Wands and Magic : was Random Musings from a lurker

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 15888

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., yumeno at m... wrote:
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> *comes out of lurkdom a tad shyly*
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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. 

Not entirely true.

Harry had several occasions had magickal things happen before he ever 
set foot in Hogwarts.

Ending up on the roof when he jumped to attempt a beating from Dudley 
and his bully boys.

Turning a teacher's wig blue.

His hair growing back overnight after Petunia cut it to this horrible 
near-bald state.  

Letting the snake out so he could see Brazil (after Dudley had hit 
Harry)

Neville also had various minor dangers thrust upon him by relatives 
attempting to force the magic out of him.  The one that worked 
without Neville nearly getting injured was when his uncle dropped him 
upside down out a window and Neville bounced. 

Plus, having a wand doesn't necessarily mean your magic is all that 
good. Gilderoy Lockhart (feh!) turned Harry's arm boneless and 
rubbery and at least once the wand got all wobbly and jumped out of 
his grip or was dropped.  

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?

There's also a bunch of enchanted stuff.  Arthur Weasley's job is to 
make sure wizardstuff that could be Muggle stuff doesn't get into 
Muggle hands...like the tea-set that went berserk and the shrinking 
keys.

Indigo