[HPforGrownups] Wandless magic in Chapter One

[James Sharman]

No: HPFGUIDX 82452

Kneazle:

I think magic more or less leaks out of him when he is denied the 
opportunity to use it. It may also speak to a psychological 
dependence on a wand that, at least in Harry's case, may not be as 
necessary as a wand would be to some other characters.

This is one of those situations like the Parseltongue discovery in 
CoS. I don't know how significant this is because we are not given a 
baseline to compare Harry to. There aren't that many discussions of 
what incidental/wandless magic that other characters create in the 
books. 

The only one I recall is a story about Neville getting dropped out of 
a tower and bouncing.

It *is* interesting that none of this occurs at Hogwarts. Maybe there 
are incidental magic wards around the school

James Chirps in with his 2c:

I think you are all reading too much into the wand less magic thing. The
wand seems to act as a focusing device (it is not the source of the magic,
the wizard is), with the lumos incident in PoA the wand was close by so I
don't think this tells us anything much about 'wand less' magic. 

My interpretation of the Inflating marge / bouncing Nevil / disappearing
glass type wand less magic is that the magical power when unfocused is a bit
unpredictable. The magical energy may be slightly akin to static
electricity, when unused (During early child development or a summer away
from hogwarts) the ambient charge may build up and 'earth' itself.