Wandless magic .....

[Arya]

No: HPFGUIDX 82588

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, jazmyn <jazmyn at p...> wrote:
> Ian wrote:
> > > I always assumed the magic seen here was part of the protection
> > > Harry is suppose to have at Privet Drive, i.e. Vernon was 
trying 
> > > to hurt him (well actually chocking him), so the charm kicked 
in 
> > > and he was forced to let go.
> 
> Casper:
> > I seem to recall bits and pieces of wandless magic through out the
> > stories.  Mostly around DD.  Didn't he wave his hands and change 
the
> > school banners at the end of Book 1.  Maybe that was the movie and
> > not in the canon.  I seem to at least remember thinking about 
several
> > occasions where some others had done some wandless magic.-
> 
> 
> We can also count Sirius taking his animagi form in Azkaban. This 
making 
> animagi ability more special tha just changing into a rabbit. 
Unless 
> you think the MOM is so stupid as to let him have his wand while in 
> prison.. Considering they tend to BREAK wands of lawbreakers. (see 
> Hagrid and the threats to break Harry's wand for examples)
> 
> Jazmyn

I have begun to form a theory that several of these actions occur 
(after Harry's eleven that is) perhaps not when the wand is out and 
waved nor a spell spoken, but when the wand is near or on the 
person.  My theory is that a wand _amplifies_ (with magical core) and 
helps as a focusing tool (in my mind, kind of like using ski poles 
for downhilling--you really don't need them but they help you feel 
lke you know what're doing and to balance or maybe a better analogy 
is when you learn to throw a baseball, you are taught to point your 
glove tip in the direction of your target you align your body and 
create a trained auto-focus for your control).  

So, things like the stinging (hex?) that Harry caused Vernon to feel 
(we never heard of Vernon not being able to touch Harry before he was 
eleven...think grabing hism by his hair and shoving in cupoard after 
zoo trip), Harry's being able to light his wand on the ground in the 
alleyway after the dementors made it go dark, the door to his 
_locked_ bedroom just opening of its own accord when the Advanced 
Guard comes in to Privet Dr, the "stinging hex" that Snape feels when 
Harry first combats his Legilimencing into his head---these are all 
things that happen when Harry has his wand *on* him or very near him 
(as well as, he is emotionally charged).  I think his wand may be 
acting as an amplifier (as do his emotions) for the effectualizarion 
of magic.  Even Dumbledore's 'wave of a finger' to do things could be 
simply drawing upon the wand that is in his aura and using the focus 
of his mind.  Snape also does this (waving a hand at a cabinet to 
open it or a blackboard to reveal instructions) at times. 

So,I would also say animagi are in no need of a wand (it might help 
though) but they are not looking to amplify their magic and focus it 
upon something--they are looking to *convert* and *exert* a magic 
through themselves.  This is probably a very rare ability (self-
directing magic at one's own self) and seems to be somewhat 
genetically (just like magic) inheirited.  Sirius the animagius is 
related to the only other kind of self-directed kind of magician--
Tonks the metamorphamagus.  (Hmmm, and they are both related to the 
Weasleys and the Malfoys....makes you wonder who else may be able to 
do something like this....)  We also see James the animagus with his 
son Harry who can grow his hair....the skill, whatever it is, is 
still not realized by Harry but the foreshadowing has been dropped 
and I'm positive it means something......just whether JKR will have 
time and chance in her seven-year series to work it in now seems the 
question.  Either way, we know Harry was doing the Hair growing well 
before he ever had a wand.  

Just one of my theorys...

Arya