After tasting the candy with Hermione's family, they had dinner together. After that, Hermione took Maple to the guest room prepared for him. However, instead of going back to her room, Hermione took a large pile of books with her and discussed her homework with Maple.

It seems that after living with Hermione, even if Maple doesn't read books by herself, Hermione will take her to study the course.

"If only I could practice spells at home, I wonder if my magic level will drop after a vacation?" After a few hours of talking to Maple about studying, Hermione was still unsatisfied. Although she hadn't received her next year's book list yet, Hermione had spent a few days reviewing all of her first-year knowledge before buying a more advanced textbook from the Blotted Bookstore by mail order. Looking at the new spells in the book, but they could only be deduced in their minds, and they could not be practiced with a wand, it undoubtedly made Hermione very uncomfortable. Thinking about it, Hermione began to worry inexplicably about the spell she had mastered before.

"Okay, let's talk about this tomorrow, it's late. Hermione, I don't think you're old enough to stay up late, it's time to go to bed! Maple said.

"Well, good night, Maple!"

"Good night, Hermione!"

It could be seen that Hermione was in high spirits tonight, and she was in a good mood when she left. Although you can read books to pass the time before, books can't represent bosom friends after all.

The next day, the Granger couple checked each other's teeth and found that nothing was wrong, but they didn't notice any change after just one visit, so they went to work taking a small portion of each of the candies and preparing to test their ingredients in the lab.

After the Granger couple left, Hermione came back to find Maple, who gave her a gift.

"What are you giving me my wand for? I already have one of my own! Hermione was a little puzzled.

"It's an adult's wand, that is, there's no trace on it!" Maple said.

"Traces?" Hermione always had a strong desire to explore what she didn't know.

"You don't expect a note from the school to make the students obedient, do you?" "I've inquired that the Ministry of Magic is said to use traces to monitor underage wizards for magic, and that when a wizard turns seventeen, the trace disappears. ”

"But we haven't had any contact with the Ministry of Magic at all, how did the filament get on us, I think it's probably on our wand!"

"Really, it would be great if that was the case, I could use it to practice magic!" Hermione said happily, but then frowned again and asked, "How did you get this wand?" ”

"I don't want to lie to you, so I'll ask that question later, okay?" Maple said.

"Does that have to do with the trouble you're in, too?" Hermione asked.

"Yes."

This wand was obtained by Maple from the three dark wizards who attacked him for the first time, and they belonged to Maple who had caught up in trouble halfway through the process of solving the trouble, but hit the muzzle of the gun, so it can only be said that it can be counted, anyway, it was all trouble that happened in Tumbledown Alley.

"Are you really sure the trace is on the wand?" Hermione was still a little skeptical.

"Clean up!" Seeing that Hermione still didn't believe her thoughts, Maple immediately picked up the wand without a trace and directly recited a cleansing charm.

"You're crazy, what if the Ministry of Magic finds out and fires you?" Hermione was taken aback by Maple and lectured angrily.

"Don't worry, there are so many underage wizards, the school just sent a notice but didn't tell us about the existence of the traces, I think there will always be a little wizard who can't help but release a spell, so the first time is probably a warning, and it won't be expelled directly." Maple is not worried.

"Then you can't either" Hermione's mouth closed as an owl flew into her home.

"Maple, what's going on?" Hermione was stunned at first, then turned into an angry goose and shouted at Maple.

Because the letter on the owl was actually for her, she opened the letter and saw that it read—

Miss Granger: We've been told that you've used a cleanup spell at your lodgings at 9:12 tonight.

You know that underage wizards are not allowed to use magic outside of school, and if you do this, you may be expelled from the school. (Act on the Reasonable Restraint of Underage Wizards, 1875, paragraph 3)

Also keep in mind that under Section 13 of the International Federation of Wizarding and Wizarding Secrecy Act, any magical activity that may attract the attention of non-members of the wizarding world (Muggles) is a serious offense.

Have a great summer!

The Mafalda Hopkirk Ministry of Magic prohibits the misuse of the Department of Magic

"It's too much, they didn't come to check it, so they made such a hasty judgment, this is dereliction of duty!" Maple said angrily, and then saw Hermione's Charizard-like gaze, and he immediately withered again.

When Hermione was the little witch with no toe in her eyes, Maple didn't care about her anger at all, but after her personality changed, for some reason, when she was angry with herself again, Maple unconsciously became a little shorter.

"Wait, why didn't you get the warning letter?" Hermione was angry for a while, and only noticed this when she calmed down.

"I guess there's no trace on my wand, my wand is an ancient work of the Ollivanders hundreds of years ago!" "There was probably no such thing as a trace at that time!" ”

"But even though I've been warned, it's worth knowing the flaws of the traces." Seeing Hermione's displeased eyes, Maple immediately said again, "Didn't I owe you a condition before?" I will now add one more condition, as long as it is not a violation of the moral law, or something that disgraces my noble personality by letting me get under someone's crotch, no matter what you ask me to do, whatever I can, I will be on call, how about it? ”

"One is too little, two!"

"Deal!" Maple said, feeling something was wrong. I inexplicably owe Hermione three conditions, and this plot is a little inexplicably familiar! But why did I feel like I was dizzy just now, and I agreed so happily!

Now that she had a total of three chances to pinch Maple, Hermione stopped being angry for a moment, and then began to think about the flaws of the traces that Maple said: "The traces can detect whether underage wizards have cast spells, but they can't detect spellcasters. You were the one who cast the magic, but because there was no trace of you on you, the Ministry of Magic decided that I did it. ”

"Obviously, the trace has a certain range, as long as you put your wand here, we can leave the monitoring range of the trace on it, and we can cast spells as we please." Maple also said.

"You still think the trace is on the wand, so what if it's wrong?"

"What if," Maple thought to herself, if she guessed wrong, Hermione would have to take the blame for her mistake again. I've already warned once, so the next time I do it again, I'll be expelled! Thinking of such serious consequences, Maple was not sure.

"But I really don't have any traces on me, so how can I explain it?" Maple had done magic many times outside of school before, but nothing had happened.

That's why Maple was so sure the trace was on the wand. However, he seemed to have forgotten a detail of the world, which was that in the seventh year, when Moody and the others took Harry away from their home, they did not let Harry change into an adult's wand to avoid the Ministry of Magic's tracking. If this method worked, Mad-Eye Moody couldn't have imagined it.

"What is the difference between us other than the wand?" Hermione pondered, then her eyes lit up, "The Silent One! ”

In the same example, Dumbledore's sister Ariana was also an obscurity, not a squib, but no one knew about her death, and at that time the International Secrecy Law had already been introduced, and Ariana could be considered a victim of the Secrecy Law.

The wizarding world obviously does not have a satellite signal that can cover a country, and it is too much effort to release a magical magnetic field that envelops the entire country.

But after every wizard shows his magical talent for the first time, Hogwarts always has a way of detecting it, and the Ministry of Magic should be too. It is impossible for Hogwarts as a school to know about the addition of a new account to the wizarding world, but not to the Ministry of Magic, an official body.

This is probably the first magic fluctuation released after the wizard's magic awakening, which is a bit special, it is easy to detect and track, and after tracking the magic signal, there will be a special Ministry of Magic personnel to register the wizard's release trace tracking spell.

Muggle-born wizards can cast traces without the consent of the other party, but when a member of a wizarding family shows a talent for magic, the Ministry of Magic personnel will need the cooperation of the other party's parents when they come to the door.

Even a wizard of Moody's or even Dumbledore's level couldn't remove the trace from Harry's body, but most of the ministry's wrecks couldn't compete with Dumbledore, so it could only be that the magic itself was powerful.

Then if this magic is applied when the wizard's magic is very weak, and the wizard has not yet touched the wand, it is reasonable. And the sooner this spell is cast, the more ingrained it will become, and it will not be able to be lifted.

Just like poison, the toxin will become more and more ingrained over time, and even the original antidote cannot be removed.

Muggle-born wizards are dangerous because the wizarding family is guarded by their parents, and the Ministry of Magic does not dare to touch the traces. But if a Muggle-born wizard is unsupervised, if the Ministry of Magic personnel are vicious and manipulate the traces, the Muggle wizard will not be able to resist at all.

The trace is obviously a product of the International Secrecy Law coming into effect, but it is not a dead knot that cannot be broken like the Permanent Paste Charm, so there is no magic that a wizard of Dumbledore's level can do, and this is the only explanation.

In the wizarding world, seventeen years old is probably a major metamorphosis of wizarding magic. If the trace cannot directly monitor the wizard's age, it is probably because the magic of the wizard's body changes at the moment of adulthood and echoes the mechanism of the trace, so let the trace be released.

However, before the age of seventeen, for some special reason, the magic undergoes a strong upheaval, which can also cause the trace to disappear or change, becoming undetectable.

The Silent One is probably one of them!

Maple's trace was gone, and no one came to give him a second time.

I don't know if it's because the trace is cast once, it can't be used a second time, or if the trace is a trigger mechanism.

After the Ministry of Magic applied the trace, it recorded the number of the trace, the magic fluctuation when the trace was triggered, and the owner of the trace. According to this list, wizards over the age of eleven are monitored by the Ministry of Magic, and once the Ministry of Magic receives the number of a triggered trace, it will know that a wizard has cast a spell.

But the trace has never been triggered, and the Ministry of Magic will only think that the other party has not violated the rules, but does not know that the other party's trace has disappeared.

Maybe the traces don't even have the same Internet IP-like identification function, all the traces are the same, and the Ministry of Magic can only find out where an underage wizard has performed magic and violated the rules through the signal response of the traces. The location of the Muggle-born wizard registered by the Ministry of Magic is then used to determine who the violating wizard is.

And as soon as the underage wizard leaves the residence during the holidays and becomes a floating population, the Ministry of Magic immediately becomes blind and deaf, and then it is impossible to determine who the wizard is in the place where the trace signal source is.

Harry flared up his aunt at the age of thirteen, and then cast a fluorescent charm a few blocks away from home, but instead of finding him in the first place, the Ministry of Magic got on the Knight's bus. To be exact, he was first spotted by Sirius Black, and if it weren't for Blake's lack of ill will towards him, he would have been killed before he could get on the Knight's bus.