The clearest explanation that the Harry Potter series gives traces is probably on page 368 of Harry Potter and Halfblood Prince. It came from the heart of Morphin Gant. Sitting, danking, alone, at his rotten family home, he was visited by 16-year-old Voldemort. Morphin’s memory turns black – we find that Voldemort took his wand and surprised him before using it to kill the riddle.
Harry asks the natural question: Voldemort was not yet 17, so why didn’t the Ministry say he used magic outside of school?
“They can detect magic, but they are not perpetrators,” says Dumbledore. Then, immediately: “They rely on witches and wizard parents to force the obedience of their offspring within their walls.”
On the surface, it’s simple. Traces cover the muggle world, but they don’t make the home magical. Except that it’s not that simple. From the order of Phoenix, when Order visited Harry at No. 4, we know that Privet Drive is definitely the Muggle home. Tonks uses all sorts of spells to pack Harry’s bags and clean the room, but Harry definitely loves that the ministry would lock him up , we don’t hear any peeps from ministries about the magic of minors.
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I know that just because Dobby dropped the pudding on Chamber of Secrets, it doesn’t mean that Harry wasn’t actually doing magic doesn’t detect it like the traces come from Harry. Previously, Trace treated magic outside of school near Harry as coming from Harry. But when Tonks is there, suddenly, it’s not.
How do you adjust the two scenes? The answer includes proximity. Number 4, Privet Drive is not a magical house, so traces should apply to it, but not when there are wizards of the era in the house.
I’ll break it
Here’s how the tracing system works as much as I can.
Somewhere in the province there is a gimmick that detects all the magic around minor wizards. It’s a lot of processing power, but magic can probably handle it. You should tell me you detect magic near a 13-year-old wizard.
This is where it gets interesting. From the scene above, we know that if the magic comes within a wizard’s household or comes from one nearby witch or wizard, the traces will not detect it. We also know from Dumbledore that the traces cannot detect the perpetrator. Therefore, traces are attracted to the surface around the age of 13 and take action. Activate a kind of proximity sensor and scan the area around the age of 13 to determine if there is a wizard nearby or if the child is at the wizard’s house.
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If either is true, nothing will happen. The machine throws out the blip and just moves. It can all happen instantly: levitation charms are detected, checked, lift nearby parents box, no violation, who is next? But if neither is true, then that’s when there’s a problem – and when the machine prints characters containing relevant information, it sends it to Mafalda Hopkirk’s desk for signature.
Importantly, this device appears to be a black box. Ministry officials are anonymous, whether they cannot view or view data in real time. Otherwise, it would mean that the ministries could always track all the wizards everywhere, but they couldn’t reveal. Also, the trace appears to be tracking the wand, not the actual body. That’s why 16-year-old Voldemort was able to use his morphin wand to kill the riddles without Trace realizing it. This is a two-stage process that detects magic and scans alternative perpetrators. Either because of the trace design or foresightful law, the machine cannot access the internal work of the machine, but the machine cannot access the internal work of the machine. Spit them out.
Imagine it being a warm summer night in 1995. You are sitting in the ministry monitoring this black box magic detector. Suddenly, it shatters and growls before spitting out the letters. , we received the intelligence that you performed Patronas charm in 23 minutes after the nine times…”
All you have to do is bring a letter to Mafalda for signature and some light editing. You can’t dig into surveillance records or scan the area yourself to see who is where. All actions have already occurred. The machine sensed the magic. It activated that scanner: there are no wizard households, no other magical wizards casting spells nearby. Harry Potter was the only person in the area. He must have been.
Certainly, it is not the most elegant system. They should definitely come up with something better. But in a world where ministers appoint school disciplinary action, it is almost a par for the course.
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