Kingsley Shacklebolt is deeply trusted by Fudge, the Minister for Magic.
He is a senior Auror of the Ministry of Magic, and secretly he is also a member of the Order of the Phoenix. Yesterday, he suddenly received a notice from Dumbledore, who gave him a task to clean up the trace sensor reports of the Ministry of Magic in the past two days.
Kingsley was still a little confused. He was a little puzzled because Dumbledore gave a very strange order. In his opinion, this order was the same as "Xiao X, you go to so-and-so's office to take out the trash."
However, the members of the Order of the Phoenix have absolute trust in Dumbledore. No matter how unreasonable the orders given by Dumbledore may seem, they will do their best to complete them. So Kingsley actually goes there every day to destroy the trace silk.
Report. There is nothing unusual about this behavior, because to the Ministry of Magic, the trace report after the start of Hogwarts is a lot of useless information. Even if Kingsley does not go, they will regularly send people to clean it up.
There was a huge difference in the Ministry of Magic's attitude toward trace silk reports before and after the start of school at Hogwarts. This was related to the nature of trace silk.
All underage wizards have "trace threads" on their wands. The thread is like a detector that can detect magic fluctuations within a certain range. That is to say, if someone or a magical creature casts magic within a certain range around the underage wizard, it will
It will be detected by the Ministry of Magic. However, due to technical problems, this detection cannot accurately determine who used the magic, but can only determine the type of spell. For example, Harry blew away his aunt, and she could still be sensed without using a wand.
The levitation spell used by Dobby was also placed on Harry's head.
Because from the perspective of the Ministry of Magic, the thing is like this: No. 4 Privet Drive detects magical fluctuations in the levitating spell. The only wizard at No. 4 Privet Drive is Harry Potter, who uses Harry Potter outside the school.
Magic, give me a warning.
Because it was his first offense and it was a harmless levitation spell, the Ministry of Magic didn't bother to verify it and just gave him a warning. If Harry was more familiar with the process and appealed directly to the Ministry of Magic, then this warning could 100% be revoked.
, because the Ministry of Magic will use a flashback spell on Harry's wand, so they will immediately discover that Harry is not casting spells outside of school.
This warning did not alarm Dumbledore - Dumbledore must have known about it, but he did not take care of it. After all, the nature was really not serious, just like running a red light and being stopped by the traffic police for criticism and education. Harry was later convicted of using
After casting the Patronus Curse, Dumbledore immediately took action to stand up for Harry.
Here's the problem, traces are a range detection, so what if there are many wizards living within the detection range? The Ministry of Magic's strategy is "cool", and the Ministry of Magic directly ignores trace reports from wizard settlements.
Because the number of Muggles in wizarding places like Godric's Hollow and the Burrow is very small, even if something goes wrong, adult wizards can handle it in time, so the Ministry of Magic basically does not manage it there.
After school started, all the little wizards went to Hogwarts, and the location where Trace reported was completely out of order, so the Ministry of Magic ignored it. In theory, they should carefully check every report to identify non-Hogwarts reports.
, but the people at the Ministry of Magic are really too lazy to do this thankless task - there has never been any trouble before, so they just deal with it to save trouble. Abuse of magic usually only occurs during summer vacation and Christmas.
, Now that Hogwarts has started school, the little wizard is abusing magic? It doesn’t exist.
As for the trace report, they just burned it.
Neither Harry nor Ron knew about the Ministry of Magic's operations. They were confused at this time: Why hasn't the warning letter from the Ministry of Magic come yet?
"It's quite a distance from London to here. Maybe the owl is already on the way, it just takes time." Ron said very uncertainly, but his guess was rejected by Harry: the elf named Dobby was in Vernon.
My uncle's family used magic, but I immediately received a warning letter.
Even with Harry's personal explanation, Ron couldn't figure it out. The two of them got out of the car in a daze, and were at a loss for a moment: even if they rushed back to London immediately and wrote to Dumbledore, it would still be three hours later.
It happened. By that time, Professor Lockhart had probably "turned into spring mud to protect the flowers."
"Ron, look!" Harry exclaimed, pointing to the sky. Ron looked along his fingertips and saw the funnel-shaped vortex of clouds in the sky.
As the clouds rotated, they gradually became tinged with red light, and there was a faint suffocating pressure inside. Harry also felt a wave of heat coming towards his face.
"It's Professor Lockhart!" The two hurriedly ran towards the manor, and then saw a scene they would never forget in their lives:
Sea of fire.
The entire manor was burning. The fire devoured everything: lawns, mansions, shrubs, fences... The water in the European-style fountain was evaporated, and the back hill that was originally full of fruit trees was also swallowed up by the sweeping fire, only slightly closer.
, you can feel the hair curling slightly, and there is a smell of barbecue.
The air was distorted by the high temperature, and the smoke and dust in the sky shot straight into the sky, and then together with the clouds, formed a new smoke and dust tornado
In the smoke and dust, Harry and Ron could vaguely see two figures standing on the roof of the mansion. A "thin" fire dragon branched out from one arm, which was connected with the sea of fire. When her arm turned, the sea of fire also followed.
She moved slowly. Next to her, there was another person sitting, probably Professor Lockhart.
"Is that Professor Lockhart?" Harry was a little confused. "It doesn't look like him."
"It's so powerful!" Ron was shocked beyond measure. "This spell is so powerful, it's like a natural disaster! Have you seen it, Harry! I will learn this spell with Professor Lockhart in the future, and we will do it together."
Learn to cast such a powerful spell together!"
Harry looked at this devastating power, swallowed his saliva, and nodded: Is this the professor? Is this the legendary adventurer! Can Professor Dumbledore cast such a terrifying spell?
At this time, Tom, who had used his ultimate move, had already revealed his prototype.
The ultimate move just now was so fierce that it drained away the magic power in [Senior]'s magic core, and also drained his own magic power, leaving him without even the magic power to maintain Lockhart's form.
What's worse is that he feels like he is about to be smoked into dried meat. The surrounding temperature is extremely high, and even the air is baked to a scorching level. Every time Tom takes a breath, he can feel the hot feedback coming from his respiratory tract.
He did not dare to delay any longer, so he controlled [Senior Sister] and completely used that powerful spell: