Underage Magic (was: Petunia is a *Squib*)

[Ersatz Harry]

No: HPFGUIDX 58756

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "celyse218" <cet138 at p...> wrote:
 
> But if Lily was "turning teacups into rats", she would be violating 
> the Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery, by 
> doing magic outside of Hogwarts (CoS ch 2). So either she didn't 
> really do any magic and Petunia was just making that up, or Lily 
> somehow got away with it?  Any thoughts?  Thanks all and sorry if 
> this has been dealt with earlier, I'm still quite the newbie! : )

It has been discussed before; the gist is that the emphasis should be
on "reasonable", and the main reason for the prohibition is to keep
muggles from learning about the wizarding world.  Since Petunia's
family was already aware of the WW, then it would not have been a big
deal for Lily to do this sort of minor magic, though that would
probably not have been true if the neighbors were visiting.  Even the
younger Weasleys do some magic at home (outside of Hogwarts); Ron
plays Quidditch, for example, with the necessary broom-flying magic.

Ersatz Harry