Accio Use (Was Re: "Get The Golden Egg" Plot Hole!)

[uncmark]

No: HPFGUIDX 37919

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., > 
> Ellen A.K.A. Moriel Malkin delurked to suggest:
> > Why didn't Harry just use the summoning charm he had ready to 
> > summon  the golden egg to himself?  
 
> Amy Z, "lupinesque" wrote:
> > This is a really good question, answerable only, I think, by  
> > "because dragon eggs are protected by very strong magic and one 
> > can't just Summon one out of the nest, even if it's just a golden 
> > fake."  

 "grey_wolf_c" <greywolf1 at j...> wrote:

> the last time we talked about it in the list we reached certain 
> conclussions that can be used here. To be able to accio an object, 
> you must be able to see it or be VERY familiar with it. Most of the 
> time, you also need to  say it's name, 

> Then again, maybe the dragon was sitting on them, which would make 
> it much more difficult to aim with the spell through the powerful 
> magical defenses of the dragon 

> A final reason: the dragon is not stupid. If one of his 
> eggs starts to fly away, he would just grab it and put it back in 
> its place.

My belief is that there must be anti-summoming spells in place over 
the egg and this was probably explained offpage as Harry, Moody, and 
not even Hermione considered it. I can easily pictuer Hermione 
objecting, "You to learn a summoning charm? But the prize surely has 
a counter charm for that!"

I'm guessing anti-accio charms are well accepted at Hogwart's. 
Otherwise it would be much easier to get the Polyjuice Potion 
ingredients in book 2 (Yes I know they haven't learned it yet) but 
Moody would have used accio to summon the same ingredients in Book 4. 
Instead, he had to physically enter Snape's Office (Possibly wearing 
his own invisibility cloak.)

Could you omagine the mischief, Fred & George could get into if there 
weren't anti-accio charms? Why go to the kitchens if you could just 
summon sweets? A dishonest student could summon the contents of 
Honeyduke's or Zonko's from Hogsmeade without paying... Or steal 
teacher's tests or forbidden books, etc.

WORSE Draco knew about Harry's invisibility cloak. Could you imagine 
Draco stealing Harry's cloak? or by using the opposite banishment 
could he plant contraband in Harry's room and accuse him of some 
crime? If this was possible, Draco might try this as early as book 
two by paying an older Slytherin to plant incriminating evidence. 
Remember Harry and Ron were on a sort of probation after the Anglia 
Incident.

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