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Chapter 65 - The Wonders of the Vault
Dimension: 563 - Earth
Date: 8th September 2001 AD
Country: Britain - England
Location: Hogwarts Express
Time: Morning
A few days later on the way to London.
Professors Dumbledore, Delacour, Fontaine, Tonks, Summers, Lupin and Berio were in a single carriage attached to the Hogwarts Express along with Ginny, the Gryffindor trio, most of the Muggle Defence class and much to Ron's displeasure; Draco.
The main reason for the trip was going to be to allow Adam to visit his vault but then Harry had received letters to attend the will reading of Sirius Black, after Harry had sent his confirmation back to Gringotts, Dumbledore, Remus, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Draco and Tonks all received attendance requests for the will reading. On top of that some of the MD students requested to accompany them so they could purchase more appropriate attire for sparring, the idea spread until almost the whole class was going.
They were all lounging quite comfortably, Hermione and Ginny occupying the window seats starring out into the countryside, Ron was sending Draco (who was opposite him) death glares which Draco was ignoring, next to him was Adam and nearest the door Harry, Fleur, Colette, Tonks and Buffy. Tonks had magically enlarged the compartment to accommodate them all.
The only real movement in the room was the silver disk rotating between Adams fingers.
"If you don't mind me asking?" said Ginny breaking the silence "What exactly are you getting out of your vault? Other than the wand for Prof....for Buffy?"
Adam smiled "You will find out soon enough, it's been a while since I've been to my vault, I had better check if I still have my key." he said fishing through his cloak pockets
"You didn't check?" Draco asked in disbelief.
"Ah....there it is." he said withdrawing a long box (about the size of a case for a pair of glasses) from his cloak.
"How could you not know if you were carrying something that size in your cloak?" Draco asked sceptically.
"This cloak isn't just a cloak, it dimension shifts," he explained, opening up his cloak, everyone leaned closer to get a better look ,the inside was covered with pockets, tags to hang things from, weapons sheaves sown into the fabric for throwing knifes and daggers, you name it and this cloak had it. The strange thing was that all the sheaves and holders appeared empty and flat.
"Blimey." Ron exclaimed "That must weigh a lot when it is full."
"It is full." Replied Adam, withdrawing a curved and highly decorated knife from a sheaf that had been empty until he had clasped his hand round the handle (or where the handle would have been).
"Nice." said Tonks "I heard about a DOM project to do something like that."
Adam replaced the knife in the sheave, as soon as his hand released the handle, it vanished and the pocket flattened
"Why do you have such a large case for such a small key?" asked Harry.
Adam opened the case and held it out for all to see, inside was an image of a large key on a piece of silk padding, before their eyes the key rose out of the silk and appeared as a real object laying on top of the silk, the teeth of the key were highly elaborate and the key itself was highly decorated, the vault must be very old, the key looked like it was from the Middle Ages.
"That is one big key, why do you not have a normal sized one?" Ron asked.
"Like I said it has been a while since I've been there, these keys were once the standard size up until the seventeenth century, this sort of key is only used for top security vaults now, but as I have that type of vault I did not need to change."
The others interest was peaked but they got the feeling that Adam wasn't going to tell them anything else....yet.
They spent the rest of the trip explaining to Buffy the wonders of Diagon Alley and describing what she had not seen when she had been purchasing her work clothes.
They finally arrived in London and made their way to the alley.
After entering the alley Dumbledore gave the students a return time and the group dispersed to go about their business, they were not overly worried about safety as Dumbledore had requested that Madam Bones post Auror's throughout the alley during their visit.
Upon entering Gringotts Buffy caught her first sight of Goblins, she thought they were some of the strangest creatures she had ever seen, not because of their large noses and ears but because of their size, they looked like big House Elves except for the almost permanent scowls.
Adam walked straight to the far end of the room and approached the Head Goblin.
"I wish to make a withdrawal."
"Vault type?" the goblin asked without looking up from his work.
"High Security."
The Goblin looked up, obviously more interested in this uncommon type of withdrawal.
"Vault Number?" the Goblin asked.
"Thirteen."
That got everyone's attention.
"That vault hasn't been opened in over two hundred years," The goblin asked shocked and half expecting it to be a joke "Do you have the key?"
Adam withdrew the key and handed it to the Goblin, who studied it with suspicion and wonder, the Goblin replaced the key in the case and then proceeded to study that in detail, observing the exact way that the key removed itself from the silk, he eventually handed the case back to Adam.
"That seems to be in order, please excuse me I while I obtain transportation." Replied the Goblin as he rushed of to fetch a large cart, the group from Hogwarts were intrigued, the Head Goblin never took people to their vaults, not even for Dumbledore, he usually just checked the key and then designated the job to a Clerk, what surprised most of the party further was that the Goblin had said please which Goblins never do unless they have made a mistake as regards to someone's money....which they also do not do.
They were led down to a cart and proceeded along the tracks for a good ten minutes to reach the vault, the others were watching fascinated, the vaults down here had huge doors and large amounts of key holes on each one, as they proceeded through the tunnels they heard low rumblings in the distance and wondered whether the rumours about dragons guarding the lower vaults were true. Reaching the end of the line the cart rolled to a stop, directly in front of the cart was a massive pair of doors, it was bigger than the entrance to Hogwarts.
"Vault number thirteen." the Head Goblin announced climbing out of the cart, the others following behind him.
As Adam approached the door, the Head Goblin pointed to a particular key hole as this door, like the others they had seen earlier it was peppered with them, Adam looked at the keyhole then seemed to be tracing patterns on the door with his eyes, he appeared to be following a series of instructions to reach the correct keyhole, finally having found it Adam placed the key in the lock and slowly turned, locks crunched and creaked with old age. The door didn't open.
The others exchanged glances but the goblin and Adam appeared to be following further instructions, the Goblin placed his finger inside a keyhole and Adam did the same to another, there was a sound of magical barriers being lowered, the Goblin then withdrew two keys from his robe and handed them both to Adam, Adam studied both keys, appeared to make a decision, then handed one back, they then started counting keyholes again and at the same time placed the keys in another pair of holes, there was another sound of locks moving and a small hatch opened in the door, inside was the strangest key any of the assembled group had ever seen, it looked like two keys meshed together, it had a normal handle and set of teeth but inside the first was another separate free moving key that had a handle and a set of teeth extending out the front and back of the first, the Goblin and Adam both took a hold of the key and placed it in yet another lock turning each part of the key consecutively in opposite directions, puffs of dust shot from the hinges and the door slowly swung open.
"Oh Merlin," Ron exclaimed, the others had been stunned into silence. The vault was as big as any of the Hogwarts classrooms; it was pilled to the sealing with gold and riches of every kind with only a thin isle down the middle to move down, unlike the usual vaults the riches were not stacks of gold coins but objects made of gold ranging from bowls and plates to sceptres and cups.
Adam walked to the back of the room and started studying the back wall.
"What are you looking for?" Hermione asked as the others followed him in, one of the others would have probably asked but they were all to busy starring at the rest of the contents of the vault.
Finding what he was looking for, Adam removing a gold ring (that no one had seen him wearing) from his right hand, it seemed to have a symbol on it but Hermione could not make it out.
He pressed it into a slight depression on the wall and twisted it clockwise half a turn, then rotated it back a full turn, removing it from the depression, the wall began to creak and slowly lowered into the ground, the room on the other side was half as big again, but this time seemed to be filled with more personal items, jewellery (not men's), documents, many elaborate weapons were fixed to the wall, piles of various sizes highly decorative wooden boxes, some were also arranged on tables obviously containing more valuable items, they all seemed to be arranged in some form of order though none of them could decipher it.
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Ginny was overcome with what she saw, it was gob smacking, one table seemed to draw her attention even more than the piles of gold objects in the previous room, on it was a series of crystals all perfectly diamond shaped (though Hermione would have said the Muggle term was called a rhombus) they were perfectly clear, about five centimetres tall, three centimetres in diameter and appeared to glow faintly. They radiated power.
She moved to pick one up, but someone grabbed her wrist before she made contact with the nearest crystal.
"Trust me; you do not want to touch those." Warned Adam, releasing her wrist and walking back to the small circular table he had been looking at before.
Ginny felt really embarrassed, trying to be ignored she moved over to another raised platform, she examined what lay upon in.
Only one box rested on the table, opening the lid so that it leaned back on its hinges Ginny was able to see its contents.
There were various pieces of jewellery in the box but the one piece that drew her eye rested inside a small material grip in the centre, a beautiful diamond ring. It was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen, it must be worth a fortune, almost on autopilot she picked it up and slid it onto the third finger of her left hand, it fitted perfectly.
For some reason she turned and her eyes met Draco's, she immediately turned away only to find everyone else was staring at her, Ron's look very clearly said 'Put it back'.
Adam's face was sad for an instant but he quickly covered up his expression, the ring must be very important to him.
"I'm.....I'm sorry," she said remove it from her finger, dropping it in her haste "Oh God I am so sorry, I....I didn't mean to." she said beginning to panic.
Adam walked over, all eyes followed him as he moved, Ginny stood frozen to the spot as he slowly picked up the ring.
He stared at the ring between his fingers, Ginny was almost terrified to move, what had she done, how could she have been so careless, she shouldn't have been looking through someone else's private things.
Adam then did something very unexpected.
He reached out, took her shaking hand and placed the ring on her palm.
"Keep it, I have no use for it." he said kindly before returning to the table he had been examining.
Ginny was overcome, no one had ever given her something so beautiful or so expensive, she would have said that she couldn't accept it but the look in Adam's eyes before he moved off clearly said it was pointless to argue.
Harry, Hermione, Ron, Buffy, Fleur, Colette and Tonks all moved to examine the ring as Ginny, still in shock returned the ring to her finger; it really was one of the most beautiful thing she had ever seen.
Hermione and Ron exchanged a look before quickly turned away when they realised what they were doing to the amusement of Harry and the others.
Dumbledore, unbeknown to the others saw the slight pain on Adam's face as he turned away, that ring was important to him, it really hurt him to give it away, he just hopped Miss Weasley would take care of it, he could tell Adam would be deeply wounded if she lost it.
Adam tapped an area of a circular table and an opening appeared in the side, out of which slid a wand.
"Buffy." he called as she looked up from the ring and moved towards him.
"Your wand." he said removing it and holding it out for her "Willow, fourteen inches, essence of demon." she turned to him shocked at this last statement "It should interact well with you Slayer powers."
Buffy gave the wand a nervous look before carefully picking it off of Adam's palm, as soon as she did the room was an explosion of light and colour, it swirled, twisted and finally dissipated.
"That wand was DEFINITELY meant for you." Hermione contributed.
"Try it," Harry suggested "Wingardium Leviosa." he pronounced, replicating Hermione's tone perfectly, earning a snort from Ron before both received death glares from Hermione.
Buffy turned towards the box Ginny had got the ring from and took a deep breath; she had already cast several spells with Tonks wand so she was not totally new to this.
"Wingardium Leviosa." she pronounced rather forcefully.
The box flew upwards and collided with the sealing exploded along with all its contents.
Adam visibly flinched when the box blew up, for anyone looking closely (in this case only Hermione) they could see that he was shaking slightly.
"I'm....Adam, I'm sorry....I....I didn't mean." Buffy stuttered, fingering her new wand like it could explode at any moment.
Adam turned to her and said slowly.
"Not quite so powerful next time."
Hermione withdrew her wand.
"Reparo." the fragments on the floor twitched before settling back to the floor "Reparo!"
"Thank you for trying, but that will not work." Adam commented.
Hermione felt sorry for him, had he not given that ring to Ginny it would have gone up as well.
Buffy looked down at her wand, handling it a bit less cautiously as she turned it over in her hands. The wood was highly decorated, though Buffy didn't think it was for decorative purposes, Dumbledore, Hermione and Colette all moved to examine the wand.
"Fascinating," Dumbledore commented "I presume these runes are to give the wand additional power?"
He was obviously trying to change the subject and thankfully Adam let him.
"Yes, they also help to contain the power at its core and channel it in manageable amounts, you just need to learn how to channel it." he said to Buffy "That is a powerful wand." he turned and walked towards an alter at the back of the room.
"Edra."
The top of the alter slid open and a staff extended out of the hole before floating to Adam's side.
The staff was white, tapering towards the base. At the top it coiled out into a delicate pattern, it then flowed back together to meet at the top, the delicate pattern was gripped around a large clear crystal, it was bigger than those which Ginny had seen earlier which were about five centimetres tall, this was at least fifteen in height, the crystal was visible on six sides between the delicate patterned wood which gripped it.
Adam extended his hand and grasped the staff; it let of a blinding light that lit up the entire room, forcing the others to look away or risk permanent eye damage.
After a minute the light faded until it was safe to see again, when the others finally managed to look they saw Adam looking better than he had in days.
"Wow." Hermione managed to say.
"You can say that again." agreed Colette.
"I want one." Exclaimed Ron.
AUTHORS NOTE: Is anyone interested in betaing this story for me?
Dimension: 563 - Earth
Date: 8th September 2001 AD
Country: Britain - England
Location: Hogwarts Express
Time: Morning
A few days later on the way to London.
Professors Dumbledore, Delacour, Fontaine, Tonks, Summers, Lupin and Berio were in a single carriage attached to the Hogwarts Express along with Ginny, the Gryffindor trio, most of the Muggle Defence class and much to Ron's displeasure; Draco.
The main reason for the trip was going to be to allow Adam to visit his vault but then Harry had received letters to attend the will reading of Sirius Black, after Harry had sent his confirmation back to Gringotts, Dumbledore, Remus, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Draco and Tonks all received attendance requests for the will reading. On top of that some of the MD students requested to accompany them so they could purchase more appropriate attire for sparring, the idea spread until almost the whole class was going.
They were all lounging quite comfortably, Hermione and Ginny occupying the window seats starring out into the countryside, Ron was sending Draco (who was opposite him) death glares which Draco was ignoring, next to him was Adam and nearest the door Harry, Fleur, Colette, Tonks and Buffy. Tonks had magically enlarged the compartment to accommodate them all.
The only real movement in the room was the silver disk rotating between Adams fingers.
"If you don't mind me asking?" said Ginny breaking the silence "What exactly are you getting out of your vault? Other than the wand for Prof....for Buffy?"
Adam smiled "You will find out soon enough, it's been a while since I've been to my vault, I had better check if I still have my key." he said fishing through his cloak pockets
"You didn't check?" Draco asked in disbelief.
"Ah....there it is." he said withdrawing a long box (about the size of a case for a pair of glasses) from his cloak.
"How could you not know if you were carrying something that size in your cloak?" Draco asked sceptically.
"This cloak isn't just a cloak, it dimension shifts," he explained, opening up his cloak, everyone leaned closer to get a better look ,the inside was covered with pockets, tags to hang things from, weapons sheaves sown into the fabric for throwing knifes and daggers, you name it and this cloak had it. The strange thing was that all the sheaves and holders appeared empty and flat.
"Blimey." Ron exclaimed "That must weigh a lot when it is full."
"It is full." Replied Adam, withdrawing a curved and highly decorated knife from a sheaf that had been empty until he had clasped his hand round the handle (or where the handle would have been).
"Nice." said Tonks "I heard about a DOM project to do something like that."
Adam replaced the knife in the sheave, as soon as his hand released the handle, it vanished and the pocket flattened
"Why do you have such a large case for such a small key?" asked Harry.
Adam opened the case and held it out for all to see, inside was an image of a large key on a piece of silk padding, before their eyes the key rose out of the silk and appeared as a real object laying on top of the silk, the teeth of the key were highly elaborate and the key itself was highly decorated, the vault must be very old, the key looked like it was from the Middle Ages.
"That is one big key, why do you not have a normal sized one?" Ron asked.
"Like I said it has been a while since I've been there, these keys were once the standard size up until the seventeenth century, this sort of key is only used for top security vaults now, but as I have that type of vault I did not need to change."
The others interest was peaked but they got the feeling that Adam wasn't going to tell them anything else....yet.
They spent the rest of the trip explaining to Buffy the wonders of Diagon Alley and describing what she had not seen when she had been purchasing her work clothes.
They finally arrived in London and made their way to the alley.
After entering the alley Dumbledore gave the students a return time and the group dispersed to go about their business, they were not overly worried about safety as Dumbledore had requested that Madam Bones post Auror's throughout the alley during their visit.
Upon entering Gringotts Buffy caught her first sight of Goblins, she thought they were some of the strangest creatures she had ever seen, not because of their large noses and ears but because of their size, they looked like big House Elves except for the almost permanent scowls.
Adam walked straight to the far end of the room and approached the Head Goblin.
"I wish to make a withdrawal."
"Vault type?" the goblin asked without looking up from his work.
"High Security."
The Goblin looked up, obviously more interested in this uncommon type of withdrawal.
"Vault Number?" the Goblin asked.
"Thirteen."
That got everyone's attention.
"That vault hasn't been opened in over two hundred years," The goblin asked shocked and half expecting it to be a joke "Do you have the key?"
Adam withdrew the key and handed it to the Goblin, who studied it with suspicion and wonder, the Goblin replaced the key in the case and then proceeded to study that in detail, observing the exact way that the key removed itself from the silk, he eventually handed the case back to Adam.
"That seems to be in order, please excuse me I while I obtain transportation." Replied the Goblin as he rushed of to fetch a large cart, the group from Hogwarts were intrigued, the Head Goblin never took people to their vaults, not even for Dumbledore, he usually just checked the key and then designated the job to a Clerk, what surprised most of the party further was that the Goblin had said please which Goblins never do unless they have made a mistake as regards to someone's money....which they also do not do.
They were led down to a cart and proceeded along the tracks for a good ten minutes to reach the vault, the others were watching fascinated, the vaults down here had huge doors and large amounts of key holes on each one, as they proceeded through the tunnels they heard low rumblings in the distance and wondered whether the rumours about dragons guarding the lower vaults were true. Reaching the end of the line the cart rolled to a stop, directly in front of the cart was a massive pair of doors, it was bigger than the entrance to Hogwarts.
"Vault number thirteen." the Head Goblin announced climbing out of the cart, the others following behind him.
As Adam approached the door, the Head Goblin pointed to a particular key hole as this door, like the others they had seen earlier it was peppered with them, Adam looked at the keyhole then seemed to be tracing patterns on the door with his eyes, he appeared to be following a series of instructions to reach the correct keyhole, finally having found it Adam placed the key in the lock and slowly turned, locks crunched and creaked with old age. The door didn't open.
The others exchanged glances but the goblin and Adam appeared to be following further instructions, the Goblin placed his finger inside a keyhole and Adam did the same to another, there was a sound of magical barriers being lowered, the Goblin then withdrew two keys from his robe and handed them both to Adam, Adam studied both keys, appeared to make a decision, then handed one back, they then started counting keyholes again and at the same time placed the keys in another pair of holes, there was another sound of locks moving and a small hatch opened in the door, inside was the strangest key any of the assembled group had ever seen, it looked like two keys meshed together, it had a normal handle and set of teeth but inside the first was another separate free moving key that had a handle and a set of teeth extending out the front and back of the first, the Goblin and Adam both took a hold of the key and placed it in yet another lock turning each part of the key consecutively in opposite directions, puffs of dust shot from the hinges and the door slowly swung open.
"Oh Merlin," Ron exclaimed, the others had been stunned into silence. The vault was as big as any of the Hogwarts classrooms; it was pilled to the sealing with gold and riches of every kind with only a thin isle down the middle to move down, unlike the usual vaults the riches were not stacks of gold coins but objects made of gold ranging from bowls and plates to sceptres and cups.
Adam walked to the back of the room and started studying the back wall.
"What are you looking for?" Hermione asked as the others followed him in, one of the others would have probably asked but they were all to busy starring at the rest of the contents of the vault.
Finding what he was looking for, Adam removing a gold ring (that no one had seen him wearing) from his right hand, it seemed to have a symbol on it but Hermione could not make it out.
He pressed it into a slight depression on the wall and twisted it clockwise half a turn, then rotated it back a full turn, removing it from the depression, the wall began to creak and slowly lowered into the ground, the room on the other side was half as big again, but this time seemed to be filled with more personal items, jewellery (not men's), documents, many elaborate weapons were fixed to the wall, piles of various sizes highly decorative wooden boxes, some were also arranged on tables obviously containing more valuable items, they all seemed to be arranged in some form of order though none of them could decipher it.
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Ginny was overcome with what she saw, it was gob smacking, one table seemed to draw her attention even more than the piles of gold objects in the previous room, on it was a series of crystals all perfectly diamond shaped (though Hermione would have said the Muggle term was called a rhombus) they were perfectly clear, about five centimetres tall, three centimetres in diameter and appeared to glow faintly. They radiated power.
She moved to pick one up, but someone grabbed her wrist before she made contact with the nearest crystal.
"Trust me; you do not want to touch those." Warned Adam, releasing her wrist and walking back to the small circular table he had been looking at before.
Ginny felt really embarrassed, trying to be ignored she moved over to another raised platform, she examined what lay upon in.
Only one box rested on the table, opening the lid so that it leaned back on its hinges Ginny was able to see its contents.
There were various pieces of jewellery in the box but the one piece that drew her eye rested inside a small material grip in the centre, a beautiful diamond ring. It was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen, it must be worth a fortune, almost on autopilot she picked it up and slid it onto the third finger of her left hand, it fitted perfectly.
For some reason she turned and her eyes met Draco's, she immediately turned away only to find everyone else was staring at her, Ron's look very clearly said 'Put it back'.
Adam's face was sad for an instant but he quickly covered up his expression, the ring must be very important to him.
"I'm.....I'm sorry," she said remove it from her finger, dropping it in her haste "Oh God I am so sorry, I....I didn't mean to." she said beginning to panic.
Adam walked over, all eyes followed him as he moved, Ginny stood frozen to the spot as he slowly picked up the ring.
He stared at the ring between his fingers, Ginny was almost terrified to move, what had she done, how could she have been so careless, she shouldn't have been looking through someone else's private things.
Adam then did something very unexpected.
He reached out, took her shaking hand and placed the ring on her palm.
"Keep it, I have no use for it." he said kindly before returning to the table he had been examining.
Ginny was overcome, no one had ever given her something so beautiful or so expensive, she would have said that she couldn't accept it but the look in Adam's eyes before he moved off clearly said it was pointless to argue.
Harry, Hermione, Ron, Buffy, Fleur, Colette and Tonks all moved to examine the ring as Ginny, still in shock returned the ring to her finger; it really was one of the most beautiful thing she had ever seen.
Hermione and Ron exchanged a look before quickly turned away when they realised what they were doing to the amusement of Harry and the others.
Dumbledore, unbeknown to the others saw the slight pain on Adam's face as he turned away, that ring was important to him, it really hurt him to give it away, he just hopped Miss Weasley would take care of it, he could tell Adam would be deeply wounded if she lost it.
Adam tapped an area of a circular table and an opening appeared in the side, out of which slid a wand.
"Buffy." he called as she looked up from the ring and moved towards him.
"Your wand." he said removing it and holding it out for her "Willow, fourteen inches, essence of demon." she turned to him shocked at this last statement "It should interact well with you Slayer powers."
Buffy gave the wand a nervous look before carefully picking it off of Adam's palm, as soon as she did the room was an explosion of light and colour, it swirled, twisted and finally dissipated.
"That wand was DEFINITELY meant for you." Hermione contributed.
"Try it," Harry suggested "Wingardium Leviosa." he pronounced, replicating Hermione's tone perfectly, earning a snort from Ron before both received death glares from Hermione.
Buffy turned towards the box Ginny had got the ring from and took a deep breath; she had already cast several spells with Tonks wand so she was not totally new to this.
"Wingardium Leviosa." she pronounced rather forcefully.
The box flew upwards and collided with the sealing exploded along with all its contents.
Adam visibly flinched when the box blew up, for anyone looking closely (in this case only Hermione) they could see that he was shaking slightly.
"I'm....Adam, I'm sorry....I....I didn't mean." Buffy stuttered, fingering her new wand like it could explode at any moment.
Adam turned to her and said slowly.
"Not quite so powerful next time."
Hermione withdrew her wand.
"Reparo." the fragments on the floor twitched before settling back to the floor "Reparo!"
"Thank you for trying, but that will not work." Adam commented.
Hermione felt sorry for him, had he not given that ring to Ginny it would have gone up as well.
Buffy looked down at her wand, handling it a bit less cautiously as she turned it over in her hands. The wood was highly decorated, though Buffy didn't think it was for decorative purposes, Dumbledore, Hermione and Colette all moved to examine the wand.
"Fascinating," Dumbledore commented "I presume these runes are to give the wand additional power?"
He was obviously trying to change the subject and thankfully Adam let him.
"Yes, they also help to contain the power at its core and channel it in manageable amounts, you just need to learn how to channel it." he said to Buffy "That is a powerful wand." he turned and walked towards an alter at the back of the room.
"Edra."
The top of the alter slid open and a staff extended out of the hole before floating to Adam's side.
The staff was white, tapering towards the base. At the top it coiled out into a delicate pattern, it then flowed back together to meet at the top, the delicate pattern was gripped around a large clear crystal, it was bigger than those which Ginny had seen earlier which were about five centimetres tall, this was at least fifteen in height, the crystal was visible on six sides between the delicate patterned wood which gripped it.
Adam extended his hand and grasped the staff; it let of a blinding light that lit up the entire room, forcing the others to look away or risk permanent eye damage.
After a minute the light faded until it was safe to see again, when the others finally managed to look they saw Adam looking better than he had in days.
"Wow." Hermione managed to say.
"You can say that again." agreed Colette.
"I want one." Exclaimed Ron.
AUTHORS NOTE: Is anyone interested in betaing this story for me?
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