Detecting the Underage use of Magic - You Asked!

[oogems7]

No: HPFGUIDX 97235

bboy_mn wrote:

> Detection of Magic-
> 
> Have you ever seen 'lightening strike' radar on the 
> television weather report?
> 
> The lightening strikes usually show up as little '+' 
> (plus) signs, and as the lightening radar is played 
> forward through a span of time, we see the accumulation 
> of lightening strikes in our weather area. Hold that 
> thought.
> 
> Now let's look at standard weather radar, where various 
> density of weather phenomenon show up as various colors 
> depending on the intensity. Pale blues and pale greens 
> represent mild rain showers. As the color moves through 
> yellow toward oranges and reds, the storm become more intense. 
> Dark red usually represents severe thunder storms, perhaps 
> even tornados. 
> 
> I think a combination of these two represents the way magic 
> is monitored, it is both event driven similar to lighten 
> radar, and intensity driven similar to storm radar.

The problem with that theory is the graveyard incident, in GoF, 
combined with what appeared to be OotP members using pretty large 
amounts of magic when they were picking Harry up in OotP.  

Of course there was Mr. Weasley in GoF, picking up Harry, but that 
can be explained away as everyone know he was going to be their at 
that time, also as mentioned by someone else, only aurors used magic 
when they were picking up Harry in OotP, but when they were watching 
Harry, they were apparating back and forth.  So it appears that a 
rather large number of people know how to block this this magic 
rader.

That theory also doesn't really work, because of the war.  Big V, 
would never leave himself in such a weak situation, assuming he 
knows how to fight a war.  Their is also the fact that if the 
minsitry knows how to do it, pretty much everyone with five minutes 
of time can find out how.

I personally support the 'location' theory.  That they can monitor 
only specific locations.

OOgems7, who at 340 in the morning no longer remembers the English 
language.