[HPforGrownups] Wandless Magic

[Susanne Schmid]

No: HPFGUIDX 24676

 --- princesskatie115 - <princesskatie115 at hotmail.com>
ha scritto
> In GoF
Voldemort is talking to the Death Eaters
> (chapter: The Death Eaters), 
> and he says (and this time I dug out the book, so
> it’s an actual quote
), 
> ‘
for I had no body, and every spell which might
> have helped me required the 
> use of a wand
’
> 
> I wonder what way I should take this
 Because it
> seems to me that it can be 
> taken a few different ways.

<sorry, I cut them out, in order not to make this too
long>
 
> Any thoughts??

I always had this extremely prosaic idea that, first
without a body, and then inhabiting snakes, Voldemort
didn't even have *hands* to do magic. I'm sure that
wizards *can* do magic with their bare hands, it's
just a question of focusing power. When Gred or Forge
(I never remeber who it was) turned Ron's Teddy Bear
into a spider at the age of five, he probably did it
without a wand (if the story is true, which I somehow
doubt). Harry blew up Aunt Marge without a wand.

So my theory would be that wandless magic is possible
1)when the wizard in question is still very young and
untrained, in case of strong emotional stress- magic
simply "erupts", but cannot be controlled and used at
will.
2)when the wizard has full consciousness of his/her
power and can control his/her magic abilities.

You could compare it with the strange phenomenon of
new-born babies able to swim under water, then losing
this ability, later on using some device for learning
how to swim, and finally being able to swim all by
themselves, without any help.

Susanna/pigwidgeon37



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