[HPforGrownups] Digest Number 2761

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 57093

> Katy states;
> 
> Well, this is just further proof of the theory that the magical restriction 
> of underage wizards is, indeed, a crock - something that a DE set up to 
> scare Harry into not using Magic outside of Hogwarts. I'm not sure who came 
> up with the theory - i simply remember it being mentioned a few weeks back, 
> and it made perfect sense to me.
> 
I don't think they had Death Eaters in 1875, which is when the reasonable 
restriction of magic by underage wizards was adopted. (Source; Mafalda 
Hopkirk's warning letter.) Unless Voldemort took over a pre-existing 
organization and put his own stamp on it.

What's more, I think that the reasonable restrictions are not that an 
underage wizard cannot use magic at all under any circumstances, but that he 
*ought* not use it if he can help it, and that he *cannot* use it without 
supervision and *cannot* use it around Muggles. But that the MoM only gets 
into the act if a complaint is registered, and Dobby registered a complaint 
as soon as he vanished.

It wasn't until the following summer that the Ministry started actually 
monitoring the site and caught the Aunt Marge incident. (I think someone may 
have made some discreet mention of the Dursley's reaction to the hover charm 
and the monitoring was set up to both catch other outbreaks and to minimise 
the damage.) The site is unlikely to have been being monitored earlier than 
PoA or something would have been done about some of Harry's other spectacular 
"breakthroughs". 

The regulation has been on the books for over a century, but everyone knows 
about it and those who want to can abuse it.

-JOdel


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