Chapter 46 Notice prohibiting the use of magic

The house elf looked at him with a child-like clear eye.

"Is Vid Grey sad?"

"Uh--" Vid was stunned, sighed, and turned the magic bean in his hand and said: "It's not sad, right? I just suddenly found that my thoughts were a little too--"

Dark.

He swallowed the word and said: "--Should it be called paranoia? I used very bad thoughts to speculate about a professor who was full of kindness to me..."

"Ved Grey is not wrong!" Zoe suddenly said loudly.

"——Zoe?"

"Professor Murray is a good man, but Weed Grey is right to be vigilant." Zoe nodded vigorously: "Zoe knows a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor who tried to have a bad relationship with a third-year girl and was sent to Azkaban. Zoe also knows a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor who used dark magic on students and was also sent to Azkaban. There is also a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor who took advantage of the students' trust to invite him to a party, and then contacted dark wizards to kidnap students and extort ransom."

Weed laughed: "He is also in Azkaban?"

Zoe shook her head: "The wrong spell made his wand explode and he died."

"It's all Defense Against the Dark Arts professor... This position is really weird." Weed complained.

"The Defense Against the Dark Arts professors change very quickly, and there are many bad people. Quirrell is also bad. Weed Grey must always be vigilant." Zoe said seriously.

Weed sighed: "I will."

...

When he woke up in the morning, Weed waved his wand and looked at the time.

Golden words appeared: [07:00am].

Today is Friday, they don't have classes in the morning, and most students don't get up early. When Wade walked through the common room, there were only two fifth-year students sitting in front of the fireplace reading books.

——Poor senior high school students.

Wade felt sympathetic.

He used his wand to conjure a ball of blue flame and put it in a bottle. With this, he wouldn't be too cold even when he went outdoors.

Tomorrow Wade would take the train to leave school. He decided to go to the library after breakfast and borrow as many books as possible so that he wouldn't waste time when he went home.

After spending a morning in the library, when he returned to the hall, Wade found that Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick were there, busy arranging Christmas decorations, and immediately stepped forward to help.

"Ah, Wade, thank you." Professor Flitwick said happily, "We're going to hang all those ribbons on the wall."

Several people worked with wands, hanging bright ribbons on the wall, twelve towering Christmas trees on both sides, hundreds of candles lined up, coiled around the Christmas tree under the command of Professor Flitwick, and burned quietly. The tip of his wand also sprayed golden bubbles, hanging on the branches.

Professor McGonagall gently tapped the ice crystals hanging from the branches with her wand, turning some of them into shiny little animals or small bells. The students in the hall were amazed by the effortless Transfiguration.

More students came to help, and they gave full play to their creativity. Some turned into golden stars, some turned into deer with their heads held high, and some made several sleighs run over the hall, showing an excellent level of magic, which made the two professors add a lot of points to the college.

Of course, there were also failures in transformation. A Slytherin boy originally just wanted to make a few candles, but he didn't expect the spell to go wrong. The tip of the wand suddenly exploded, and his whole face turned black, causing others to laugh.

Soon, the hall was completely renewed. Michael, who came downstairs to eat, said tangledly: "You know, Wade, I miss my family very much. But--"

He fiddled with the branches with his fingers, and the ice hamster hanging on it immediately squeaked.

"Christmas at Hogwarts seems to be very interesting..."

He looked like he wanted to stay.

"Wade, Michael, you are all here." West, the sixth grade male class leader, strode over and took out two pieces of paper and handed them to them: "Come, sign this."

Michael took it: "Notice prohibiting the use of magic during holidays? Why should I sign this? I am a wizard!"

"Yes - underage wizards." West nodded perfunctorily and urged: "Hurry up, I still have to find Anthony and the others."

Wade looked down at the notice -

[According to the "Law on Reasonable Restraint of Underage Wizards", underage wizards need to pay attention to the following prohibitions during the holidays:

First, Wizards under the age of seventeen are minors and are prohibited from using magic outside of school;

Second, minor wizards should consciously abide by and uphold the International Confederation of Wizards Statute of Secrecy. Minor wizards need to know that any magical activities that may attract the attention of non-magical members (Muggles) are serious violations of the law;

Third, knowingly using magic in front of Muggles is a crime and will be warned by the Ministry of Magic. In serious cases, they will be expelled...】

There are seven or eight prohibitions behind, but they all say one thing - no magic is allowed, and no information about the magic world is allowed to be disclosed to Muggles.

Wade has seen in books about the history of magic that Muggles have been hunting wizards on a large scale since the 15th century. Although wizards are often more powerful individually, their social structure is completely decentralized. Wizards need to rely on the Muggle world for food, clothing, housing and transportation except for "travel", which often exposes their identities.

For more than two hundred years, many wizards were persecuted to death by Muggles. In particular, because wizard children cannot control magic, they easily attract attention and are arrested, imprisoned or even burned to death. In order to protect the wizard community, the Statute of Secrecy was established in 1692 and has continued to this day. It is still strictly observed and is the iron law of the wizarding world.

Of course, wizard books only record the persecution of wizards by Muggles, but do not record the reasons for the sudden deterioration of the relationship between the two sides, nor do they record the counterattack and revenge of wizards against Muggles.

Now, I don’t know whether it is to ease the hatred between Muggles and wizards and avoid intensifying the conflict. Their textbook "History of Magic" is vague about this period of history, and the focus is on the deeds of the weird Wendelin-a very strange and powerful witch who enjoys the feeling of being tied to a stake and burned, and deliberately changes into different appearances to let people catch her forty-seven times.

"History of Magic" uses this special example to prove that the practice of burning witches is completely nonsense. But in fact, many witches were really tied to stakes and burned to death.

Of course, there are actually more ordinary women who were mistakenly burned as witches, or rather, the vast majority of them.

Wade looked at the notice - a complex magic circuit appeared on the seemingly ordinary parchment. Under West's urging, he did not have much time to study it, so he could only pick up a pen and sign his name.

As he signed, Wade felt that something invisible, like a contract, was entangled with him.

"Don't think you can use magic secretly at home." West finally warned: "Minor wizards have traces on them. Once they use magic, they will be discovered by the Ministry of Magic immediately. Every year, there are two or three idiots who receive warning letters from the Ministry of Magic. I hope you will not be one of them."