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Chapter 0054 Farewell, Trace, and Wall Street

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Today is the last day of school and the students returning home will take the Hogwarts train back to King's Cross Station in London tomorrow.

When Ye Ting arrived at the great hall, Professors McGonagall and Flitwick were busy setting up the Christmas decorations, and he saw Hagrid walking in holding a very large fir tree, and the needles were falling everywhere.

"Ah, Hagrid put the last tree in the corner over there, will you?" Professor McGonagall said casually.

The great hall looked beautiful and spectacular. The walls were covered with draped ribbons of holly and mistletoe, and there were a dozen towering Christmas trees erected all over the room, some with little shiny icicles, others with hundreds of candles flickering on them.

Unfortunately, none of this concerned him, although he was looking forward to staying at Hogwarts over the holidays, participating in the Christmas party, and tasting the special Christmas food, frankly, the food at Hogwarts has always been both rich and delicious, far surpassing the unbearable local delicacies of the British Muggles.

But he also has his own big money-making plans.

Leaving Hogwarts on a class day was quite a hassle, not only having to travel long distances, Hogwarts has restricted apparition, but also to avoid the surveillance of the portraits, statues, ghosts, professors, as well as the forbidden forest creatures. Plus He also had to return early before the next morning, making it completely difficult.

So, the Christmas holiday is his only chance. In the past few years, he has missed the opportunity to short the yen in the Japanese plaza accord, and during the Gulf War at the beginning of the year to short oil. Next year, George Soros's time to short the pound will be after the start of September. All the major events like the disintegration of the Soviet Union must be seized.

Early the next morning, he took the Hogwarts Express and embarked on a journey back to London.

His three female friends, Hermione, Cho Chang, and Penelope, were not staying at school for the holidays, so he and the three of them hugged each other goodbye at King's Cross Station.

"Don't forget to write back to us." Penelope said to him reluctantly, "I know you don't have an owl, but I'll write to you, along with Christmas presents."

"Sure, I'll remember." Ye Ting smiled and nodded, feeling some warmth in his heart.

Finally, each of the three girls secretly gave him a kiss when no one was looking.

In this regard, Ye Ting was both touched and a little helpless, and there was a little excitement and relief in his heart.

It seems he was destined to be a sinful man, but whatever.

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After bidding farewell to the three girls, Ye Ting was ready to get down to business.

For this operation, he had already made enough preparations: a large dose of petrification potion, the antidote to the petrified potion and a whole crucible of half-finished compound tonics. Some time ago, it was he who infiltrated Snape's private storeroom together with Orianna, stole the herbs, and then made these potions in the Room of Requirement.

The original petrification potion was completely redundant. After all, there was still the existence of the petrification spell.

But Ye Ting feels that his magic power was not strong enough, and his mastery of the petrification spell was not deep enough, so the petrification spell did not last long enough, so he had to use the potion to replace the effect of the spell.

All these things were under the shrinking charm and were hidden in the pocket of his cloak.

After leaving King's Cross Station, he did not immediately return to the Wool's Orphanage, but went directly to the London airport.

Relying on the confusion charm as well as the disillusionment charm, he got on a plane heading to New York, USA.

Of course, due to the existence of traces, underage wizards will be sensed by the Ministry of Magic after using magic spells outside the school, and then the young wizards who use magic spells will receive a letter from the Ministry of Magic to warn them, and in serious cases, they may even have Aurors come to their door.

But the trace is not without flaws.

According to Ye Ting's analysis, the trace does not sense exactly which small wizard used magic. Its principle is to sense the location of the underage wizard when using magic.

When young wizards live in muggle households, the Ministry of Magic can easily determine the identity of the offender by the home address of the young wizard since they are quite spread out from each other and their parents do not know magic.

And when the young wizards who used magic in violation were in wizard families, it was not so easy to determine the identity of the young wizards through the traces, but it didn't matter, because the law of wizards states that for the young wizards in such families, their use of magic is to be supervised by their parents.

The reason why Ye Ting was able to come to this conclusion comes from the fact that Harry Potter was framed during the summer vacation in the original book: it was Dobby who used magic, but the Ministry of Magic insisted that Harry had used magic, and sent him a warning letter.

This proves that the Ministry of Magic can only confirm the location and not the user.

And now, Ye Ting is already prepared.

He chose to get on a plane that was about to depart, so when the Aurors arrived at the airport through apparition, the plane had already taken off, and Ye Ting had long since left the crime scene and flew far away.

The Aurors looked around the airport blankly, but found nothing. As a result, the muggles nearby were startled by their sudden appearance, who would have thought that an underage wizard would dare to use magic in public.

In the past incidents they dealt with, due to the location in the muggle world, the young wizards would often secretly cast spells in hidden places to prevent being discovered as monsters, while the Aurors were able to catch the perpetrators on the spot after appearing directly at the scene of the incident through apparition.

But this time they ran into an accident.

Some muggles thought they were hallucinating, some were scared and ran away, and some were excited and asked questions. If there were smartphones in this era, the Auror's pictures and videos would have appeared on social media to be watched by the muggles.

The Auror's next step is the widespread obliviation spell and it is estimated that the Minister of Magic will have to notify the British Prime Minister to cooperate with the control of the fishing boat, after all, the place of the accident is the waiting room of the airport, where the flow of people is too big. Perhaps there are witnesses who have left by plane already. If not properly handled and the incident further fermented, maybe the world will be famous for one more mystery.

As for Ye Ting, he did not know how much trouble he had brought to the Ministry of Magic and the British government, at this time he was on his way to New York.

Now because the trace can only be effective in the UK, that is, after he left the country, he can use magic at will, the British Ministry of Magic cannot control him.

As for ministries of magic in other countries, at least there is no international practice of sharing information about the trace.

The flight took eight hours, and by the time the plane reached New York, the sky was already dark. But Ye Ting did not immediately deal with finding a place to stay or settling for dinner, his time is very tight right now.

The feast of the dissolution of the Soviet Union was about to begin, and most people had already entered the venue, so he had to hurry.

First, the first step is to solve the identity problem, he certainly can not do this through his own identity, because he is too young, and has no original funds.

Instead, his solution was to find someone with enough reputation to launch his plan, someone who works in finance and has enough credibility and assets, and should currently be single or living alone.

This is not to say that Ye Ting wants to embezzle other people's property, he is not so impecunious, he feels that robbing muggles with magic is neither technical nor in line with his identity, the future god of magic robbing mortals?

The reason he wants to choose such a person is because he needs a loan, and making money through a loan is his best choice.

As for being single and living alone, it's even easier: just use magic to fix the target himself, while using someone who has a family and falsifying their memories will be a big problem, not many will believe in such things as group hallucinations.

And the best place to find a single financial worker with credit and wealth is Wall Street in New York.