[ SECRET POST #5504 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5504 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

Re: Well.

[(Anonymous)]

Tracking underage magic when you have an entire bureaucracy of magic users isn't really a mystery. It's magic.

Only Dumbledore has a pensive, presumably a raee magical artefact, and it's located in Hogwarts. Harry doesn't know it exists until Book 6, and has no access to it for most of Book 7.

The last one... I don't know. Hogwarts is a fortress and is led by the most powerful wizard in several generations. I guess they thought it would be safer? At first from Sirius Black, and then later Voldemort.

Re: Well.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Tracking underage magic when you have an entire bureaucracy of magic users isn't really a mystery. It's magic.
But what kind of magic? How can it distinguish between adults and children, if it can't distinguish between elf magic and wizard magic? Do they put it on every house once they've confirmed a magical child? Etc.

Only Dumbledore has a pensive, presumably a raee magical artefact, and it's located in Hogwarts. Harry doesn't know it exists until Book 6, and has no access to it for most of Book 7.
Uh, no, he knows it exists in Book 4, when he watches Barty Crouch Jr.'s trial. He could share what happened in the graveyard. Even if he didn't want to use that one, for whatever reason, surely there is another one somewhere in the country, the Department of Mysteries, if nowhere else.

Re: Well.

[(Anonymous)]

My theory is that the tracking usually works on an area basis, which is why Harry got blamed for Dobby's magic in book 2 (magic happened in the Dursley residence, Harry is the only magic user living there, must have been him). Around book 5 Harry may have got flagged in someway so that he was being tracked specifically because the Ministry was gunning for him, or the tracking might be broad enough and Little Winging non-magical enough that all magic in that neighborhood was attributed to him. That kind of tracking would be useless for kids with wizarding parents, but I think that's part of the society. The Ministry expects wizarding parents to monitor their own kids magic use so they don't intervene unless its something especially egregious. The point of that rule anyway is to keep magic secret and prevent kids from experimenting without supervision, so it's nbd if a couple of pureblood twins want to turn their brother's rat yellow.