Wards

[danajsparks.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering where the idea of magical protective wards comes from. It's a fairly ubiquitous concept in HP fan fiction, but I'm not finding anything about wards in the books. There is the blood protection on 4 Privet Drive, but I don't think that's ever called a ward.

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[oryx_leucoryx]

OK, at the Ministry Albus mentions an anti-disapparition jinx. And in HBP Severus managed to reach Hogwarts' boundaries to disapparate. So the word 'wards' isn't mentioned, but they clearly are there.