days at Hogwarts

Chapter 112 Trace Wire
Loren looked at the parchment in a daze, but ordinary parchment looked different in his eyes.

The paper surface exudes a mist of light, and the words on it flow with magical light patterns.

This is a magical contract, and the little wizard signed his name, which means that he has signed the contract, and the contents of the contract will take effect.

One side of the contract is the little wizard, and the other side is the Ministry of Magic.

According to the above rules and regulations, after the contract is signed, the Ministry of Magic will be able to detect the spell cast by the little wizard, the place where the spell was cast, and the specific time when the spell was cast.

This kind of contract that implied surveillance made Loren feel very uncomfortable.Even if he is not breaking the law, he is not willing to be watched all the time.

"Don't pay attention to this stuff, George and Weasley abuse magic every year during the holidays, and I haven't seen them being expelled." Ron signed his name at the end of the page indifferently.

"That's because Mom, an adult wizard, is at home, and the Ministry of Magic can't tell whether it's a young wizard or an adult wizard who is casting a spell, so it won't issue a warning letter," Percy said.

Percy worried that they would take Ron at his word and violate Ministry of Magic regulations.

Loren and Hermione looked at each other, noncommittal.

They were the last group of people who didn't sign the paperwork, and with Percy on the side, it wasn't easy to make him wait too long.

Harry, Hermione, and Loren signed their names one after another.

As the last letter of Loren's name was written, his magical perspective opened, and he saw a ray of golden light from the mist on the parchment magic contract, which swam around his arm and finally wrapped around his chest. On the middle finger, restrain the light.

Looking up, the other people were also in the same situation.The tiny traces are attached to the fingers, the light is dim, hidden under the magic light of the little wizard himself, it is difficult to distinguish without looking carefully.

Percy folded the parchment neatly, smiled and looked at several people, "Okay, warriors, enjoy your cheers."

Simo rushed forward with other people, pestering them to ask, "Tell us quickly..."

After a few words of coping, Loren quickly pulled Hermione out of the crowd's encirclement.Leaving Ron enjoying the cheers and Harry enduring the torment.

Ron picked out some exciting and exciting parts for artistic processing, causing the little wizards to cheer from time to time.

"Harry looks so pathetic." Loren looked back at the crowd.

Hermione blushed and pulled out her hand calmly, "I'm going back to pack my things and take a shower. I'll see you at lunch."

The little witch ran away quickly with her head bowed and her chest in her chest.

The figure of Loren girl going away, I can't figure it out, why is it so urgent?

He slowly returned to the bedroom.

Hermione needed to pack her things and sort out the books she was taking home.Tomorrow night is the year-end banquet. They were delayed in the hospital for too long, and they were a little rushed.

Loren recalled the contents of the previous parchment contract, and always felt that Zongsi's function was very strange.

After signing this agreement, any other creature with the ability to cast spells that uses magic within the range will be detected by Zongsi, and it will be counted as a violation of the regulations by the little wizard, and a warning letter will be sent to the little wizard.

In the original book, Dobby the house-elf uses magic next to Harry, only to receive a warning letter from the Ministry of Magic.Harry blows his aunt away in rage, doesn't use his wand, and is quickly detected by the Ministry of Magic, who issues a warning.

Zongsi does not detect whether the little wizard has cast a spell, but detects signs of magic in the surrounding environment, and uses them as a basis to judge whether the little wizard has violated the regulations.

But if there are adult wizards around the little wizard, Zongsi will not respond, or the Ministry of Magic will not issue a warning letter.

No matter how you think about it, it feels very wrong.

Loren pulled back the curtains on his bed in the dormitory. Even though he hadn't come back for a few days, the bed was still very clean and free from dust.He turned on the bed and took out the "General Explanation of Pictographic Symbols" under the pillow, and his consciousness entered the space in the book.

"Flamel, do you know Zongsi?"

Hearing Loren's question, Flamel looked complicated, and after thinking for a while, he replied: "Zosi is a magic dug out from a pile of old papers. In fact, the Ministry of Magic's use of Zosi, whether it is legal or There are many loopholes in technology..."

In Flamel's telling, Loren knows something.

Since the beginning of the 15th century, Muggle persecution of wizards and wizards has taken steps across Europe.Many wizards and witches were imprisoned and sentenced to death (beheading, burning) for practicing witchcraft and showing traces of magic.

Some wizards enjoy teasing Muggles and take pleasure in it.For example, the fortune teller Wen Delin, she likes the feeling of being burned, so she deliberately disguised herself in various ways, allowing Muggles to capture her 47 times and burn her 47 times.

Similar to Lisette de la Pin in 1422, she was able to use magic to escape if she was caught.

But with the escalation of the struggle between the two sides, Muggles seem to have summed up some experience.In the later stage, some wizards are not so lucky.

For example, Sir Nicholas Demisy Popington in 1492 is almost headless Nick. He was taken away from his wand and put in a dungeon, so he could not use magic to escape the fate of being executed.

The struggle is getting more and more fierce. Adult wizards have the ability to protect themselves and occasionally suffer casualties, while juvenile wizards are more vulnerable to danger.

Wizarding families are especially vulnerable to losing their children, who are not yet in control of their magic, often attract the attention of Muggles who hunt wizards, and are powerless to resist.

As the persecution of wizarding children by Muggles became more common, more and more Muggles forced wizards to use magic for them, and the burning of witches increased day by day, including the increasing number of Muggles being mistaken for witches and burning.

The newly established British Ministry of Magic sent a special delegation to contact the Muggle monarchs William III and Mary II, hoping that Muggle laws would recognize and protect wizards.

The failure of this attempt to obtain official recognition and protection forced wizards to voluntarily develop in the opposite direction—going underground and keeping secrets.

In this regard, the "International Confederation of Wizards Secrecy Act" was introduced.

The original intention of Zongsi started from the protection of underage wizards. This magic detects all magical behaviors, not a certain person who casts magic.

In the turbulent era, when magic fluctuations appeared around minor wizards, a warning letter would be sent to their homes.

But instead of warning underage wizards about their use of magic, it's about warning families of wizards when and where their children might be at risk of being exposed.

After the little wizard's parents saw it, they would sort out the situation at that time, and they didn't need to respond to the warning letter if there was no danger.Move as soon as possible if there is a risk.

This tradition has been preserved until now, and has deviated from the original intention at that time.Muggles' persecution of wizards has decreased, and warning letters have lost their effect.

For a while, parents of students at Hogwarts found themselves using a little magic only to receive a letter from the Ministry of Magic.For a wizard housewife, receiving up to hundreds of warning letters a day is extremely annoying.

At that time, the law of secrecy had begun to take effect, and wizards began to stay away from the meddling society, and gathered towards some famous hermits. Gathering would generate a market and bring benefits.

This common phenomenon has been noticed by pure-blood families, and with the accumulated financial resources of generations, they gradually control some fundamental industries.

This is all well and good, with the exception of Muggle-borns.

The progress of sociology, economics and other disciplines in modern Muggle society is more than the sum of the past few thousand years.

Wizards born in Muggle families can quickly use their ideological advantages in business and politics.

The elite of pure-blood families spotted this, but their arrogance disdained Muggle knowledge in favor of keeping Muggle wizards at bay.

The pure-blood families unite.Economically, pure blood business is only done with pure blood.Politically, the pure-blood families use a lot of political donations to help their spokespersons to important positions.

Educationally, they also figured out how to curb the growth of Muggle-born wizards.Under the manipulation of the pure-blood family, the Ministry of Magic revised the "Trace-Warning Letter" regulations.Parents of children from wizarding or mixed-race families who use magic do not receive warning letters.

But if you come from a Muggle family, and only little wizards in an area can do magic, you will be warned.

So far, Zongsi and the "Law on Reasonable Restraint of Underage Wizards" have turned into pure blood's persecution of little wizards from Muggle families.

This is a regulation that curbs the growth of Muggle wizards from the root of education, so that they cannot practice spells during the holidays, and can only increase their magical knowledge by reading pitifully few books.

But they don't have more books than wizarding families, and wizarding students from Muggle families are hardly better than students from wizarding backgrounds.

Throughout my student life, I can't practice magic during the holidays. After returning to school, I have to spend time reviewing what I have learned before, and I have to learn new knowledge.If this part of wizards wants to catch up with the teaching progress, they have to spend more hard work.

But Hogwarts is not very strict. Little wizards can graduate as long as they can pass the exam.

Many young wizards in Muggle families are unaware of their lack of abilities.After they graduate, they can only become low-level laborers in the magic world, or return to the Muggle world.

In the end, Flamel concluded: "It's a domination! A domination of pure blood!"

Loren stood aside, digesting what Flamel said.

He did not investigate whether anyone had lodged a complaint with the Ministry of Magic to amend the bill in the past hundred years.It also didn't investigate why the past Ministers of Magic, or even a great man like Dumbledore, didn't amend this bill.

You don't need to think about it, this is a common rule made by all pure blood families.

Even Muggle-born wizards who grow up later will uphold this rule, because their children will become the beneficiaries of this law.

To liquidate and revise is no less than a revolution to the entire wizarding society.It also involves the existence of secrecy laws.

After a while, Loren came back to his senses, "Is there any way to remove traces?"

That's what he wanted to ask at the beginning.

Flamel smiled slightly when he heard this question, as if he didn't care about Loren's opinion on it.

His illusory body swam behind Loren, leaned into his ear and said, "That's why, I would say that Zongsi is a magic dug out of old papers..."

Tracing back to the source, Zongsi originated in the slave society, and it is an ancient magic used by slave owners to supervise and control slaves.Later slavery was overthrown, and this magic became a document on paper.

It wasn't until the time of constructing the security measures that some old pedants turned this magic out.

Because the source is too old and the time is too long, even the old pedants can't figure out the magic principle in it. In the end, they combined traces and magic contracts to create a four-dimensional "Reasonable Restraint Law for Underage Wizards".

It would be a huge project to decipher the magic principle, not to mention the magic contract involved which made Zongsi even more complicated.

But in the same way, the traces restored by later generations according to cats and tigers are not as powerful as ancient magic, nor are they so accurate. It can only be a magical detection of the surrounding environment.

In other words, it is a magically sensitive material.The easiest and most direct way is to wash it away with magic power.

Without using magic, the little wizard's own magic power will continue to wash away, erasing the existence of traces.

If the magic power of the wizard itself is used, this process will last for several years without external interference.

Taking an ordinary Hogwarts student as an example, a normal little wizard's magic power will continue to grow with age.Probably by the time he graduated, at the age of 17, the magic power flowing naturally in his body could wash away traces.

This is why the Ministry of Magic declared that little wizards would not be supervised after they reached adulthood.It's not that they are not supervised, but they can't be supervised.

"Is there a faster way?"

Flamel smiled brightly, "Of course there is, should I remind you, the most powerful source of magic power in the world."

"The Sorcerer's Stone!" Loren clapped his hands and had an epiphany.

What are you waiting for, Loren got out of bed and went straight to the principal's office, anyway, he also wanted to find Dumbledore.

Passing by the lounge, Ron was still bragging about how he used chess pieces to hold Quirrell, but there were far fewer little wizards in front of him.

Harry sat next to him, looking painful, as if he had a bug on his back, twisting his body and moving his butt from time to time.

Principal's office.

"Principal Dumbledore, let me get my Philosopher's Stone." Loren sat down at the desk confidently.

Dumbledore was checking Hogwarts' school year financial report. Hearing this, he raised his head and looked at Loren with a smile, "Oh, I think it's the Sorcerer's Stone I borrowed from Nico. It can't be called your Sorcerer's Stone anyway. "

Loren poured himself a cup of tea, "Just give it to me anyway."

Dumbledore thought for a while, put down the documents in his hand, opened a small drawer in front of him, took out a red translucent crystal, and handed it to Loren.

This is the Philosopher's Stone?Loren looked at the stone.

The crystal blue of his eyes intertwined with shadows, and the stone shone with blinding light.

If Dumbledore's magic is to look like a little sun, this thing is really a little sun.

Loren turned his head immediately and covered his eyes, but it was too late.

"Ah!" A strong light flashed in front of my eyes, and it was white, swollen and painful.Tears could not stop streaming out.

Dumbledore looked at Loren dumbfounded. This little greedy ghost has learned a lesson.

He tapped lightly on the top of Loren's head with his wand, and Loren immediately felt a coolness enveloping his eyeballs, the swelling and pain gradually faded away, and his eyes became clear again.

Loren turned his head away and didn't dare to look at the Sorcerer's Stone again. He had nothing to love, and his golden finger became a debuff.You can't even look at the Philosopher's Stone, so how will you refine it in the future?

"Okay, you can watch it." Dumbledore smiled.

Only then did Loren turn his head slowly, and when he realized that there was no strong light, he guiltily avoided Dumbledore's sight.

It was with Dumbledore's help that the eyes could recover.If you are alone, you can't help but be blinded by the flash.

Dumbledore said: "These eyes are a unique gift, you should learn to control it, not passively accept it."

Loren was a little dazed, "How should I control this, I can't decide what I see with my eyes."

"Loren, magic vision and real vision are two different dimensions, of course you can control it."

Dumbledore looked into Loren's eyes, "Magic power is not just color and light. Your eyes just use this instinctive way to convey information to you. If you can control this perception, you can turn the light of the Philosopher's Stone into a softer landscape."

(End of this chapter)