Snape and Dudley

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 106921

Amey Chinchorkar wrote :
> Or is it that even if the family does know about magic, even overage 
> wizards are not supposed to do it in front of them according to 
> statute? 

Del replies :
Huh, I hope not. Or at least I hope there's a special authorisation
for those people who marry Muggles (rare, I know), or simply for the
Muggle-borns (much more common). Can you imagine inviting your Muggle
parents or in-laws in your home where everything is run by magic, and
yet having to restrain from using it ? That would be very hard,
especially since you couldn't even use electricity as a temporary
replacement.

Amey wrote :
> As for Gred and Forge (I love these names) giving Dudders the 
> ten-toungue toffee it was more misuse of muggle artifacts (or not 
> even *muggle* as wizards also have them).

Del replies :
As you say, those toffees weren't Muggle, they were wizard-made. But I
guess that technically Gred and Forge could have earned a reprimand,
for leaving a magical object within the reach of Muggles. What if one
of them had rolled somewhere where Dudley didn't find it, but the
little son of the next potential client of Vernon found it ? Highly
unlikely given Aunt Petunia's maniacal cleaning, but I hope you get my
point.

Del, who wonders if all the electrical objects go bonkers each time
someone magical visits Mrs Figg, and who hopes that the disturbances
don't reach her neighbours' homes :-)