Wizarding primary schools again

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No: HPFGUIDX 16587

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> catherine at c... wrote:
> 
> > As to why they don't learn simple charms - one theory may be that
> > Dumbledore wants to make sure that all children start their 
magical
> > education on a similar footing.
> 
> A question (which might be based on another Flint). I am totally not
> remembering where the whole "teddy turned into spider" scene is, at 
all,
> so I may have my facts off, but if Ron was three when Fred (or 
George,
> can't remember, apologies) turned his teddy into a spider, they were
> only four or five. So I'm inferring from this that wizarding 
children
> *do* dabble in magic, but they're not formally schooled until 
Hogwarts.
> 
> Any thoughts? Did I get ages wrong or anything? I can't believe I 
can't
> remember where that *is*....
> 
> --Amanda, losing brain cells by the day, seems like
> 
> 
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It could have been unfocused magic. [i.e. Without a wand, like when 
Harry blew up Aunt Marge] A surge of anger should be enough to fuel 
unfocused magic.