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

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 58938

> --- 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! : )

Well, Lily might have done it - to practise for school. Then again, 
she might have used Muggle charlatanism, not real magic... rat being 
under the teacup, which she then hid somewhere (a magical object 
bigger from inside helping her a bit here). Only Petunia realised 
what she was _really_ doing... 

Hmm... Maybe Harry'll find his mother's muggle-magic books & items 
somewhere? And perhaps some letters from her in another deparment of 
a 7-lock trunk - or a key to a vault where they are - along with 
family album about baby Harry and things like that?

-- Finwitch