[HPFGU-Movie]wandless magic

[artsylynda at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/17/2004 6:29:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com writes:
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.


I was just watching Sorceror's Stone last night and Quirrel used wandless 
magic to force Harry to come stand in front of the Mirror of Erised.  Quirrel 
also "flies" twice in the film, once in the forest when he's drinking unicorn 
blood, and in the chamber when he attacks Harry (interesting that he could 
strangle Harry, but couldn't stand the feel of Harry's hands -- the protection is 
just in his HANDS??  Odd and illogical, but I'll take it anyway. . .)

Midichlorian count??  Whassat????  (I realize it's not HP, but you DID bring 
it up and now you have me curious!)



Lynda 
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