[HPforGrownups] anger magic

[Meliss9900 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 60467

In a message dated 6/15/2003 3:24:05 AM Central Standard Time, 
pyggiegirl at aol.com writes:

> My apologies... this post is completely unrelated to OoP. I'm 
> confused about one thing. All those times when Harry did magic 
> without meaning to (when he was staying with the Dursley's), all he 
> had to do was get really angry, or something like that. But there are 
> other times he's gotten really angry (at Snape, Malfoy, etc.), and 
> nothing has happened. Is there an explanation for this? 

Its been explained a wee bit. The magic that has happened in the Muggle world 
is  "accidental magic" and apparently its quite common. .I'd bet that it 
affects Muggle borns more often simply because they don't have any trained 
witches/wizards around them to help. Once they are at school they probably aquire a 
bitof control over it.  Or maybe since they have wands now they can just let 
the hexes fly when they become angry rather than wait for it to build to the 
accidental level as it did with Harry.  

> 
> breaking the rules when he does it over the summer, even though he 
> doesn't do it on purpose. Shouldn't there be a class or something at 
> Hogwarts that explains this sort of magic and how to effectively use 
> and control it? Could this be another genre of magic altogether? 
> (Like wand magic, Old Magic, etc.)


I think that they grow out of the accidental magic stage as they get older 
and aquire more training.   


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