Underage magic (was: Re: Silent/Wandless Magic?)

[Rebeka Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 101559

SnapesRaven:
>> It strikes me as a very strange thing that Harry
accidentally set the snake free at the zoo (PS) and
didn't receive his first telling-off back then. <<

I guess that, by then, Harry wasn't even 'marked'
as a wizard. I mean, he was 10 years old, and it was
an outburst of magical power that every magical child
has now and then.

>> And what happens when a student is expelled from
school because of underage magic? Which future does he
face? Is there an inevitable ill-fate due to never
having learned anything correctly? Will he/she be an
outcast? - I can hardly imagine that. What good would
that do to the wizarding community? <<

I do believe s/he will be regarded as an outcast.
See Hagrid: the only reason that he has a decent job
is because of Dumbledore.

>> One more question: Severus supposedly knew (according
to Sirius) more dark spells/hexes when he first
attended Hogwarts than most of the grown-up graduates.
How come an eleven year-old is able to perform magic
without ever practising? <<

Here I wonder if Snape knew that much (Black
statements towards Snape are *always* biased). But
then, Severus could have acknowledged them, not
necessarily meaning by that he knew *how* to perform
them (remember: up til 11yo, magical children haven't
got a wand of their own).

>> And can anyone earnestly imagine Draco growing up
*without* magical training? He knew how to mount/fly a
broom, after all, and the spells he used against Harry
in the Duelling Club (CoS) were surely not on schedule
(Serpensortia for example). <<

In Draco's case, you can always count on Malfoy Sr.
to save his young a*. :)
But, at the same time, I can't quite picture Lucius
being the patient teaching type of parent. And as for
"Serpensotia", well, Draco isn't *that* stupid, he
could have read/studied from some book he got in his
home or even in Hogwarts Library itself.

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~Rebeka