[HPforGrownups] Re: accidental magic

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 47247



Alina wrote:
> 
> Jazmyn (jazmyn at pacificpuma.com) wrote:
> > I kinda get the idea that a wizards powers don't really start
> > to kick in till they are at least 10-11 years old.  Or they would
> not
> > dare let kids under 11 have wands!
> 
> You must've forgotten your GoF to get that idea. Remember the
> quidditch
> championship, where Harry and Ron and Hermione went to get water and
> saw a
> whole number of little children doing magic? Two girls on toy
> broomsticks,
> floating. A toddler making a slug bigger using his father's wand. What
> about
> the fact that we know for sure that every wizard-born student in
> Hogwarts
> (except Neville) flew a broomstick before coming to school?
> 

The brooms are magical themselves and its likely it takes almost no
magical ability to fly one. How well one flies one depends more on
balance and a certain amount of natural skill, much like riding a horse,
then anything.  I'd bet that a squib or a muggle could fly a broom if
all it takes to get one off the ground is saying 'UP!' and not even
concentrating on making the broom rise... In fact, Quiddich Through the
Ages supports the idea that the brooms do the flying, the rider just
controls them.  

Wands focus the powers and a wand in an untrained child's hands at too
early an age would be dangerous.  The kid with the slug was NOT supposed
to be playing with his dad's wand anymore then a small child would be
allowed to play with a handgun... Surprised the mother was not a lot
more upset then she was.  The child could have been enlarging one of his
playmates rather then that slug!



> Not to mention, what about all the magic Harry did! He shrank an ugly
> sweater (jumper), he transported himself to a roof of a building, he
> grew
> his hair back and removed the glass from the zoo.
> 
> Alina.
> 

Note that the 'accidental magic' happens during stress and is not
controlled.  Takes a wand to control it properly..
You simply don't see kids under 11 given THEIR OWN wands.. Young Kevin
and his daddy's wand is not an example of children being allowed wands
because he was not supposed to be playing with it.  Frankly 'mom' should
have been as frantic as if she walked in on her kid playing with a .357
magnum, in my opinion..

Jazmyn