OOP: Re: Underage Magic

[Jeanne]

No: HPFGUIDX 67627

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "four4furies" <fourfuries at a...> 
wrote:
> --- 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.

I think that, among other things, the Decree against Underage Magic 
must be a relatively *recent* regulation.  (That could lead to 
imperfect detection and enforcement, among other things.)

Why?  Because, since Petunia's increasing knowledge of the WW is 
being revealed, *she would have known that Harry couldn't do magic 
away from school* because surely Lily would have been forbidden to do 
it, too - and I can't imagine Lily being able to resist, in normal 
circumstances, going an entire holiday without showing off or being 
asked to show off, a nice Summoning Charm for the proud parents.

Felinia