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

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 107901

Amey:
> > > "This solves the mystery how Lily could easily do magic at home 
> > > in vacation, if her family was magic."
 
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."


DuffyPoo again.

I've spent half the afternoon looking for it and can't find any reference to that item above.  Doesn't mean it's not there....I've been racking my brains for conversations between Fudge and DD and looking them up frantically.  

What I was trying to say, originally, and apparently didn't make myself clear, is that Lily having magical parents (if, indeed, she did) doesn't mean she could have done magic at home on holidays from school.  *Unless* the current rules that are in place now were not in place when she and James were at Hogwarts.  Now, at least for as long as Harry & Co, and probably the two previous years that F&G have been at Hogwarts, the students are specifically told they *cannot* do magic during the holidays.  Fred wishes they would forget to give them the note at the end of the summer term. 'I always hope they'll forget to give us these,' said Fred Weasley sadly.  This was in his third year so I can only presume that *always* means the two previous years he was at Hogwarts.

As for when Fudge became MoM, according to a Quibbler article Harry read on the Hogwarts Express in OotP, "Cornelius Fudge...when he was *elected* Minister for Magic *five* years ago."  Whether that can be taken as fact is anybody's guess considering the type of articles that are in the Quibbler.  However, if I was a witch reading the Quibbler, and I saw "five years ago" and knew myself it had been 10 years ago, or 12, that would make me skeptical of the quality of their articles, even if I did believe every word they wrote otherwise - even the stuff about the Crumple Horned Snorkack.  A verifiable fact would be hard to *fudge* (sorry) even in a magazine of this quality.

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