Creative Hermione (Was:spells: hard not to think like a Muggle)

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 24539

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., prefectmarcus at y... wrote:

> making them up.  If any of the trio would memorize a obscure charm 
> for moving trees, it would be Hermione.  

True enough :) 

I'd love to see a list of all the spells she knows. I'll bet there 
are some weirder ones than that in there...


> 
> Perhaps the truth is somewhere in the middle.  She could have found 
a 
> chapter in a book somewhere entitled "Moving Charms".  It outlined 
> the basic theory and contained a long list of examples.  She 
glanced 
> through it learning all the obvious ones.  "Mobiliarbus" would be 
an 
> obvious one for someone knowing latin, would it not?  I don't know 
> latin so I wouldn't know.  :)

It certainly would. You'd know that one long before you'd know the 
word for "club." So that would make perfect sense. That's a good 
reason why she wouldn't have even had to have read it somewhere to be 
able to figure out how to say it correctly.

Steve