Hearme
Hearme is a third level evocation with an unlimited range and a material requirement of a quarter gram of copper.
This spell allows the castor to send a short message of around twenty-five words to any one person, anywhere on Earth. The receiver will hear the sender's voice as if they were a few feet away yet it is unperceivable to anyone else.
Hearme was discovered in San Francisco on March 21, 2006. This time was the beginning of the tech boom when millions of people were opening social media accounts. The ease of sending instant messages online made Hearme obsolete before it’s first use. Plus, the cost of copper would make each message cost about fifteen cents at the time. An interesting note is that mobile phone companies lowered their text message rates to undercut any competition this spell would have offered.
Hearme is mostly used in developing regions by those who do not have access to mobile technology.
One drawback of Hearme is that the receiver of the message has no control overhearing the spoken words. In the same year of its discovery, the FCC amended the Telephone Consumer Protection Act to include unsolicited uses of Hearme. Local offices of the Department of Magical Affairs have equipment and personnel trained to track the source of the spell to protect anyone who may feel they are being harassed.