Can Muggles do Magic?

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No: HPFGUIDX 41378

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., > I proposed:
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> >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?

"yr awen" <yrawen at o...> wrote:
> 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> 

>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. 

Good Insight... I think the the Dursley's fall through a loophole in 
the Muggle Protection act as family to Harry so are aware of Magic 
(Hermione's Parents similarly were in Diagon Alley in PoA)

Back to my question... So would Dudley be able to fly off on the 
Firebolt or worse steal the invisibility cloak? I can picture him 
going through Harry's chest and noticing a strange cloth the made his 
hand disappear. It would only take a minute to steal... And before 
you go for the easy excuse that Hedwig guards Harry's things, Harry 
will probably send Hedwig off with letters to deliver


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