Hogwarts: Voldemort, don't stop me from studying

Chapter 46 Notice prohibiting the use of magic

The house-elf looked at him with eyes as clear as a child's.

"Is Vid Grey sad?"

"Uh..." Wade was stunned for a moment, then sighed, turning the magic bean in his hand and said, "I'm not really sad, am I? I just suddenly realized that my thoughts were a little too..."

dark.

He swallowed the word and said, "--Should I say it's paranoia? I used very bad thoughts to speculate about a professor who was kind to me..."

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

“—Zoe?”

"Professor Murray is a good man, but Weed Grey was 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 his students and was also sent to Azkaban. There was also a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor who took advantage of his students' trust to invite him to a party, and then contacted dark wizards to kidnap students and demand ransom."

Wade laughed: "He's in Azkaban too?"

Zoe shook her head: "An errant spell made his wand explode and he died."

"They're all Defense Against the Dark Arts professors... this position is really weird." Wade complained.

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

Vader sighed, "I will."

……

When he woke up in the morning, Wade waved his wand and checked the time.

Golden words appeared: [07:00am].

Today was Friday, they had no classes in the morning, and most students would not get up early. When Wade walked through the common room, there were only two fifth-year students sitting in front of the fireplace reading.

——Poor senior high school student.

Wade felt sympathetic.

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

Wade will leave school by train tomorrow. He decided to go to the library after breakfast and borrow as many books as possible so that he won't waste his time when he gets home.

After spending a morning in the library, when Wade returned to the hall, he found Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick there, busy setting up Christmas decorations, and he immediately went forward to help.

"Ah, Weider, thank you," said Professor Flitwick cheerfully. "We'll have to hang all those ribbons on the wall."

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

Professor McGonagall used her wand to gently touch the ice crystals hanging from the branches, turning some of them into sparkling little animals or bells. The students in the auditorium were amazed by her effortless Transfiguration. More students came to help, and they gave full play to their creativity. Some transformed into golden stars, some into deer with their heads held high, and some made several sleighs run over the auditorium, showing their excellent magic level, which earned the two professors a lot of points for the school.

Of course, there were also failed transformations. 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, turning his entire face black, causing everyone else to laugh.

Soon, the auditorium was completely renovated. Michael, who came downstairs to eat, said in a dilemma: "You know, Wade, I miss my family very much. But--"

He flicked the branch with his fingers, and the ice hamster hanging on it immediately squeaked.

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

He looked like he really wanted to stay.

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

Michael took it and said, "'Notice prohibiting the use of magic during holidays'? Why should I sign this? I'm a wizard!"

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

Vader 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 considered minors and are prohibited from using magic outside of school;

Second, underage wizards should consciously abide by and uphold the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy. Underage wizards need to know that any magical activity that may attract the attention of non-magical members (Muggles) is a serious violation of the law;

Third, knowingly using magic in front of Muggles is a criminal act and will result in a warning from the Ministry of Magic. In serious cases, the offender will be expelled...】

There are seven or eight more prohibitions at the end, but they all mean one thing - no use of magic and no disclosure of any information about the wizarding world to Muggles.

Wade had read in books about the history of magic that Muggles had been hunting down wizards on a large scale since the 15th century. Although wizards were often more powerful individually, their social structure was completely decentralized, and wizards needed to rely on the Muggle world for everything except transportation, which often exposed their identities.

For more than two hundred years, many wizards were persecuted to death by Muggles. Especially because wizard children cannot control magic, they are easily noticed and then arrested, imprisoned or even burned to death. In order to protect the wizard community, the Statute of Secrecy was established in 1692. It has continued to this day and is still strictly observed. It 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 relations between the two sides, nor do they record the wizards' counterattack and revenge against Muggles.

Nowadays, it is not known whether it is to ease the hatred between Muggles and wizards and avoid exacerbating the conflict, but their textbook "History of Magic" is vague about this period of history, and instead focuses on the deeds of the weirdo Wendelin - a very strange and powerful witch who enjoyed the feeling of being tied to a stake and burned, and deliberately changed into different appearances to let people catch her forty-seven times.

This particular case is used in the History of Magic to prove that the practice of burning witches was completely nonsense, but in fact, many witches were burned at the stake.

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

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

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

"Don't think you can use magic secretly at home." West finally warned: "Underage 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 won't be one of them."

(End of this chapter)