OOP: Re: Underage Magic

[four4furies]

No: HPFGUIDX 67446

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Andrea" <crawford1270 at y...> 
wrote:
> As for the Dobby incident in COS and the Ministry's misjudgement of 
> that, I think it is a FLINT.  I think it is evident in OOP that the 
> Ministry has magical means of knowing who performs a spell.  
> Obviously their were wizards apparating and disapparating at all 
> summer to guard Harry. Between his Guard and whatever the Order 
might 
> have been doing at Ms. Figg's house, Privet Drive would have been a 
> hotbed of magical activity.  The fact that in OOP they could 
separate
> Harry's magic from Fletcher's apparating not that much earlier in 
the 
> evening says to me that they are able to distingush between spell 
> casters.  They should have been aware that the magic done in POA 
was 
> not performed by Harry.
> 
> Andrea

Me:

So sorry to disagree.  One of the major mysteries yet to be explained 
is the magical nature and powers of house-elves.  Fudge still doesn't 
beleive that a house-elve could have been present at the cake 
explosion in COS.  That is why Harry is blamed.  It is no flint.  It 
is that plenty of things happen that outside the control or even 
monitoring of MOM officials (pompous bloviating pinheads that they 
may be).

Dobby can evidently apparate within Hogwarts when wizards can not; 
did magic that MOM could not detect as his, and had power to threaten 
Lucious that Lucius did not want to challenge.  It is highly likely 
that House elves, like Centaurs, are vastly more magically powerful 
than most wizards, and the wizards are delusional about their own 
place in the hierachy, as erroneously displayed in the fountain.