random thoughts of a gardener

[rja.carnegie at excite.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 19066

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Zarleycat at a... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Stephanie Roark Keener" <sdrk1 at y...> 
> wrote:
> > [Can wizard babies] do things back to you?  Can they magic off their 
> > diaper if they don't want to wear it?  Can they force you to hold 
> > them all the time?  
> 
> Hmmm.  I wonder if babies would be able to concentrate or focus their 
> magical abilities in order to do things.  I'd think a wizard parent 
> would be stronger magically than a baby, so the baby could not 
> control them.  But what about Muggle parents?  Do Hermione's parents 
> have strange stories to tell about the weird things she did as a baby?

I've just remembered that _Which Witch_ by Eva Ibbotson asserts
that witches and warlocks are born with a full set of teeth.
And I understand that babies actually have to learn to breast-feed
properly.  That's not an appealing combination of circumstances.

We only meet Harry at age one, so AFAIK we still don't know if the
rule applies in HP.  Go to it, fanficcers.  You know you want to. ;-)

Meanwhile, I'm imagining Mr and Mrs Granger telephoning the British
Dental Association to ask about consequences when two dentists marry?

Robert Carnegie
Glasgow, Scotland

"I read them all when I was seven and I hated them" - unnamed American
office worker on the Harry Potter books (www.dilbert.com, List of
Stupid Things Overheard)