OOP chapters 3 and 7, something I'm wondering about

[Melissa Worcester]

No: HPFGUIDX 61607

A minor spoiler follows for those of you who haven't read to the end of chapter 7 yet.

I'm the mother of 2 active boys and I didn't get my book till after noon on Sat., so I haven't had lots of time to read all weekend like so many of the rest of you.

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Moody uses Dumbledore's Put-Outer. I wondered this briefly when reading SS, and am wondering it again now: why a separate object to perform a specific magical task? Why not just use a wand? They don't have a separate object that replaces a flashlight, they just say Lumos and the wand's tip gives off light.

I thought, maybe it's because the Put-Outer works on a Muggle invention, the streetlight. However, then in chapter 7, there is another magical instrument used to analyze a wand. And a wand's not a muggle invention. Dumbledore's office has lots of magical objects, I'm just wondering why they would be needed instead of a wand. Any ideas, or are you all too much into major plot details to think of insignificant details like this one? (I haven't read most of the mail yet since I'm only on chapter 11.)

Melissa

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