Random musings from a lurker

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No: HPFGUIDX 15872


*comes out of lurkdom a tad shyly*

Hi, everyone. I've been lurking on this list for a month or two..or three. I don't quite remember. ^^; I'm Tavichan, and I just had a few random thoughts on the books that I hope haven't been covered before, so not as to bore everyone to death. *grins* Sooo..

1. Thought that popped into my head, though I don't know if it's been brought up. It's speculated in the books that Snape might have hated James because of his Quidditch talent. So, did Snape play Quidditch himself? (I have a really hard time picturing Snape playing Quidditch, however>

2. I woke up this morning with Arthur Weasley's comment about how many ways Muggles have found to live without magic ringing in my head. 
That started me thinking on just why many wizards consider themselves superior to Muggles just because they can do magic. But magic, in Harry's world, seems to depend almost entirely on using wands. Deprive a wizard of their wand and they lose their power and become no different from a Muggle. Broomsticks are enchanted to fly-Muggles might be able to fly them just as well as wizards. And I can only think of one wand-free spell that might not even be one-Lupin's handful of fire in the train scene in PoA. Not only that, but the wands themselves all contain parts of some magical creature-unicorns, dragons, phoenixes, etc. How much of the magic is from the wizard-and how much from the wand?
Thinking about Arthur's comment also made me wonder if perhaps in the future, the wizarding world might find themselves deprived of magic in some way and have to learn new ways of doing things. Maybe that's also part of why Dumbledore wanted Harry to stay with the Dursleys-so he has a Muggle upbringing, learns how to do things without using magic and isn't totally dependent on magic to do everything.

Any thoughts? ^-^

Tavichan