[HPforGrownups] Can Muggles do Magic?

[yr awen]

No: HPFGUIDX 41373

Uncmark said:

>Now if a Teaset would work for Muggles, wouldn't an invisibility 
cloak? Could Dudley fly a broom? Agreed Dudley's stupid, but could 
you picture him finding Harry's potion book and trying to brew 
something to make him lose weight?

I think the teaset incident wasn't an instance of magic working *for* a Muggle as much as it's working *against* him/her <g> According to what I gathered from the text, the teaset attacks the unwitting Muggles, who must have done something to set it off. Enchanted objects, by inference from that, are enchanted whether or not the user/victim is magical. Arthur mentions keys enchanted to shrink whenever their Muggle owners try to find them (I think I have one of those) as being an example of 'Muggle baiting,' so I think we can infer from that objects that are inherently magical (not wands, which channel magical energy) or are enchanted *and* don't require a spell to work can be used by anyone. That would probably explain Arthur's insistence upon the Muggle Protection Act and his industry in preventing the misuse of Muggle artifacts -- if a Muggle gets her hands on something enchanted that could possibly be dangerous (eg attack teaset) she has no way to defend herself.

HF.




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