[HPforGrownups] Lizards & Thanksgiving, Musings

[Denise Rogers]

No: HPFGUIDX 6037

Perhaps since Ron's not inanimate, this spell wouldn't work on him like it
would a broom, which hasn't any feelings?

Wonders if you can summon mice?  Make a good experiment to test my
theory....


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> > (3) Another old chestnut: why didn't Harry (or
> > anybody
> > else, for that matter) use a summoning spell to save
> > Ron during the second task in GoF? Possible answer:
> > they weren't allowed to use any spell more than
> > once.
>
> I would presume that water poses an obstacle for that
> spell - my impression is that in many variants of
> folklore, water is an inhibitor for magic.  Of course,
> Harry and the other Hogwarts-students could just be
> obsessed with finding complicated solutions, where a
> simpler solution would have sufficed.



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