The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Kingsley Shacklebolt is trusted by Fudge, the Minister for Magic.

He is a senior Auror of the Ministry of Magic, and secretly a member of the Order of the Phoenix. Yesterday, he suddenly received a notice from Dumbledore, who gave him a task to clean up the trace sensor reports of the Ministry of Magic in the past two days.

Kingsley was still a little confused. He was a little puzzled because Dumbledore gave a very strange order. This order seemed to him the same as "Little X, you go to so-and-so's office to take out the trash."

However, the members of the Order of the Phoenix have absolute trust in Dumbledore, and they will do their best to complete the orders given by Dumbledore, no matter how unreasonable they may seem. So Kingsley really went there every day to destroy the trace silk reports. There is nothing unusual about this behavior, because to the Ministry of Magic, the trace report after the start of Hogwarts is a lot of useless information. Even if Kingsley does not go, they will regularly send people to clean it up.

There was a huge difference in the Ministry of Magic's attitude towards trace silk reports before and after the start of school at Hogwarts. This was related to the nature of trace silk.

All underage wizards have "trace threads" on their wands, which are like detectors that can detect magic fluctuations within a certain range. In other words, if someone or a magical creature casts magic within a certain range of an underage wizard, it will be monitored by the Ministry of Magic. However, due to technical problems, this test cannot accurately determine who used the magic. It can only determine the type of spell. For example, when Harry blew away his aunt, he did not use a wand, but it was also perceived that the levitation spell used by Dobby was also placed on Harry's head.

Because from the perspective of the Ministry of Magic, the thing is this: No. 4 Privet Drive detects magical fluctuations in the levitation spell. The only wizard at No. 4 Privet Drive is Harry Potter, so Harry Potter uses it outside the school. Magic, a warning.

Because it was his first offense and it was a harmless levitation spell, the Ministry of Magic didn't bother to verify it and just gave him a warning. If Harry was more familiar with the process and appealed directly to the Ministry of Magic, then this warning could 100% be revoked, because the Ministry of Magic would use a flashback spell on Harry's wand, so they would immediately find out that Harry was not outside the school. Cast a spell.

This warning did not alarm Dumbledore - Dumbledore must have known about it, but he did not take care of it. After all, it was not serious in nature, just like being stopped by the traffic police for running a red light and criticizing him. Later, after Harry was convicted of using the Patronus Charm, Dumbledore immediately took action to stand up for Harry.

The problem is here, trace silk is a range detection, so what if there are many wizards settled within the detection range? The Ministry of Magic's strategy is to "salt it cold". The Ministry of Magic directly ignores the trace reports coming from the wizarding settlements. Because there are very few Muggles in wizarding places like Godric's Hollow and the Burrow, even if something goes wrong, adult wizards can handle it in time, so the Ministry of Magic basically doesn't manage it there.

When school started, all the little wizards went to Hogwarts. The location reported by Trace was completely out of order, so the Ministry of Magic paid no attention to it. Theoretically, they should carefully check every report and screen out non-Hogwarts reports, but those at the Ministry of Magic are really too lazy to do this thankless task - there has never been any trouble before, so to save trouble, just report everything Handled. Abuse of magic usually only occurs during summer vacation and Christmas. Now that Hogwarts has started school, the little wizard is abusing magic? nonexistent.

As for the trace report, they burned it.

Neither Harry nor Ron knew about the Ministry of Magic's operations. They were confused at this time: Why hasn't the warning letter from the Ministry of Magic come yet?

"It's a long way from London to here. Maybe the owl is already on the way. It just takes time." Ron said very uncertainly, but his guess was rejected by Harry: the elf named Dobby was in Vernon. My uncle's family used magic, but I immediately received a warning letter.

Even Ron couldn't figure it out even after Harry showed up to explain it. The two of them got out of the car in a daze, and were at a loss for a moment: even if they rushed back to London immediately to write a letter to Dumbledore, it would be three hours later, and by that time Professor Lockhart would have "changed". Making spring mud will protect the flowers even more."

"Ron, look!" Harry exclaimed, pointing to the sky. Ron looked along his fingertips and saw the funnel-shaped vortex of clouds in the sky.

As the clouds rotated, they gradually became tinged with red light, and there was a faint suffocating pressure inside. Harry also felt a wave of heat rushing towards his face.

"It's Professor Lockhart!" The two hurriedly ran towards the manor, and then saw a scene they would never forget in their lives:

Sea of ​​fire.

The entire estate was burning. The fire devoured everything: lawns, mansions, shrubs, fences... The water in the European-style fountains was evaporated, and the back hill that was originally full of fruit trees was also swallowed up by the fire. Just get closer and you can feel the hair. It is curled up slightly, and there is a smell of barbecue.

The air was distorted by the high temperature, and the smoke and dust in the sky shot straight into the sky, and then together with the clouds, formed a new smoke and dust tornado.

In the smoke and dust, Harry and Ron could vaguely see two figures standing on the roof of the mansion. A "thin" fire dragon branched out from one arm, which was connected with the sea of ​​fire. When her arm turned, the sea of ​​fire also followed. It moves slowly. Next to her, there was another person sitting, probably Professor Lockhart.

"Is that Professor Lockhart?" Harry was a little confused. "It doesn't look like him."

"It's so powerful!" Ron was shocked beyond measure. "This spell is really powerful. It's like a natural disaster! Did you see it, Harry! I will learn this spell with Professor Lockhart in the future. Let's do it together." Learn and cast such a powerful spell together!”

Harry looked at this devastating power, swallowed, nodded, and thought in his mind: Is this the professor? Is this the legendary adventurer! Can Professor Dumbledore cast such a terrifying spell?

At this time, Tom, who had used his ultimate move, had already revealed his prototype.

The ultimate move just now was so fierce that it drained away the magic power in [Senior]'s magic core, and also drained his own magic power, leaving him without even the magic power to maintain Lockhart's form.

To make matters worse, he felt like he was about to be smoked into jerky. The surrounding temperature was extremely high, even the air was baked to a scorching level. Every time Tom took a breath, he could feel the hot feedback coming from his respiratory tract.

He did not dare to delay any longer, so he controlled [Senior Sister] and completely used that powerful spell:

"Vulcan opens the way——"