"I know, but we have to make due with what we have. For a society so focused on tradition and lack of progression, I would have thought there would be more who knew how to wield a weapon besides their wand." It really showed how lazy mages became. Only a few families bothered, like the Greengrass family, and it tended to be the rich ones who had the money for mentors. It wasn’t about a piece of legislature that caused it to wane, just the passage of time.