Connor's Hogwarts

"Hi Connor!"

"Hi Roger, how was your vacation."

"Not bad. Thank you for the rare monster card. It's the best Christmas gift I've ever received!"

In the Ravenclaw dormitory, Roger had already returned before Connor. The two of them were tidying up and sharing interesting things about the vacation.

Roger said that because the Ministry of Magic did not allow underage wizards to cast spells outside of school, he was a little uncomfortable not being able to practice magic during the holidays.

Connor reminded Roger that it was okay to use magic at home, because Roger's mother was a witch, and no one from the Ministry of Magic would catch Roger if he used magic at home.

Regarding the fact that the Ministry of Magic can detect spells cast by underage wizards, Connor knew a little about this because Flora once worked at the Ministry of Magic.

"Tracing silk" - a thing that only minor wizards have on their bodies, which is a bit like insect pheromones and can be detected through magical means.

Ancient wizards took advantage of this characteristic to invent magic that can detect traces to find children with magical talents.

This magic can detect the location of underage wizards within a certain range, and the detection effect will be more obvious when underage wizards use magic.

Then this magic was used in modern times to prevent underage wizards from using magic outside of school, so it was also called the Underage Magic Detection Charm.

But this magic sometimes doesn't work very well, because no one has the ability to use a magic that can detect the "trace" reaction across the UK.

But the methods are all thought up by people, and the Ministry of Magic naturally has its own set of methods. Since no one has detected the magic in such a large range in the UK, then we can narrow the detection range.

For all new students admitted to Hogwarts, during the enrollment period, the Ministry of Magic's Department for the Prohibition of Abuse of Magic will spend a month marking the home addresses of these young wizards for focused observation.

And because sometimes wizards don't necessarily have to use magic to cause unnatural phenomena, and even with a small amount of magic, the Trace Detection Spell's response is not obvious.

So later the Ministry of Magic added magic reaction detection to the trace reaction detection.

The Department of Abuse of Magic in the Ministry of Magic has a map, and it is this map that has been enchanted with the Magic Reaction Detection Charm and the Underage Magic Detection Charm.

The home locations of all minor wizards (key markers for Muggle families) will be marked on the map.

When there is a strong magic reaction in those marked locations and non-wizard gathering places, or when there is a strong trace magic reaction in unmarked locations, the Ministry of Magic will send people to verify the situation.

This can not only prevent underage wizards from abusing magic to a large extent, but also detect whether adult wizards abuse magic in front of Muggles, killing two birds with one stone.

But this method also has drawbacks.

If an adult wizard releases magic at a location marked by a minor wizard, there will also be an obvious reaction on the map, but the Ministry of Magic often cannot tell whether this is caused by a spell cast by a minor wizard.

Therefore, the location of a wizarding family whose parents are wizards produces a magical reaction on the map. As long as the reaction is not strong, the Ministry of Magic generally ignores it.

Just because he knew this, Connor used magic casually at home. As long as you don't use the Avatar Big Melon Curse, usually no one will come to trouble you.

"I see, then it's okay for me to practice magic at home?" Roger was a little excited after hearing Connor's explanation. After all, children still like to play, and not being able to use magic during the holidays was frustrating Roger.

"Yes, the Ministry of Magic will not trouble you over such a trivial matter."

"I understand." Roger nodded, then took out a dark thing from his backpack and said loudly: "Connor! Let's play wizard chess!"

"???"

Connor's hand, which was about to take a book out of his pocket for entertainment, stopped, and he said in an incredible tone:

"It's 1990! Does anyone still play Wizard Chess? Is it because my Pokemon are no longer fun? Or is it that you, Roger, are tired of playing and discarding the cards?"

"Huh?" Roger said in a daze: "This... Wizard Chess is also quite fun."

"Uh, oh! I understand, you haven't seen wizard chess before." Connor remembered that Roger came from a wizard family.

"Yes, this is a Christmas gift from my mother. I didn't know there was such a thing as wizard chess before."

...Thinking about it this way, Wizard Chess is quite pitiful and is about to be squeezed out of the market by Monster Cards.

"Come and play, come and play, I'm telling you, these chess pieces are super funny. If they know that you are the inventor of the Monster Cards, they will definitely lose their temper..."

Roger happily picked up a white knight, held it in his palm, and said to the knight: "Knight, this is the inventor of the monster card, as I told you."

When the knight heard this, he suddenly pointed his spear at Connor and said angrily: "So you were the one who took our land when we were fighting against the Black Country! You despicable villain!"

"???" Connor scratched his head with a question mark on his head and made a confused voice: "Huh?"

"It's useless for you to deny it! Our creator told us that during our decisive battle, our land has been occupied by a monster kingdom! We can only fight on the chessboard forever! All this is thanks to you !" The knight spoke, filled with righteous indignation.

"..." Your creator is really petty, but these chess pieces are really interesting. This level of intelligence is probably what Connor's Pokemon 4.0 needs to reach.

This is great. There are research directions. I have never found out before that these wizard chess games have something worth learning from. As expected, people in the world cannot be underestimated.

To the wizard chess makers from far away, your chess pieces are well made, but the next second, your skills will be mine.

"It seems quite interesting. Let's check it out in the next round?" Connor said.

Connor took the white chess and Roger took the black chess. The wizard chess is played in the same way as chess. The difference is that these wizard chess can talk.

I guess wizards copied Muggle chess because it was fun, and didn't even bother to change the gameplay. Gee, it's really unimaginative. I can still play chess, but look at me torturing you little brat.

Unfortunately, Connor lost this game because the white knight revealed Connor's identity as the "King of Monsters" as soon as it arrived on the chessboard, and the chess pieces stopped playing after hearing this.

Connor ordered the soldier to move forward, but the soldier simply threw his shield, fell forward, and stopped crawling.

The other chess pieces also followed suit. The white knight chopped off the legs of his horse, and took off the wheels of the chariot. The king was even more ruthless. He took off his clothes, raised his crown and threw it to the opposite side. The white chess piece surrendered without a fight.

The black chess on the opposite side didn't care about the white chess. Instead, they shouted at Connor with the same hatred and launched vicious verbal and magical attacks on Connor. This group of wizards had no consciousness of the chess pieces.

In the end, Connor smashed the chess pieces to pieces with a hammer amid Roger's uproarious laughter, and calmly sat back at the table to read.

Connor decided to take back his previous words. The makers of Wizard Chess were not pitiful at all. These chess pieces were not interesting at all.

"Hahahahahahahahahahaha, I'm sorry, Connor, I really didn't know they would be like this, hahahahahahahaha, I'm sorry, I didn't laugh hahaha..." Roger touched his belly that was twitching with laughter, and removed the remains of the chess piece. Sweep them into the box, and the pieces will return to their original form soon.

"It's okay. I'm not angry at all. On the contrary, I'm very happy to have found a research material." Connor said with a smile.

"Do you want to play monster cards?" Roger put away the chess pieces and asked with an unstoppable smile on his face.

"Forget it, I'm not interested anymore. I've been thinking about upgrading the monster cards recently. There will probably be a major version update."

"!!! Hey hey! Is it true! Are you going to give out a gold card?"

"It's not just the gold card, you'll know when the time comes, and I guarantee that after the new version comes out, no one will play this boring wizard chess again." Connor tilted his head and smiled into squinting eyes. Softly.

"Yes... well, then come on, I'll go and play with Fred and the others..." Roger looked at Connor's smile, and the soles of his feet felt cold for no reason. He sensed that something was wrong with the atmosphere, and decided to run away.

"Oh, do you want to go find them? Then give me a message by the way. Let's meet at the base for a meeting at nine o'clock tonight. I have something I need everyone's help with." Of course they are referring to the Gang of Four, and the base is Room of Requirement.

"Okay, got it, see you tonight."

"see you tonight."