#76 - Traveling Hitter

After several exchanges with visiting neighbors and friends, Anduin also gained some impressions of these wizarding friends. Mr. Lovegood had whimsical ideas but was very innocent and unbelievably straightforward. Mrs. Lovegood was a charms scholar who had also tried to research and develop some spells. →ReadМ

The Diggory family was very honest and behaved like a friendly neighborhood couple.

The Weasley family invited Anduin to visit them before school started. Partly, Molly felt a connection with Anduin, and partly because of the Prewett brothers. Of course, Anduin thought the main reason was that the whole family was greedy.

Mr. Weasley was very interested in him after learning that he was a Muggle-born wizard. He had an extraordinary curiosity about the Muggle world, perhaps because he worked in the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office. His department was mainly responsible for dealing with wizards who misused magic on Muggle objects, but Anduin thought Mr. Weasley was likely to take advantage of his position to test the limits himself.

The pleasant gathering time passed quickly. The guests contentedly bid farewell to the Longbottom family and Anduin. The Longbottoms were also very satisfied with this vacation, their faces full of smiles. The food Anduin made was almost completely devoured, and old Mrs. Longbottom also felt very proud, constantly praising Anduin's good cooking.

After the Longbottoms finished their vacation, they resumed their intense Auror work. Recently, the Death Eaters had gradually begun to become active again. Whether it was torturing and killing Muggles, or ambushing and injuring wizards or Aurors, related cases came one after another, without any sign of stopping, causing the Auror headquarters a great headache.

Anduin didn't understand this very well. The main job of the Aurors was just to patrol various wizarding gathering places, including Diagon Alley, Hogsmeade, etc. There were also patrols around Ottery St. Catchpole, the village where Anduin lived, but there was no corresponding alarm feedback system. If there was a wizard attack, they could only passively wait for rescue, or resist or run away.

Many wizards were attacked, and the Aurors were often one step late. Moreover, their tracking methods were extremely lacking, basically relying on reports or gathering intelligence through visits, etc.

In his spare time, Anduin also discussed the Aurors' work with the Longbottoms. They said that the Ministry of Magic possessed a powerful detection array that could cover the entire United Kingdom, located in the Ministry of Magic's Misuse of Magic Office. Usually, the Aurors were divided into two parts, one part going out on patrol, and the other part staying on standby at headquarters, partly to protect the headquarters, and partly to maintain mobility. However, the array detection had a delay, and it was difficult to pinpoint the specific person. →

For example, in the Longbottom's house, when Anduin cast a spell, the Ministry of Magic could not determine exactly who cast the spell. Therefore, although the entire United Kingdom was covered by detection, many people cast spells every day, and they also had to assign people to monitor traces of underage wizards casting spells.

Only when there was a high-energy reaction, or a surge of Unforgivable Curses in an area, would the mobile force appear. Some Death Eaters' spellcasting intensity when attacking wizards was not high, so the Ministry of Magic would miss it, and then they could only wait for the wizards who escaped or were injured to report to the Ministry of Magic, otherwise the Ministry of Magic would not even know that there had been a fight. Of course, now the Ministry of Magic had increased its monitoring efforts, and Aurors would go to investigate slightly frequent spellcasting.

Moreover, their timely communication speed was not fast. They mainly relied on the advanced application of the Patronus Charm, which could quickly find the corresponding wizard and transmit information. However, many Aurors did not even know this advanced technique, so the more effective method was to Apparate to transmit information. This also led to the fact that the most important thing in leading this war was intelligence, but there were forces within the Ministry of Magic itself that supported the Dark Lord. They would pass Auror intelligence to the Death Eaters, which led to the current Ministry of Magic basically being in a situation where the enemy was in the dark and they were in the light.

So that's why there's the Order of the Phoenix? No wonder so many Aurors have joined the Order of the Phoenix. Faced with such a situation, it is indeed necessary to establish an organization whose actions are not exposed to the Ministry of Magic's view to resist.

But this also could not avoid the problem of the Aurors and the Order of the Phoenix being inefficient. It was like in a feudal society, where cases could only be dealt with and the murderer caught after the fact, even though they possessed so many convenient and efficient supernatural means.

The Death Eaters could use the Dark Mark for some simple communication, and the Dark Lord could also use the Dark Mark to summon or give orders to the Death Eaters, but the Aurors' communication and alert methods were too few.

If all wizards had an alarm device or alarm spell, if they could quickly notify the Auror Office when attacked, the number of attacks would be greatly reduced, and support would be more timely.

At the same time, Anduin also learned that there was a Hit Wizard unit in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. They had higher authority than ordinary Aurors, but they also shouldered more dangerous tasks. Their work was often assigned to the front lines of fighting crime. Some Hit Wizards were also Aurors, but not all Aurors were Hit Wizards. For example, Mad-Eye Moody was the captain of a Hit Wizard squad and also responsible for Auror work.

In Anduin's view, Aurors were like ordinary police, while Hit Wizards were more like armed police.

However, perhaps because these wizards had not experienced much combat in their daily lives, in his opinion, these Aurors' battlefield literacy really needed to be improved. When a battle occurred, they basically rushed up and threw spells without any coordination at all, basically each acting on their own.

At the same time, Anduin also learned about a position called 'Roving Hit Wizard'. No, it wasn't even a proper position. Anyway, there was no such official position in the Ministry of Magic. Their work was somewhat similar to bounty hunters. They didn't have a salary, but after capturing dark wizards or criminal wizards, they could submit them to the Ministry of Magic and earn a bounty. They could even specialize in hunting down criminals with high bounties. The Ministry of Magic would symbolically give these bounty wizards a Roving Hit Wizard certificate.

However, 'Roving Hit Wizards' did not have corresponding official authority. The only useful thing was that they could use this certificate to carry out bounty hunting abroad. Foreign Ministries of Magic also recognized it, and then they could receive bounties from foreign Ministries of Magic. However, if these Roving Hit Wizards violated the laws of the local Ministry of Magic, they could even be arrested. Almost no one did this life-risking business now, but it was very convenient to apply for, and could even be done as a part-time job.

According to Frank, Sirius had applied for this certificate. He used to think it was cool, but he threw the certificate away not long after, and described this profession as only wasting the Ministry of Magic's paper, because even if you weren't a Roving Hit Wizard, you would still get a bounty from the Ministry of Magic after capturing a dark wizard. It was like taking off your pants to fart, superfluous, unless you wanted to enforce the law abroad, otherwise there was no need to attach another layer of official proof.