[HPforGrownups] Jump or Flight- was snape:rope from his hands.

[Pat and Jim Gruenke]

No: HPFGUIDX 57860

Valky wrote:


> But all he tried to do  was jump behind the big
> bins outside the kitchen doors. Harry supposed that the wind must
> have caught him in mid-jump." <snip>
>
>> So, I put it to all. Which magic do you suppose he performed with
>> such relative ease? Unassisted Flight or Apparating?
>>
Pat writes:

First of all, thanks for thinking of something new!  The whole time
travel thing makes my head swim.

I don't think he flew.  Isn't there something in canon that states they
haven't figured out how to do that?  Levitate, yes, but not fly.
Otherwise, why bother with brooms?

I also don't think he apparated.  That's a tricky bit of magic, and I
don't think it would happen spontaneously.

So, my theory?  It was a magically big, fast jump.  (Think Superman,
tall buildings in a single bound.)  I think it was the Muggle equivalent
of picking a car up off your child.  You don't think, you just do it.
Also, rather like Neville bouncing after his uncle dropped him.  People
can bounce, just not that way!  People can jump, just not that high.

Pat.  --sorry Darrin, but Boomslang is taken for a band name!



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