Chapter 528: Ollivander’s Wandlore - Core Resurrection! (IV)
Mr. Ollivander filled his lungs with a direly needed breath. "You must be familiar with the Law of Contagion, Darcie?"
Darcie's brows stood up on their ends. She nodded. "The belief that once two people or objects have been in contact, a magical link persists between them."
Mr. Ollivander smiled. "Good," he praised.
"In Core Resurrecting, we strengthen this magical link by letting the ingredient interact with an alive magical being. Or, a magical tree capable of giving wand woods in this case.
"When such a tree is found, preferably a plant, we cut a branch near the node on the stem. Then we hollow both parts of the branches in such a way that when the wand core is put there, half will remain on one side and half on the other.
"The middle of the wand core, now within the branch, will roughly align with the place where the cut was made. The current principle of Grafting has evolved from the Core Resurrecting method."
Darcie felt awed. "Then..."
Mr. Ollivander's smile broadened.
"You are good at inferring details, I knew," he commented. "Yes. Then we let the plant grow, nourishing the wand core, awakening it.
"Meanwhile, the wand core interacts with the wand wood, becoming something more than the individual parts.
"This is the resurrection of wand core, Darcie. At its core, we resurrect the wand core, making it behave as the magical creature from which it had been taken."