Connor's Hogwarts

Chapter 60 Back to School
"Hi, Connor!"

"Hey Roger, how was your holiday?"

"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 one step ahead of Connor, and the two were packing up their things and sharing fun stories about the holiday together.

Roger said that because the Ministry of Magic does 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's okay to use magic at home, because Roger's mother is a witch, and Roger will not be caught by the Ministry of Magic if he uses magic at home.

Connor knew a little about the fact that the Ministry of Magic could detect underage wizards casting spells, because Flora had worked for the Ministry.

"Zongsi" - something that only minor wizards have, a bit like insect pheromones, which can be detected by magical means.

The ancient wizards took advantage of this feature to invent the magic that can detect traces, and used it to find children with magical aptitude.

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 is used in modern times to prevent underage wizards from using magic outside of school, so it is also called the underage magic detection spell.

But this magic doesn't work very well sometimes, 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. The Ministry of Magic naturally has its own set of methods. Since no one has detected the magic power in such a large area in the UK, we should narrow the detection range.

For all the freshmen admitted to Hogwarts, during the enrollment period, the Ministry of Magic's Department of Prohibition of Misuse of Magic will spend a month marking the home addresses of these young wizards and focusing on observation.

And because sometimes wizards don't have to use magic to cause unnatural phenomena, and the magic power is mobilized slightly, and the response of the trace detection spell is not obvious.

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

The Prohibition of Misuse of Magic Division in the Ministry of Magic has a map, and it is this map that has been cast with the Magic Reaction Test Charm and the Underage Magic Test Charm.

The home locations of all underage wizards (an important marker for Muggle families) are marked on the map.

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

In this way, the abuse of magic by underage wizards can be prevented to a large extent, and it can also be detected whether adult wizards abuse magic in front of Muggles, killing two birds with one stone.

But this method also has disadvantages.

If an adult wizard casts magic at the 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 it is caused by a minor wizard casting a spell.

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

It was because of knowing this that Connor used magic casually at home.As long as you don't use the Avada curse, usually no one will come to trouble you.

"So that's it, then it's okay for me to practice magic at home?" After hearing Connor's explanation, Roger was a little excited. After all, children still like to play, and Roger can't use magic during the holidays.

"That's right, the Ministry of Magic won't trouble you for such a trivial matter."

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

"???"

Connor froze his hand as he was about to take a book out of his pocket for entertainment, and he said in an unbelievable tone:
"It's 1990! Does anyone still play Wizard Chess? Is my Pokemon not fun anymore? Or is it because you, Roger, are tired of playing cards and want to throw them away?"

"Huh?" Roger said in a daze, "This... sorcerer and wizard chess is quite fun."

"Um, oh! I see, you haven't seen wizard chess before." Connor remembered that Roger was a wizard family.

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

...Thinking about it this way, Wizard Chess is pretty pitiful, almost being squeezed out of the market by monster cards.

"Come and play, let me tell you that these chess pieces are super funny, if they know that you are the inventor of the monster card, they will definitely lose their temper..."

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

Upon hearing this, the knight 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 puzzled voice: "Huh?"

"It's useless for you to deny it! Our creator told us that at the time of 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 creators are really narrow-minded, but these chess pieces are really interesting. This intelligence is probably the level that Connor's Pokemon 4.0 needs to reach.

This is great. There are all research directions. I haven't found out before. There are still things worth learning about these wizard chess. Sure enough, people in the world should not be underestimated.

To the wizard chess maker in the distance, your chess pieces are very good, but in the next second, your technology will be mine.

"It seems interesting, let's take a look at the next game?" Connor said.

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

Probably the wizards saw that Muggle chess was fun, so they copied it, and they didn’t bother to change the gameplay, tsk tsk, it’s really unimaginative, I still know how to play chess, watch me abuse you little brat.

It's a pity that Connor lost the game, because the white knight revealed Connor's identity as the "Monster King" as soon as he arrived on the chessboard, and the chess pieces quit after hearing this.

Connor ordered the soldiers to move forward, but the soldier threw the shield and lay down before crawling.

The other chess pieces followed suit. The white knight cut off his horse's leg, the chariot removed the wheels, and the king was even more ruthless. He took off his clothes, raised his crown and threw it to the opposite side. The white chess surrendered without a fight.

The black chess on the opposite side didn't care about the white chess, but yelled at Connor with the same enemy, and attacked Connor with vicious words and magic. This group of wizard chess has no self-consciousness of the chess pieces.

In the end, Connor smashed the chess piece with a hammer amidst Roger's ups and downs of laughter, and calmly sat back at the table to read a book.

Connor decided to take back what he said earlier, the wizard chess maker is not pitiful at all, these chess pieces are meaningless at all.

"Hahahahahahahahahahaha, sorry, Connor, I really didn't know they would do this, hahahahahahahahaha, sorry, I didn't laugh hahaha..." Roger rubbed his belly convulsed from laughing, and put the wreckage of the chess piece Swipe into the box and the pieces will restore themselves after a while.

"It's okay, I'm not angry at all, but I'm happy to find a research material." Connor said with a smile.

"Then do you want to play monster cards?" Roger asked with an unstoppable smile after packing up the chess pieces.

"Forget it, I'm not interested. I've been thinking about upgrading the monster card recently. It's probably going to be a major update."

"!!! Hey! Really! Are you going to issue a gold card!"

"It's not just gold cards, 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, squinted his eyes with a smile, and his tone Gentle and authentic.

"Yeah... yeah, then you go for it, I'll go play with Fred and the others..." Looking at Connor's smile, the soles of his feet felt inexplicably cold, sensing that something was wrong with the atmosphere, Roger decided to run away.

"Oh, are you going to find them? Then tell me something by the way. Tonight... at nine o'clock, meet at the base for a meeting. I need your help with something." Of course they refer to the Gang of Four, and the base is Room of Requirement.

"Okay, see you tonight."

"see you tonight."

(End of this chapter)