Wandless magic (Was Re: foreshadowing of 6 and 7)

[Diana]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, artsylynda at a... wrote:
 > But my take out on the foreshadowed story line relates to the 
early 
> scene with the Aunt Marge - and Harry's uncontrollable righteous 
> anger.
> It seems to me that this scene sees him breaking glasses, lights 
> flickering on and off, blowing up his aunt from an apparent 
discharge 
> of magic , Are the swings and play equipment swinging wildly 
around 
> without reason or an aftermath of a large magical discharge from 
> Harry ? is it wandless magic ?
> 
> I noticed too, that Dumbledore slowed Harry's fall in Quidditch 
with wandless 
> magic.  I'm certain Harry's wandless magic will come into play in 
the future, 
> and I think it will be a significant weapon against Voldemort.  
(Then again, 
> Dumbledore can do wandless magic, so maybe V can too???  Scary 
thought).

In the book wandless magic (complex magic is usually implied) is 
hinted to be difficult to do for most wizards, but in PoA, that idea 
was not strickly adhered to as there were several instances of 
wandless magic not performed by Harry in the movie.  Just the 
examples I can think of are:
*the busboy at the Leaky Cauldron waves his hand to get the chairs 
to put themselves on the table.  
*Dumbledore & Lupin both light (and in Dumbledore's case, 
extinguishes) candles without wands. 
*Professer Lupin waves his hands in front of the locks on the trunk 
to open it for the boggart dementor to come out for Harry's Patronus 
lesson.
*the movie had Dumbledore not using a wand to slow down Harry's 
fall, but in the book Hermione tell Harry, "He ran out onto the 
field as you fell, waved his wand, and you sort of slowed down 
before you hit the ground."  PoA, Chpt 9.

I might have missed some instances of wandless magic, but being able 
to do magic without a wand seems common place in the movie world of 
PoA, which lessens it's emphasis, specifically in Harry's case, in 
the books.  Of course, it is indicated in the books that all wizard 
children are capable of performing wandless magic (small bursts 
anyway) without evening knowing they are - thus Colin Creevey's 
comments to Harry about doing all this weird stuff before knowing he 
was wizard upon their first meeting in CoS.  

>From my repeated reading of the books, I'm certain that only 
powerful wizards can regulary perform complex magic without using a 
wand.  What this implies of Harry's magical abilities is obvious - 
he's a very powerful wizard, but hasn't yet realized it.  It's 
repeated often that James and Lily were very smart, clever and 
powerful wizards, so it stands to reason that Harry inherited the 
best of both his parents to become an extremely powerful wizard.  
It's easy to infer that Harry is a more powerful wizrd than 
Voldemort, which is why Voldemort fears him.  And of course, Harry's 
midichlorian count is off the charts!  Ooops, wrong movie.... <g>

Diana L.