Harry's brand of Magic

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 1548

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Scott " <harry_potter00 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> Last of all there is Harry's own brand of magic, i.e. Blowing up
> Aunt Marge, making V's and regurgitate spells, the disappearing 
> glass of the boa's cage etc....So can most wizards do this type of
> spontaneous magic? 

Book 1. Hagrid appears and tells Harry that he's a wizard. Harry says 
there must be some mistake; he doesn't have magic powers. Hagrid 
grins and asks him if strange things ever happen around him when he 
is angry or upset. And indeed they had, like flying to the roof of 
the school cafeteria while running away from Dudley's gang. Hagrid 
said it as if this normally happen with little wizards, not unique 
to Harry.

Book 2. Ron confesses his phobia of spiders and attributes it to (I 
forget which twin) having turned his teddy into a spider 'just 
because I broke his toy broomstick' when Ron was three. If Ron was 
three, the twin was five, and I doubt he was using a wand at five.

When did we meet Colin Creevey? He tells Harry that when he got the 
letter from Hogwarts, his parents were terribly relieved to find that 
there was an explanation (magic) for all those strange things he 
could do.