Wands are auxiliary tools that help wizards cast spells more accurately and effectively.
Most wizards can only learn wandless magic—casting spells without the aid of a wand—after reaching a certain level of strength.
With the assistance of a wand, the intensity of a spell is mostly calculated based on the wizard's own magic power.
If you output one unit of magic, you release one unit of magic.
However, the [Wand Output Power] attribute that the System had assigned to her Chestnut and Dragon Heartstring wand was equivalent to adding a sustainable growth buff to her wand.
In the future, Kate would only need to increase the Output Power attribute to achieve double, triple, or even greater spell effects with just a single unit of magic output.
Simply put, it was the overpowering experience of using a musket to fire cannonballs.
Was this buff a bit too defiance of nature?
Looking at the [Novice Gift Wand Attribute Points] displayed at the bottom of the screen, Kate hesitated for a moment.
Then, trembling slightly, she added the point to [Wand Output Power].
Immediately, the number behind this attribute jumped from 1 to 1.05.
So a single attribute point only adds 5% output power?
Kate was relieved; her dream of slacking off at Hogwarts in the future hadn't been shattered just yet.
To obtain a new wand without having to display any noteworthy talent was truly something to be happy about.
After thanking Ollivander in a good mood, she paid the money and walked out of the wand shop.
Rand, who had been watching every movement inside from the doorway, held the door open for Kate. "It seems Miss has selected a very fine wand."
"Incorrect," Kate raised a smile, cupping her wand in her hands. "It chose me; I did not choose it."
Rand smiled. "Very well. Once we buy a cauldron, we should go meet Miss's home tutor."
Hearing this, Kate hurriedly asked, "Grandpa, do you already know who my teacher is?"
"Well..." Rand shook his head mysteriously. "I promised Albus I wouldn't tell you for the time being."
She knew it would be like this.
Kate crinkled her nose and turned her head to look out at the street.
Perhaps because she had stayed in the wand shop for a while, wizards were already successively walking past on the street.
Retracing their steps to the cauldron shop they saw at the beginning, the dazzling sunlight cast upon a stack of cauldrons outside the store.
A sign hung above the cauldrons, reading:
Copper, Brass, Pewter, Silver cauldrons. All sizes available. Self-stirring, collapsible.
Kate stared at the pile of cauldrons, curiously distinguishing their materials.
"Miss, it is better to buy a cauldron of the best material," Rand suggested from the side.
The best material would presumably be silver.
But for cooking hotpot, copper should be better, right?
"I want this one!" Kate picked up the largest copper cauldron and looked up at him expectantly.
The old butler naturally yielded to her in everything. "Alright, then Miss, please wait here a moment while I go inside to pay."
Kate nodded obediently, examining the copper cauldron in her hands with great curiosity, still pondering how she would use it to cook a small hotpot.
Suddenly, a crisp girl's voice came from beside her: "The enrollment list requires a standard size 2 pewter cauldron. You took the wrong one."
Kate turned her head, only to discover a little girl slightly taller than herself.
Black eyes, black hair, a standard Asian face, a slender figure, and features that were extremely delicate and cute.
However, she didn't seem to have met this person before, right?
She blinked somewhat blankly. "Are you talking to me?"
"Yes," the girl nodded generously. "Seeing that your age is about the same as mine, you must be a Hogwarts freshman this year, right!"
As a shut-in who stayed at home year-round and didn't interact with outsiders, Kate was still a bit unaccustomed to people actively greeting her.
But seeing that the other party had such a friendly attitude, ignoring her would make the little girl angry, wouldn't it?
She thought about it and extended her hand. "Alright, I am Kate Shafiq."
"I am Cho Chang!"
One sentence nearly made Kate drop the cauldron in her hands onto the ground.
Cho Chang?
The Savior's first love?
Why was she different from the movies?
She wasn't even a student in the same year as Harry Potter; how could Kate bump into a major original character just by casually shopping?
Looking at the hand tightly clasping her own, Kate's entire body went stiff.
Cho Chang had originally been happy to meet a new friend.
She had noticed this exquisitely engaging peer from the moment she entered Diagon Alley.
Silver hair, dark eyes, a slender figure, a face with a bit of baby fat, and a look that seemed dazed and spaced out—making one unable to resist wanting to get close at first glance.
Originally, she didn't know what excuse to use to approach, but then she saw this silver-haired little loli pick up a cauldron different from the one required on the freshman list.
If she didn't seize the opportunity to remind her, the girl would surely be criticized in Potions class, right?
So, before Cho Chang had even bought her own things, she hurriedly rushed over.
She just didn't know why, after she stated her name, this new friend seemed to look even more dazed.
"Are you alright, Kate?" she asked with concern.
The silver-haired little loli before her blinked her eyes blankly and stiffly withdrew her hand from Cho's palm.
"Cough! I'm fine," Kate avoided her gaze and answered nonchalantly.
In her heart, however, she was thinking about how to make this Savior's first love stay away from her.
"I see you haven't bought your textbooks yet. How about we go to the bookstore together!" Cho Chang, completely unaware of her mood, spoke enthusiastically.
This finally gave Kate an opening.
She lifted her head, her lips pressing together slightly. "Sorry, Cho Chang, I am not a Hogwarts student."
"Eh?" This time it was Cho Chang's turn to be confused.
Kate slowly took a step back, putting distance between them. "Mr. Headmaster said I cannot enroll, so I can only hire a home tutor for instruction, so—"
She raised a faint smile. "I do not need textbooks. Thank you for your kindness."
Just as her voice fell, Rand walked out of the cauldron shop and saw his Miss speaking with a strange girl by the street.
"Miss, the money has been paid." He walked over, then looked at Cho Chang. "Is this a new friend Miss has made?"
Kate thought for a moment. "Sort of, but we must hurry back to meet the home teacher."
Rand nodded and said to Cho Chang, "Then we shall take our leave first."
Finally able to flee from the side of an original character, Kate was eager to leave immediately.
"Let us meet again if fate allows, Cho Chang!"
Dropping those words and running away—how thrilling.
Watching the old man and the young girl disappear at the entrance of Diagon Alley, Cho Chang remained rooted to the spot, watching their receding figures with a rather unpleasant feeling in her heart.
Such a friendly and cute little wizard couldn't go to Hogwarts?
That was truly... too regrettable.
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