After they bought all the books that they needed for their first and third years, which was a lot, because Akira, Ann and Ryuji had to buy books for the magical subjects like charms, DADA, transfiguration, herbology, history of magic, astronomy, magical theory, comparative religion, muggle/wizard studies and potions and for the muggle subjects like Japanese, Math, Latin, the foreign language classes, Science, Geography, muggle history, arts and music and Makoto had chosen the needed electives for becoming an auror and bought the books for the needed electives. Makoto bought the third-year materials in the same subjects like Akira, Ann and Ryuji, but in addition she bought books for ancient runes, arithmancy and alchemy. Apart from that she was also attending two sport clubs, which were required for those, who wanted to become aurors. Makoto chose the martial art class and the athlete course that were recommended for auror training. Next, they went to buy the wands. Akira remembered, when Makoto bought her wand. Her wand was made of aspen wood and dragon heartstring. The wandmaker was surprised, because aspen was made for duelists and was particularly suited for martial magic. Ann had a hawthorn wand with phoenix’ tears and Ryuji had a wand made of ash wood with a unicorn hair, whereas Akira had a wand made of blackthorn and elder wood that was combined with a thestral hair and phoenix feather. The wandmaker said to Ann that her wand was made for healers and its speciality was for healing magic. To Ryuji, the man said that ash wood was for those, who were stubborn and courageous, but not crass or arrogant. And Akira had received a strange lecture about his wand. The wandmaker was very curious, because his wand was really the rarest and he also explained both woods. He explained that elder wood was the wood, that according to the legend of the three Peverell brothers, death used, in order to create the famous Elderwand, and blackthorn was used for those, who were going to be warriors and fighters.