Lily and Magic outside of school (was Fudge/Transfer of Power/Lily's Family)

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 107871

> DuffyPoo now:
> > > I don't think so.  I think, if she truly had done magic at 
home 
> > > in vacation, and it wasn't just Petunia's ranting, then the 
rule 
> > > must have been changed at some point between her time at 
Hogwarts 
> > > and Harry's.  

  
> Meltowne:
> > It's in there - Dumbledore makes a comment that he didn't agree 
> > with the underage restrictions, I think in a conversation with 
> > Fudge.  This would suggest that Fudge was involved in that 
> > decision, and that it happened after he become minister - after 
LV 
> > fell, and thus after Lily left Hogwarts.

> 
> SSSusan:
> Ooooh, that's interesting.  Meltowne (or another HPfGUer), could 
you 
> provide the reference for this?  I'd love to go read it, but it's 
not 
> ringing a bell.


Jen: I don't know about Meltowne's quote, but at the hearing in 
OOTP, Fudge says the Decree for the Reasonable Restrcition of 
Underage Wizardry was from 1875 (chap. 8, p. 140 US). This is 
consistent with COS which says the same thing, in the letter Harry 
got after Dobby's Hover Charm. They keep referring to the Statute of 
Secrecy too, but don't give a date. 

Of course, Dumbledore would have been alive in 1875, so he may have 
opposed it back then!