Wandless Magic (was RE: Odd to me

[Mrs. Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force)]

[Asli]:
| The non-existence of a wand also startled me. If wizards can do magic 
| without a wand- which I've never seen before, correct me if 
| anyone has 
| seen an example of this- why is expelliarmus such a useful spell? Why 
| couldn't Dumbledore do anything without his wand?

[Lee]:
In SS:

"Quirrell snapped his fingers. Ropes sprang out of thin air and wrapped
themselves tightly around Harry."

There's an instance on wandless magic.  I think there were others, but I
don't have time to browse just now.

Of course, we know how many wandless things Harry did. :-)

I believe Dumbledore could have done anything he wanted to do, but when
Draco did the Expelliarmus, Dumbledore probably figured Harry would try to
jump Draco and prevented it by freezing Harry...probably wandlessly.  I hold
to that because it wasn't until Dumbledore fell from the tower that the
freeze broke.

I think magic is mostly intent, the wand is a means of focus and control.
But those with a lot of experience, power and discipline can, no doubt, do
controled wandless magic.

Cheers,

Lee :-)

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