“Have you heard about this?”
Old Tom raised his eyebrows in surprise: “I thought not many people knew about this… But why are you asking about this?”
“I met a kind-hearted examiner during the exam. He told me about this and suggested that I find a job in this field to earn my first pot of gold…”
Avada answered very calmly, after all, there was nothing to hide. But after hearing these words, Old Tom on the opposite side became uneasy: “The examiner recommended you? Are you capable of setting up an anti-Apparition restriction?!”
“ha!”
Originally, he wanted to keep a low profile, but Old Tom had to give him this opportunity – so he took out the Space Knowledge License issued by the Ministry of Magic from his pocket without hesitation, placed it in front of Old Tom and put it on the table. With a strong effort, she pushed it in front of him.
“Is this… a license to control knowledge?”
The well-informed old Tom recognized at a glance that this thing was probably unusual. Then he carefully picked up the certificate with two fingers and held it in front of him. He softly read the content above: “Space-related control knowledge.” Assessment certificate…good guy, it’s really true!”
“Test subjects: “Space Mechanics”, “Phase Science”, “Applied Space Science”, “Regulations on the Application of Space Magic”… The overall score is… E+?”
“It’s so hidden!”
He stared in admiration and said: “The test questions of the Wizarding Examination Administration are very valuable! Generally speaking, if you reach O in their assessment, you can be called a master in the relevant field. In other words, you are now far from being a master. The distance is only one step away…and you are still so young!”
“If Professor Marchban hears about a genius like you, why shouldn’t he come to see you in person?”
“Haha…that’s not true.”
Old Tom’s compliments made Avada quite comfortable and successfully made him drink an extra glass of cider: “But with this certificate, I do plan to develop in space magic, and I happened to hear about Pure It’s popular in the Blood Family to impose a ban on Apparition… We seem to have gone too far, so what exactly is going on?”
“Oh, by the way, I was surprised…”
Old Tom patted his forehead, and while putting away the drink money he had just received, he pushed back the precious certificate: “Actually, it didn’t take long for this to happen, only in the past two or three months at most…”
“About two months ago, pure-blood families began to place advertisements in newspapers such as the Daily Prophet, hoping to recruit experts in space magic to install anti-Apparition restrictions in their homes. . Subsequently, the number of those advertisements also slowly increased. Some time ago, someone did a statistics and found that just using newspaper advertisements as a source of information, it can be concluded that nearly one-fifth of the pure-blood population in the UK is trying to The conclusion is to install anti-Apparition prohibition.”
“one fifth?!”
Avada was shocked by this data.
“The actual number is probably higher. After all, there are some well-connected families who don’t need to advertise, and some big families that have already installed bans.”
Old Tom slowly wiped the wine glass and explained: “But this is also related to the fact that the number of pure-blood wizards in the UK is relatively rare. You are from a foreign country and you don’t know much about this – the figure of one-fifth looks scary. In fact, if you really do the math, there are dozens of families, and some of them are from the same family…”
“Then how did this phenomenon become popular?” Avada continued to ask.
“Many people have asked this question, and some have even speculated that the pure-blood family has been attacked in retaliation recently because of what happened last year… But on the one hand, those who advertised are almost all middle-aged people outside the Holy Twenty-Eight Families. Small pure-blood families have little to do with the affairs of Hogwarts; on the other hand, most of those pure-blood families downplayed it in interviews, for various reasons: following the fashion, fearing what Dumbledore called ‘the next one’ Voldemort’s, insecure, and simply think that it should be installed with a prohibition like a door lock… and so on.”
“In addition, there have indeed been no rumors of pure-blood wizards having bad things happen to them recently, so these phenomena have not been taken seriously by people, and in the end they have been interpreted as some kind of new fashion… Haha , which is probably the most practical and expensive fashion.”
“So what’s their situation now? Are there many people still advertising?”
“Of course there are many, many… In fact, there are not many purebloods who can solve the problem in the past few months.”
Lao Tang shook his head: “The knowledge of space is strictly controlled, and few people have it, and most of them go to making things like seamless stretch tents. Those small and medium-sized families with limited financial resources have nowhere to hire people. Go. In addition, anti-Apparition prohibition is difficult and expensive, and the price/performance ratio is low…”
“Low value for money?”
“Of course it’s low. If you don’t want people to Apparate all over your home, wouldn’t it be enough to just hide your address, block the owl, and use Apparition when you go home every day? Even in the most chaotic and turbulent mysterious place. In the human era, this method is enough for ordinary people to ensure safety. If it doesn’t work, they can secretly build a safe house with an address that no one knows…”
“I see.”
Avada was enlightened – the residences of wizards were built randomly. Most of them just found random places in the wilderness, put Muggle expulsion spells on them and built houses directly to live in them, or they secretly mixed their own buildings into Muggles. Go to the melon village. Anyway, for a wizard, building a house is just a matter of waving a magic wand, and there is no need to mobilize an army. And in this way, if you don’t take the initiative to reveal your address, it will indeed be difficult to be discovered – the Weasley family’s Burrow is a typical example.
If you had a stronger sense of security, shielded the owl, turned off the fireplace, and used Apparition when you came home, you would almost never be found.
And he also knows that the disembodiment ban is not something that can be arranged casually – although that thing can only shield the mental power of humanoid creatures, it is still a quite large project and requires high professional standards. A short period of time and depending on the area, but at least hundreds of galleons worth of casting materials…
In the entire British wizarding world, there are only three places that are completely intact on the surface, and each place is covered with Apparition prohibitions. One is Hogwarts, the other is Gringotts, and the One is Azkaban – not even the Ministry of Magic plans to put a ban on every place, but only protects a few of the most sensitive locations.
Therefore, for individuals or families, the cost-effectiveness of the Apparition Restriction is indeed too low.
But in this case, it seems even more wrong that this kind of thing suddenly became popular among small and medium-sized pure-blood families…
“Where can I see those ads? Anywhere else but the Daily Prophet?” he finally asked Old Tom.
“Almost all the mainstream media have them. You can go to Diagon Alley and buy a copy and you’ll see it – but the ones in the Daily Prophet are the most comprehensive and the most comprehensive.”
“I understand, thank you.”
Avada nodded her thanks to Old Tom, drank the cider in her hand, stood up, and walked towards Diagon Alley again.
