Underage Magic

[chappysmom]

No: HPFGUIDX 67217

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jsmithqwert" 
<jsmithqwert at h...> wrote:
> A further question that I have concerns magic  coming to and going 
> home from Hogwarts.  In one of the books (sorry but don't have them 
> with me) the students practice disarming each other on the way 
home, > but Fred (or was it George) has commented that they pass out 
notices > telling students not to perform magic outside of school 
before they > get on the train home.
> 

-------------------I think it's possible that the train still counts 
as "school" for the purposes of the no-magic-outside-school rule. 
I've wondered about Fred and George working on their jokes over 
summer vacation--which clearly uses magic. In OOP, though, Harry's 
letter clearly states that he's in trouble for using magic in front 
of a muggle (as well as while on break). Maybe that's "part" of the 
rule--it wouldn't have gotten him into so much trouble if he'd lit 
his wand at the Quidditch World Cup in GoF or zapped a garden gnome 
at the Burrow--but performing magic in a muggle neighborhood and in 
the presence of a muggle is that much more serious? 

And, I do still wonder--if the MoM is so very on top of things to 
know exactly when he's used magic at the Dursleys', how, HOW, did 
they ever fall into the misapprehension that Dobby's floating pudding 
was Harry's magic? There was no trouble with Mr. Weasley's repairing 
the wrecked sitting room, or the kids using floo powder there, but a 
house elf floats a pudding and HARRY gets blamed?? That's never 
seemed fair to me!

--Deb