After discussing levels, it was time to talk about attributes.
The average adult had 5 points.
Lower-year students at school generally only had 3 to 4 points in Strength, Constitution, and Agility.
As for Intelligence, it ranged from 4 to 6 points.
Hermione, for example, was naturally brilliant and had a full 7 points! She was only twelve! She would keep growing in the future!
Then came skill levels.
Achieving Outstanding on the fifth-year O.W.L.s corresponded to Lv. 3.
Achieving Outstanding on the seventh-year N.E.W.T. exams corresponded to Lv. 4.
Lv. 8 was known as Master level.
For example, Professor Flitwick's Charms, or Snape's Potions and Dark Magic.
Lv. 9 and above was probably the pinnacle for ordinary wizards.
But to become a legend, there was another level above that: Lv. 9+!
Only Dumbledore's Transfiguration and Voldemort's Dark Magic should have reached that level.
Ted even suspected that Nicolas Flamel's alchemy was only Lv. 9.
Below skills came magic.
The level of a spell specifically depended on the wizard's own mastery.
Generally speaking, similar spells were limited by the relevant skill, though some could break through those limits.
Lockhart's Obliviate, for example, had absolutely reached Lv. 8. He had stolen the firsthand experiences of so many outstanding wizards without any of them noticing.
But his other spells had consequently been "neglected." The sacrifice had been enormous, and he had completely turned himself into a useless fool.
Maybe he had "specialized" in Obliviate so heavily that all his other spells had been downgraded?
What Ted could be certain of now was that the Four Founders had all definitely crossed the threshold of Level 20 before coming together to establish this thousand-year-old magical school.
Once they entered the legendary realm, the magic they studied was no longer ordinary magic like this spell