章 113: Confiscated.
"Is Fudge willing to let this happen?" Draco asked getting a bit pissed, "Did he grow some wings out of nowhere?"
"Draco, you need to understand that the Ministry is run by not only Fudge but a lot of different other people." Lucius said, "Even though Fudge is in charge of controlling things in ministry—there are many other people who are just as powerful as him. And if Fudge keeps favoring you, they wouldn't hesitate to release the news and change the minister. Of course, he could help you in this but since we are forcing him to do these stuff, he is taking every chance to retaliate against us."
"So we can't do anything about this?"
"No, we can't." Lucius sighed, "Why even use magic in public against someone like Lockhart?"
"Long story short, I wasn't in a good mood."
"Well, make sure to keep it in check." Lucius said, "As you've read, your punishment is having your wand confiscated by the ministry for 6 months."
"Wait, they can't do that, especially when Draco is going to Durmstrang." Pansy said getting worried, "With his circumstances walking around without a wand is not good."
Lucius looked at Draco confused, "I told her about it." Draco said, "When are they coming for my wand?"
"In a couple of hours." Lucius said, "It's best not to resist, I can pull in some connection and have the ban reduce."
"Are the wizarding families going to stay silent about this?" Pansy said again.
"It's no use." Draco sighed, "Finally after many years, our image has begun to change in the eyes of the public, so risking it for this isn't worth it. I am sure if we retaliate against this, Fudge would bring equality and justice in the case making us fall under his trap."
"But…"
"Don't worry, I have my ancestor's wand with me and it's good enough." Draco said, even before this Draco was already contemplating on whether he should take his wand or not. Since even Ryan seems to know about the wand and knowing how mysterious his wand was, Draco didn't want to take a risk with letting the wand fall under Ryan's hands in case things goes sideways. Considering the mystery surrounding his knowledge, Draco couldn't let Ryan take control of his wand, and with this it would at least be protected to a certain extent. "What I am pissed about is Fudge."
"I knew he would try to repel the pressure somehow but I didn't expect him to do it this early on." Lucius said, "Even though he is stupid, his arrogance isn't lesser than anyone of us."
"Well, we will need to take care of that." Draco said, "Let's leave it for now… are you sure he isn't going to turn his back on the promise."
"He wouldn't." Lucius shook his head, "But are you sure, that he isn't going to use this against us."
"Well, it's important so we can't do anything about that." Draco said, "And with the Unbreakable Vow he has with you, we don't need to worry much about it."
A couple of hours before the interview took place, Lucius and Draco managed to force Fudge on making an unbreakable vow with three promises, by blackmailing his authority, they got what they wanted. The first promise was for Fudge to not reveal any information on Draco to the public or any person and about the deal, they made before and today. The second promise was for Fudge to support the purebloods and act for there welfare every time, and the last promise was a bit special which included Fudge granting Draco a secret visit to Azkaban.
"We should've made stricter vows." Lucius said sighing, "But even then, forcing him to make such promises might've backfired on us instead."
"We couldn't do much about it back then." Draco said, "Let's forget about it. I think this is much better as they wouldn't be able to track my wand and I can use magic all I want."
(It's unknown how the wand is controlled by the ministry, so I am making up rules that would seem logical, in case you're confused.)
After an hour, Two Aurors came and took Draco's wand along with them. Due to Fudge's unwilling support, Draco didn't have to go through long procedures and the case was solved by just giving him the punishment. Since wands are marked by the ministry, escaping or giving a fake wand would be impossible unless you know how to remove the track. There wasn't any specific spell to do so, Draco was sure that one would have to come up with an original spell of their own to remove the tracking spell.
Draco added another thing in his list of spells he needed to learn and that was none other than the track removing spell. Draco knew that even Voldemort hadn't managed to come up with this spell, so one could tell that it was very difficult. Rather than coming with a new way of releasing the tracking spell, using someone else's wand would be more effective.
"So what are we going to do?" Pansy said, "I have no mood to go out now, it's so unfair…"
"Well, I am the one who lost my temper so I am the one to blame here." Draco said, "I have to make way with this wand now."
Draco looked at the old wand in his hand. Draco didn't know much about this wand other than that it was made out of Aspen wood, which was made infamous by The Silver Spears. The Silver Spears was a notorious and secretive dueling club in the 18th century that allegedly only allowed wizards and witches who possessed wands made from aspen wood to join. It is said that the proper owner of the aspen wand is often an accomplished duellist or destined to be so, for the aspen wand is one of those particularly suited to martial magic. Due to this, the club created a reputation for themselves and Aspen wood wand. No one knows for certain if the club is really gone or they learned to be more secretive and hidden over the past years.
The ancestor's whose wand he was using was said to be part of the Silver Spears club as well. Draco, himself was very interested in the club ever since he heard about it from his father about the wand and its origin, especially due to its concept of martial magic. The terms martial magic or combative magic are used to refer to the forms of magic used defensively and offensively in wizard duels, the current style he was using or at least was trying to use. Durmstrang was one of the only few known schools which still taught different form of martial magic. Even though at the end of the day power is what really matters but with the help of certain martial techniques, a weak person is said to hold the ability to defeat a strong enemy at ease. Draco had seen a person use it before, the girl named Mary Kate (Had mentioned her before, Chapter 17, if you forgot.) Remembering the girl, Draco shook his head and sighed.
(The things about martial magic isn't very clear so I am giving it my own twist.)
Draco was interested in Durmstrang before due to this but since he knew his destiny lied in Hogwarts, he chose the latter. But now since he was going to Durmstrang anyhow, he was a bit excited in learning martial magic none the less. Even though with Ryan, things might not be simple as it is, Draco still wanted to make the best of the situation.
"Does other wands not work for you, why not try others than this old one." Lucius said looking at the old silver wand. Even though Aspen wands are famous for their silver-white color and ivory-like finish, the wand was too old and looked rusty.
"You know that the other wands don't suit me so much." Draco said waving the wand around, "It's not like we haven't tried before, maybe we can get it tuned at Ollivanders."
"And get the wand marked?" Lucius said, "With your reckless behaviors, I don't think that it would be a good idea."
"Then what do you suggest we do?" Draco said, "Do you know a place where I can get it tuned, since I will be using it for a couple of months, I would like to have it in its peak condition."
"Why not just get another wand?" Pansy suggested.
"You were with me that day when I bought my wand, weren't you?" Draco said, "I don't know if I would have to try a million different wand to find the one that will fit me."
Pansy remembering the scene that day, gave up.
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