[HPforGrownups] Re: I'm new...I've got burning questions

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From: "Amy " <aiz24 at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 6:39 PM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: I'm new...I've got burning questions


>
> > 3. How come some wizards can conjure up platters of food, while
> poor
> > old Mrs. Weasley has to cook with her wand?
>
> Ah, the burning Wizard Economics question.  My theory: cooking is a
> mixture of muggle-type work and conjuring.  (Cream sauce does come
> pouring out of her wand, after all.)  An optional or additional
> possibility:  you can only conjure what you've got "in the bank," so
> to speak.  Dumbledore can conjure up anything that Hogwarts' riches
> can afford; Mrs. W can conjure up only what the Weasleys can
> afford.  ???
>

I assumed that the food at Hogwart's feasts was not conjured out of this
air, but was prepared by house elves, then apparated, in a sense, up to the
Great Hall and onto plates.

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