/Misuse Muggle Artifacts

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

No: HPFGUIDX 38259

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "kitty_felini" <vdegroote at w...> wrote:

> And  I suppose if a Muggle could get a hold of an enchanted tea 
> set...I'm so confused!  Any theories?    

I'm confused by their laws, too, but I thought the deal with the 
teapot was that the old witch had died (of old age) and her next of 
kin were Muggles (maybe she was Muggle-born and her next of kin were 
her great-grand-nephews and -nieces, maybe her only child was a Squib 
who made a life among Muggles and the next of kin were her 
great-grand-children).

The Muggle next-of-kin may have known that Granny was a witch (at 
least they knew that she was unusually old, over 120 years old, and 
they may have seen her do commonplace magic with her wand) but they 
didn't know anything about MoM, wizarding law, that whole other 
society hidden away.

So they probated her will (or had her declared intestate) in the 
normal Muggle way, and sorted all the objects in her house in the 
normal Muggle way, and sent a lot of stuff off to Muggle thrift 
shops, including an old-fashioned tea set that was not recognized as 
enchanted nor as a valuable antique...