Everyday Magic

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 91241

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jdr0918" <jdr0918 at h...> wrote:
> <<<--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tracy Hunt" 
> wrote:...Hermione immediately comes to mind as someone who uses 
> everyday magic quite often.  She starts fires, repairs glasses, 
> bewitches knitting needles, unlocks doors, clears footprints, etc. 
> Harry comes springing to mind as one who rarely uses everyday 
magic.  
> Is there a reason for it...
> 
> Then "potioncat" replied:...I think he also leaves the cap off the 
> toothpaste, his wet towel on the floor and his dirty clothes 
beside 
> the hamper...>>>
> 
> The Sergeant Majorette says
> Harry's a boy and Hermione's a girl. Hermione is also a teacher's 
pet 
> and a class brain. Anytime she learns anything new she's going to 
> work it to death before she adds it to her repertory. Harry, like 
Ron 
> or any other regular boy, remembers things as longs as he needs to 
in 
> order to pass the exam. Then he forgets about it until some crisis 
> brings it to the front of his mind.
> 
> --JDR

Well, that was almost going to be my point. I was going to say that 
Harry is a teenager. A teenage boy specifically. And most teenagers, 
boys and girls, oftentimes overlook simple solutions to problems 
simply because those simple solutions never occur to them. I have 
teenage siblings (and am only about six months removed from being 
one myself) and can vouch for the fact that common sense does not 
grow on trees, or in the minds of teens. 
Meri