[HPforGrownups] Re: My Conjuring Rant (WAS Limitations of magic on the Harry Potter series)

[Klawzie]

No: HPFGUIDX 29971


> This leaves me filled with questions.  Why can't
> Lupin conjure up new 
> robes if Dumbledore can conjure sleeping bags and
> Bill can conjure 
> tablecloths?  Why buy food at all?  Why doesn't Mrs.
> Weasley conjure 
> up a new bedspread for Ron without a hole in it? 
> Why doesn't Mr. 
> Weasley have the kids save their money and instead
> treat them all to 
> conjured omnioculars, as the omnioculars only have
> to last a few 
> hours during the Quiddich World Cup?  Why should
> Arthur Weasley buy 
> dress robes at all instead of conjuring them out of
> thin air as 
> needed?  

Perhaps what is meant by 'conjuring' is simply "taking
something from one place to another without having to
walk to the first place to bring it to the second". 

Ex: Bill's Tablecloth. Instead of walking to the linen
closet, getting the table cloth and then putting it on
the table, he simply "accesses" the table cloth from
the closet and -poof-.

All the things you've mentioned seem to be things the
person would have at home. 

In the case of the Leprechaun gold, they simply
conjure it back in a few hours, apparently giving the
person they gave it to/who stole it/whatever the
chance to use it to buy things while they still could.
(Of course, the Leprechaun 'conjuring' might work
differently than that, but it's a theory. ;) )

~Klawz
klawz_hangar at hotmail.com
http://klawzie.tripod.com

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