Professor Fox sighed quietly to himself. He nodded grimly as if almost in defeat, thinking to himself that he will from now on spend a single class period on a single number. "Yes Ms. Rey, I understand your confusion. There is no 'zeroeth law spell,' the zeroeth law is simply a statement of the way magic works. A wizard could no more do what you are suggesting than they could resurrect Ben Hurr. Unfortunately, there are limits to even what wizards can do, and this is one of them. Thus, the statement 'if a spell could speed up the decaying, by force of the zeroeth law' is a moot argument. The 'zeroeth law' is a natural magical property not a force. A spell which causes other magic spells to decay does not 'use' said law, it simply causes magic to decay. There are numerous spells of that nature, each of them operates and behaves slightly different than the rest, but they too are bound by the same laws which govern all spells, thus there are ways to prevent that kind of sinister motive.
"To illustrate the point, there are a number of different ways and spells to locate an object. Each of them may be described partially by the properties of four as well as eight and other numbers, but they are charms and spells nonetheless. As such, they too can be overcome by other spells. There is no such thing Ms. Rey as a 'perfect spell' which cannot be overcome, all spells are made by humans, and therefore all spells are not perfect." Professor Fox sighed, looking rather tired. He somehow thought he had managed to just make the students come up with some new thing to misinterpret. Again, sighing in heavy resignation he paused for a moment to enjoy the silence of the classroom before inevitably and regretably asking "Are there any further questions?"
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