[HPforGrownups] 11 Year Old Dark Wizards (was; OOP: Perseus Evans?)

[Nicholina ODonnell]

No: HPFGUIDX 69864

I'm way behind, but I wanted to respond to this particular snip of looscann:

From: looscann :


>  But I really wonder about the 
>motivations of a 9, 10, 11 year old to invest real time and effort 
>into studying how to cast these spells (while avoiding being nailed 
>by the MoM for underage magic usage).  

Kirstini wrote:

>2 - When MWPP, Snape and Lily were at Hogwarts, there wasn't a 
>restriction on underage magic out of term time. One of the first 
>things we learn about Lily is that Petunia remembers watching her 
>trying to Transfigure things during the holidays. Also, Snape 
>wouldn't have been able to get away with shooting down the flies 
>either. Why was the restriction introduced? I wonder if we're going 
>to learn more about this later. It does seem to be significant.

I thought this was a good point, but I also wanted to point out that the MoM doesn't seem to nail underage magic users.  Harry letting the snake free, Harry turning his teacher's wig blue, ect.  The MoM doesn't seem to start keeping track of underage magic users until they start at a wizarding school. Someone must, though, in order to figure out who to accept in school - perhaps Hogwarts.

Nicholina


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