Spotting Magic (was: Revisitng The Decree)

[Fer Mendoza]

No: HPFGUIDX 47540

Eclipse wrote:
>    All this talk about the Decree for the Reasonable
> Restriction of Underage Sorcery, made me think that
> the office that manages it must not be able to enforce
> it while there are adult wizards around. They couldn't
> tell the difference between Harry's magic and Dobby's.
> I think that they just trust the wizard parents to
> police their own childern, and any magic that happened
> in Muggle homes must be done by the students because
> who else could of done it.


now me:

Agreed! If the ministry "spotted" someone doing magic in "the 
burrows", for example, I think they wouldn't be able to determine if 
it was Arthur, Molley or one of their underage kids.  I wonder how 
they do it ("spotting" magic), though. Any thoughts on this?  

-Fer