Riddikulus and Expecto Patrono - De-Aging - Apparation and Animagery - Who is Doomed? - Good/Evil - Wand

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 24815

Martin wrote:

> Riddikulus and Expecto Patronum (which are approx 
> the same level of difficulty

I don't think they can be the same level of difficulty, as Lupin is
apparently teaching Riddikulus to all the third year students (for all
we know, to ALL the students), but he told Harry "The spell I am going
to try and teach you is highly advanced magic, Harry -- well beyond
ordinary Wizarding Level. It is called the Patronus Charm" and "Many
qualified wizards have difficulty with it."

Cindy wrote:

>  In GoF, Fred and George just went to the 
> hospital wing to be de-aged.  So you probably
> only have to take an antidote, which Mrs. Figg 
> could take to make herself younger.

Kelly Hurt already said that the twins just went to be de-bearded, but I
was thinking that if there IS a de-ageing potion, if it works on age
acquired by travelling forward in time at the rate of one second per
second, that might explain why wizards live longer than Muggles.

Cindy wrote:

> I wonder which spell is more difficult:  apparating
> or animagus transformation? (snip) But the MoM has 
> a special squad to fix flawed apparations, so it must 
> be harder to do correctly.  

More people Apparate than become Animagi: it seems that almost all adult
wizards Apparate, but there were only seven registered Animagi in one
hundred years. I'm tempted to say that having so many more Apparators
than Animages shows that Apparation is easier, but it might just be so
much more useful that people are willing to put in the effort to learn
it. 

So if Apparation and Animagery were equally difficult, there would be
many more Apparation accidents (because of more Apparators), which would
justify having one squad for Apparation catastrophes but making
Animagery catastrophes just share the same old Accidental Magic Reversal
Squad. 

Aleks wrote:

> when LV touched the Dark Mark of a DE they were
> all to disapparate and apparate immediately at 
> his side. If this is the case then how would t
> hey know where to go? Does Apparating allow you
> to focus on a person and as well as place for 
> your destination? And if this is so why can't 
> MoM wizards focus on LV, apparate to his side 
> and capture him? 

Presumably normal Apparation only allows the wizard to Apparate to a
place, not to a person, but the Dark Mark magically gives its wearer the
ability to Apparate to LV, altho' not to any other person, and only when
LV summons them. The only way the MoM wizards could Apparate to LV is if
their Death Eater double agent obeyed the summons, then instantly
Apparated away to MoM to tell the others the location. (I am assuming
that there is some way to describe a location well enough for a person
who has never been there to Apparate there. I invented a book named the
Apparatlas which is a listing of this descriptions.) Apparating in and
right out like that might put the DEs on the alert.

Cindy wrote:

> Also, on the train in P of A, only two people are
> seriously affected by the dementor:  Harry and Ginny

In Harry's compartment, three people were badly affected by the
Dementor: Harry, Ginny, AND Neville. "Ginny and Neville looked back at
him, both very pale." "It was horrible," said Neville, in a higher voice
than usual. "Did YOU feel how cold it got when it came in?" We learn in
GoF what horrors Neville has in his past (even if he was not present
when his parents were captured and tortured, he has to go visit them at
each holiday).

We also know on one person who was badly affected OUTSIDE Harry's
compartment: Draco Malfoy. The twins tell Harry:  "That little git,"
[George] said calmly. "He wasn't so cocky last night when the dementors
were down at our end of the train. Came running into our compartment,
didn't he, Fred?" "Nearly wet himself," said Fred, with a contemptuous
glance at Malfoy.

Makes me wonder what horrors Draco has in HIS past. He has a father who
is well qualified to provide horrors, or was it just seeing Quirrel and
the unicorn.

Little Alex wrote:

> I fully believe that if 'evil' will reap more 
> rewards without punishments, most people will 
> go with the 'evil' choice instead of the 'good.'
> Well, at least I would.  I think.

I think it's brave of you to admit that. Nonetheless, I'm not going to
start assuming that you're evil just yet, as I believe that the most
important rewards and punishments are internal: the reward of feeling
good about oneself and the punishment of feeling guilty or ashamed.
Those are enough to keep most people behaving fairly virtuously most of
the time. Even though people are pretty good at making excuses to
themselves... 

Catherine wrote:

> I am also wandering how he overpowered Bertha 
> Jorkins - with or without wand?  Did he steal 
> her's and use it against her?  

Her shade came out of Voldemort's wand. Are you implying that her shade
represented only the Avada Kedavra and Cruciatis curses that V put on
her after W fetched her? If so, maybe W fetched her by trickery, such as
inviting her for a romantic stroll in the woods.
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