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What is a Strix Wix, and how can I get one of your enchanted wands: it would really help in my work, if I could use something like 'Organo Repairo'!

Sorry to have missed your question, Hamouda. As for what you can do with this particular wand, you'll have to ask Tom! By now, both Tom and the wand will be very much attuned to one another, and I'm afraid I have no idea what he uses it for - indeed, in our world, that would be rather impolite to ask, and equally I cannot divulge what Tom has gone on to do. (He is in his early 20s, now, and lives a good way off, so we have rather lost touch, though I usually see him, once each year, when he visits at Christmas.)

Rosewood is a dense, hard, many-coloured, often brittle timber, and as such it is suited to the witch or wizard who makes decisions and takes actions spontaneously, without too much consideration of the alternative possibilities. This can be a good or a bad thing, of course, depending on the character and natural inclinations of the person concerned.

Thanks for the kind comment!

A pipe organ!

Ok.

It just comes naturally! Thanks for the encouraging comment.

My pleasure! As far as I know, the trick with the thumb was my own idea, after I had spent almost 2 weeks trying to find out how to tie one of these things. Of course, it may well be that someone else thought of it first, and I have seen it appear in the odd video since this, rather old, presentation was first put on. I'm glad you found it useful, and thanks for the comment.

Gareth improvised all the music, without any preparation, so when it's gone ... it's gone!

My pleasure ... glad you liked it.

@@Offshoreorganbuilder does that mean you can't wear it from the neck at all?

Thanks! (Sorry the image quality is not as good as it might be, these days.)

The magical community has to live in the same country as the non-magical one, so we are affected in more or less the same way, though we do have the advantage of being able to isolate ourselves rather more effectively, by the use of charms which discourage others from coming too close. (Mind you, how many actually make use of such methods is questionable!)

Thanks for the encouraging comment.

My pleasure - glad you found it useful. (p.s. Did you find the volume too low, as some others have commented?)

People with magical ability are really no different from anyone else - leaving aside the magic, of course! We have our likes and dislikes, our triumphs and failures, our friendships and those with whom we do not get on. There are the good, the bad, the selfish and the selfless, the stupid and the intelligent - just like any group of human beings; and, like any other group of people, how far we get in life depends upon luck, opportunity, education and application.

My answers to your questions (which I made some while ago) do not seem to be here, so, to repeat, you would normally be expecting contact from a school of magic by your teens, at the very latest, and the actual system of sorting pupils into 'houses' or other groups depends on the individual school.

I'm glad you liked the video, and sorry it if was too quiet. I shall have to be aware of that, in future. On my own computer, it sounds fine, of course, but evidently this is not always the case.

Offshoreorganbuilder audio was fine, cultured and suited the video. Your accent would make the instruction of tying a shoelace seem refined😊

Thanks for letting me know, and for your encouraging comment. It seems that some people *are* finding the volume too low, and others are not. I shall bear this in mind, in future.

There *are* concealment charms, it is true, but these are usually used to hide small objects from anyone - magical or non-magical, in the same way that you might hide something inside a hollow book. It is not really a practical method, and it certainly would not work for something as large as a building.

A great comment, and I entirely agree with you, regarding 'making your own.' Most people are completely clueless as to how to tie or wear an Ascot, so there is no recognised appearance for one. (I imagine that, in Victorian or Edwardian times, the details of how you tied your Ascot would be admired, or not, but these days, when no-one much knows how to tie a bow tie, and many cannot make a proper job of tying a standard neck-tie, any kind of Ascot is bound to attract admiration and general amazement. And when you add to that the remark, 'I made it, myself,' your are bound to be on a winner! Congratulations and good luck on the big day!

As you might expect, Sam, those of use with magical abilities tend to make friends with others of the same kind, and often live amongst those with similar interests. This has certainly led to groups of magical people living close to each other - but it is not a deliberate policy, nor is it uniquely true. You may well know someone who has magic, and never be aware of it!

Dear Krishaa, My apologies for the late reply, as I have been rather busy with other matters, lately. If you do have magical abilities, you are already a member of the magical community, and will be enrolled in a suitable school as soon as you reach the appropriate age. (This age varies, slightly, depending on your country, but it is usually before you would become a teenager.)

Dear Krishnaa, I am afraid I am unable to tell you exactly where I live - otherwise I should never get any peace. Like almost everyone one with my unusual abilities, I realise the value of maintaining the appearance of someone who is just like anyone else you might meet - just another, rather boring, harmless old man, who takes long holidays away with his extended family. You ask if it is possible to join the magical world, and the answer is, unfortunately, 'no', not unless you possess natural magic abilities.

Professor what do you mean by natural magic abilities

The image quality is not great, I'm afraid, but many seem to find this video helpful, and I am glad that you are one of them. Thanks for writing in.

All the pieces are improvisations by Gareth Moore, made up at the moment of recording.

@@Offshoreorganbuilder I love it so much. I'll try replicating it on musescore or something because it's just so cool. It sounds kinda like a bach minuet or something!

Thanks!

I am sorry to say that my knowledge of the phoenix is limited to its use in wand-making, but its diet must be very similar to other, non-magical species, in the same way in which those of us with magic are no different to anyone else in our likes and dislikes.

Good! (And good luck with the test.)

@@Offshoreorganbuilder Thanks I got......actually I forgot what score I got but I think it is a 7/10

Not bad!

@@Offshoreorganbuilder Thanks

There are, inevitably, some magical objects which have found their way into the non-magical world. Where these are still 'active' in some way, or capable of being accidentally used, they are traced and either retrieved or otherwise made inert - usually the latter, as removing an object simply draws attention to it. The very few which 'slip through the net' are the ones which turn up as 'talismans' or 'lucky charms'. When this happens, it always comes to the attention of someone with magical abilities, and this results in the 'talisman' being made inert: which is why so few of these objects work as they were originally said to!

Prof. Petros, I meant in a museum or something because someone very important had it in his/her possession.

@@samrubbertommywatergun5098 This may well be the case, Sam, but such objects would no longer have any magical potential, as I explained, above.

This has happened more often than you might think, but in every case it has happened without the knowledge of those in the non-magical world - for obvious reasons. The times when something of real importance just happened to 'turn out right' might well be instances of interference from a person, or people, with magical ability. It is not unknown for someone in the 'non-magic' world to have a friend from the 'other side', and in there are cases of one friend helping another, as you might expect, though always without the knowledge of the recipient!

Dear Sam, The immediate answer to your question is 'yes' of course there are. With their innate advantages, and human nature being what it is, there has been more than one case of a person with magical ability who has used that gift in the non-magical world to their advantage. The penalties for doing so (from 'our' side) are severe, though, and such people therefore maintain a strictly low profile, both from the magical as well as the non-magical community. Otherwise, the world would be full of such people, preying upon others.

My pleasure! Glad you found it useful, despite the rather poor quality video.

Kindly suggest me some beginner's learning book..

Dear Esther, Practical tuition in magic is always given, either from relatives or magically-gifted friends, or (more usually) through the school system of the country in which you live, so for that reason I am afraid that I cannot advise you. There is one other presentation in which you may be interested, though I do not think it will be of much help to you: try searching for 'Foxglove Charm'. Good luck!

esther ravi here’s the link if you need it ; czcams.com/video/SRS1QuL904g/video.html

I am limited in what I allowed to say in answer to that question, Sam, but I can confirm that turning lead into gold was a misconceived ambition of some of the earlier experimenters in what came to be known as 'alchemy'. We certainly do not recognise them, now, as alchemists, though their early attempts did lead others along a more fruitful path. Alchemical Studies - as a school subject - deals with the basic principles of the nature of materials, both living and dead, natural and man-made, and the way in which they react and influence each other and the human beings, plants and animals around them. For instance, Tom's relationship with what we might reasonably call *his* wand-tree would fall within that subject. His presence had an influence on the tree, and it its turn, the tree would undoubtedly have modified Tom's perception and guided his thinking in a certain way. That would probably explain how he came to perform the complex magic of core insertion; something which should have been beyond a person of his age, experience, and ability. Equally, the manner in which the manticore skin, the wand, and Tom, influenced each other, when he attempted disapparition in the way in which he did, is another example. Alchemical Studies is a very wide and complex area of interest and there are many who have spent their lives in investigating it.

Thanks!

I looked for your video, but could not find it. Could you send a link?

@@Offshoreorganbuilder It's here at my lil channel, I have a rainbow wig on, called Antique pocket watch FOB, can't miss it. Hope you enjoy it friend.

In broad terms, you are correct, thought you must remember that some people will be much more sensitive than others. Even so, I think we have all experienced feeling that there was something 'odd' or 'strange' about a place or a situation, and, in at least some cases, this could be the reason why.

I'm afraid not. The organ is now in Spain, and the chapel has been converted into a house.

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The character of Merlin is part of a legend - the British legend of King Arthur. Whether there is any truth in any legend is debatable, i.e. it cannot be proved nor disproved - that is the way of it, with legends. But it is nice story, all the same, with some good moral lessons within it.

I think the threat of being burned at the stake, or rolled down a hill in a spiked barrel, would be a good enough reason to maintain a low profile, don't you?! (Sadly, there are many ignorant human beings in the world, and it is the nature of such people to distrust and even attack what they do not understand.

But the world can be better we can change

Yes professor we can change

If you got it, you got it If you aint you aint -

Dear Khaleed, though he puts it rather bluntly, Daniel is correct, from a practical point of view. Everyone has *some* magical ability, but in most cases it is too weak, even to show. Those we term 'magical' have that ability to a degree to which it can become useful if properly channelled.

Dear Khaleed, I think you meant to write, ' ... of which you know?' (Sorry, but I could not resist correcting your grammar.) To answer your question, I cannot say. As in any community, we all have our strengths and weaknesses in different aspects of life.

Dear Khaleed, Your question is not a valid one, I am afraid, in that there is no 'war' between the magical and the non-magical communities. If you meant to ask if the two communities would ever come to fully know and accept one another, then I think the answer will be 'yes' - but it will take a very long time, due to prejudices on both sides.