waiting for a glowing review.

"This is good… Much better than my original Wand" Gellert answered as he stared at the Wand in his hand.

"Kukuku… I would have been disappointed if you didn't like the Wand. Your Wand isn't my greatest work by any margin, but it is still one of the Wands I am quite proud of" Violetta explained while grinning creepily.

"15" Blackthorn wood with a Phoenix tail feather Core" Gellert breathed out with a grin as he continued to stare at the Wand.

"You know Wandlore?" Violetta asked in surprise as she inclined her head.

"Yes. I won't claim to be an expert, but I do know my basics and I recognized the Phoenix tail feather during the testing" Gellert explained with a shrug. His original Wand was also Blackthorn, but he left that unsaid as felt that piece of information to be unnecessary.

"I see… Well, now, I can't wait to see the great, but terrible things you will achieve with that Wand" Violetta laughed creepily, looking somewhat giddy at the prospect of her Wand being used to create history, no matter how terrible his actions were going to be. Now that her most immediate task was over, she started to collect her things, so that none of her things would go missing.

"Let me help you with that" Harry offered as he started to help her put the wooden blocks she had used previously to determine the perfect Wand wood for Gellert. The ancient woman smiled at him and allowed him to help. Harry simply waved his hand in the air and all the wooden blocks flew back into the bag placed on the ground. After that, Harry started to help her gather the Wand Core samples into the bag.

After determining the materials most suited for Gellert, Violetta didn't bother to return to her shop and simply asked for an empty room where she could work without anyone observing her. Harry had provided her with such a room so that she could work on her craft without anything bothering her. When all of her stuff was gathered in the bag, Harry closed the bag with a snap of his finger before levitating it in the air with a flick of his Wand.

"I won't be taking that bag with me, keep that somewhere in here" Violetta hurriedly said to stop Harry from dropping the bag in her hands. She already had another set of testing materials in her shop, so she didn't need to take this with her, especially when she needed to test all of Grindelwald's followers to match them with their Wands.

"Alright" Harry nodded his head in understanding and decided to ask Morsi to store the bag somewhere safe.

"Good! Now, rejuvenate me" Violetta demanded, looking extremely eager.

"Whoa! Whoa! Calm down. If I rejuvenate right now then people would notice" Harry pointed out, but Violetts shrugged her shoulders dismissively.

"Don't care. I want to be young again" Violetta demanded petulantly, making Harry purse his lips in frustration.

"Okay, I will rejuvenate you, but you will need to use Transfiguration to keep your current appearance" Harry tried to barter, only for Violetta to frantically shake her head with an unhappy look on her face.

"No, not happening. I want to look young and appealing again. There is no way I am willingly going to make myself look old and wrinkly" Violetta huffed and Harry simply stared at her, wondering if he made the right call by asking the insane Wand maker to join the Lost Garden or not.

"Then you will have to die for the rest of the World" Harry said as he stared straight into Violetta's eyes.

"You mean I will have to fake my death?" Violetta asked somewhat giddily instead of looking worried or scared. Harry gave her a reluctant nod and the grin on her face became wide. "That's a great idea!! I always wanted to fake my death" Violetta admitted while nodding her head, making both Gellert and Harry look at each other questioningly.

"What about your family?" Gellert asked curiously.

"Ohhh… They will feel bad, but I am sure that they will eventually get over it" Violetta answered dismissively. "So, when are we faking my death?" Violetta asked eagerly. She couldn't wait to be young again…

"First of all, you need to get all of your affairs in order and after that, you would supposedly have a stroke while working in your shop. Is that going to be okay with you?" Harry asked and after pondering for a bit, Violetta nodded her head in agreement.

"I am old enough to have a stroke and die" Violetta murmured under her breath in agreement. "If there is nothing else for me to do then I will be leaving as I have to get my affairs in order" Violetta called out loudly and after Harry revealed that the rest of her task could wait, Violetta decided to leave. So, Harry quickly opened a portal for her and as soon as she stepped through the portal, Harry closed it behind her.

Harry turned toward Gellert and another portal started to form beside him, but this portal was much smaller than the last one. Harry pulled out a book from the portal and tossed it over to Grindelwald, who caught the book without much difficulty. Gellert looked at the book and gave Harry an annoyed look.

"Do you know how old this book is? You shouldn't be tossing this book at people" Gellert chastised Harry, who simply waved off the man's concerns. Gellert huffed in annoyance when he realized that Harry wasn't paying any attention to him before he finally cracked open the book only to find that the book was related to Black Magic, in other words, Necromancy. Gellert would admit, the term Necromancy wasn't unheard of, but it was a lost branch of Magic.

Gellert wondered how Harry was able to get his hands on something like this… He had looked for anything on Necromancy in his heyday, but he never found anything more than paltry stuff like Imferi creation and stuff like that. "How did you find this?" Gellert asked, looking completely shocked. This book must be at least centuries old and he was sure that Potters are no Necromancers, which meant that this was not his Family book or anything like that.

"I have my sources" Harry said cryptically. Harry had read his records, so he knew that Gellert didn't know much about Necromancy and he was quite interested in the said subject. Unfortunately, he was never able to find anything more than 'How to create Inferi' when it came to Necromancy. Then there was the fact that he had discovered that he can't resurrect his mom through Necromancy as she is not dead in the first place, which made the book kind of useless to him.

"Now, you need to hold up your end of the deal" Harry reminded Gellert, who simply nodded his head in understanding.

"So, how are we doing this? Do you have a Pensive?" Gellert asked, only for Harry to shake his head in denial. "Alright, I will be lowering my Shields, just don't turn me into a Mindless slave" Gellert joked.

"Sure, you don't have to worry about that. Legilimens" Harry said before he entered Gellert's Mind so that he could copy all of his experience…

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