Hogwarts and the Atypical Wizard

In the blink of an eye, it was the weekend and a heavy snow covered Hogwarts, covering it in a blanket of white.

The campus was filled with a joyful atmosphere, and the little wizards all had smiles on their faces, because they would be on holiday next week, for a full three weeks.

It lasts from December 18th to January 6th of the new year.

Coincidentally, December 18th was a Monday, which meant that they had actually been on holiday since the 16th, but they had two days to participate in school activities.

Sainz decided to spend a week dealing with matters in the Muggle world and return for the dinner on Christmas Day.

"It's a bit troublesome. Fortunately, I made preparations in advance. Well, children are troublesome."

At dinner time on the weekend, all students leaving school received a notice warning them that minors were not allowed to use magic outside of school.

The senior students wailed, "This is not fair..."

The point about minors not being allowed to use magic outside of school is debatable.

It is said that the Ministry of Magic has a monitoring magic called "Tracing" that can monitor the use of magic by minors.

That's true, but it's not accurate.

Harry first received a warning when Dobby the house-elf performed a levitation spell at Harry's aunt's house, which was mistakenly thought to be Harry casting a spell in front of Muggles.

Hermione tried many tricks before entering school, but received no warning.

From these two points, it can be seen that this so-called trace only appeared after entering school.

In the past, there was a view that the trace was cast on the magic wand.

Sainz searched the entire book but found no supporting evidence for this argument.

There is a more reliable view that Trace Thread is actually a kind of "contract magic", and the carrier of the contract is the warning notice that students received before leaving school.

This argument is relatively more convincing.

But this argument also has a weakness which is not a weakness.

It can be seen from the original trajectory that students will receive such a warning every time they go on vacation.

There is a loophole here. If the Trace is really on this piece of paper, if a student appears outside the school during the semester due to some special circumstances, wouldn't he bypass the supervision of the Ministry of Magic?

According to Sainz's own speculation, the trace was not in the wand, nor in the warning notice, nor in any monitoring network, but in Hogwarts itself.

Analyzing each item one by one, there was no supervision before admission, but there was supervision after admission.

There was no surveillance on the school bus. Of course, the school bus was part of Hogwarts, but that was another matter.

The fundamental point of supervision lies before and after admission.

In other words, it depends on whether you have entered the walls of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Another point that supports Sainz's belief that Trace is in Hogwarts is Trace's automatic age recognition function.

As long as you turn seventeen, the trace will automatically disappear, and if you use magic again, the Ministry of Magic won't know about it, not even for a second.

This reminded him of the fact that young wizards at Hogwarts would receive an acceptance letter when they turned eleven. Even if your birthday was September 9, your letter would only arrive the following year.

This is decided when the little wizards are born.

With such intelligence and accuracy in grasping the dynamics of all students, Sainz would rather believe that the Ministry of Magic is using the thousand-year-old castle of Hogwarts to achieve this.

He speculated that the moment the young wizards stepped into Hogwarts, they formed some kind of connection or contract with this thousand-year-old castle, and the Ministry of Magic used this contract to conduct remote monitoring.

This may not have been an oversight at first, but rather was to ensure the safety of young wizards and the wizarding world.

Perhaps it was more to find out whether there were any magical fluctuations around the little wizard, whether his own or others.

What exactly happened and whether it was really as he guessed, Sainz is not a historian and has no interest in digging deeper.

The current situation is that young wizards will receive warnings if they perform magic outside of school, and in serious cases they will be in great trouble.

Remember how Sainz handled music company affairs in the past?

He used "Force Hypnosis" at the time.

That was actually magic, but it was before school.

It is a bit troublesome to handle Muggle-related matters so conveniently nowadays.

His consideration of the trace was also for this reason.

Anyone familiar with Harry Potter knows that there is a big loophole in The Trace.

It is not accurate.

He couldn't specifically detect whether the little wizard himself was using magic.

As long as they were in a place full of adult wizards, such as Diagon Alley or Hogsmeade, even if a young wizard cast a spell, the Ministry of Magic would not be able to detect it.

But where Sainz is going is the Muggle world, where there is a ghost adult wizard.

But, there is a way!

In fact, there is still a loophole in the trace thread.

He cannot detect the magic inherent in magic items.

That is, when a magic is not cast by a person - that is, a little wizard - but by a magic item itself, it is undetectable.

Of course, this is also a conclusion drawn based on "Harry Potter". Whether it is true or not remains to be verified.

It’s actually very easy to verify.

Just take a magic item into the Muggle world for a while and you'll find out.

The Ministry of Magic's Muggle Affairs Department has to deal with many incidents of magical items harming Muggles every year, which indirectly proves that the Ministry of Magic does not have the ability to detect magical items in advance.

If the magical items scattered in the Muggle world could be detected in advance, we would just need to send people to recover them all, and there would be no chance of injuries.

There is no doubt about this.

The key is whether the Ministry of Magic will detect when a magical item is carried by a young wizard.

Two variables, the little wizard, and the magic item are activated.

There were two issues that Sainz considered. One was whether the magic item would be sensed by the trace thread after being activated, and the other was how to get himself out if he was unlucky enough to be detected.

A safe way to verify is to secretly slip the item into the body of a Muggle wizard, and then just follow him around and you will know everything.

"Well, it's not a matter of life and death. I can't bear to use an innocent little wizard like this. I can't do it. I can't do it."

Or just drop it in front of a Muggle, wait for the item to be activated, pretend to pass by, and then take the item back. If someone from the Ministry of Magic pursues the matter, you can say you were doing a good deed?

Are you treating the people in the Ministry of Magic as fools?

Oh, kids are such a hassle!

There's nothing we can do. Let it be. Maybe the music company is running very well and there's no need for any backup measures.

Forget it, because the risk is not worth it.

After much thought, although the possibility of being discovered by using magic items was very small, Saiens still gave up the idea of ​​taking the risk.

He still remembered that there was an important project in his plan: to study the time converter.

All the Time-Turners were collected by the Ministry of Magic. If one was reported to the Ministry for using magic outside of school without permission, and then encountered problems when applying for a Time-Turner, it would be a waste of time.

"Conte, I want to eat fish today."

"Yes, Mr. Autumn."

"Also, Conte, I have another favor to ask of you. Of course, you have the right to refuse. In fact, this request is a bit disadvantageous... Oh, forget it... Forget it, I'm really a little confused."

"Ah, no, Conte is willing to serve you, please let Conte help."

"No, Conte, I suddenly don't want to talk about it, forget it. I want to eat braised fish today."

"Oh, I'll be right there." Conte said a little disappointed.