Silent/Wandless Magic? (was Re: Has Trelawney Done Anything Magical?)

[Jason]

No: HPFGUIDX 101637

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Trevor" <trevor-weiland at c...> 
wrote:
> I believe I read somewhere that magic is possible silent and 
wandless-
> obviously look what Harry did to Aunt Marge, to the snake in the 
zoo,
> finding himself on roofs- but it less focused.  A really good 
wizard/witch
> is degraded by being silent/wandless but sometimes that doesn't 
seem to
> impinge the outcome.  In the DD vs VM scenes neither seem to use 
audible
> spells.  Perhaps well trained wizards and witches merely have to 
think the
> incantation.
> 
>  
> 
> Trevor

The way I see it is sort of like learning math. At first you have to 
concentrate on what you're doing. You have to learn to add, first by 
counting on your fingers, then adding bigger numbers with pencil and 
paper. You learn more complicated math as your education continues. 
By the time you reach the end of your education, you no longer need 
pencils and paper for easier math problems. You know that one plus 
one is two and 5 times 5 is 25, that the square root of 144 is 12. 
You simply need to look at problems like 7x = 23 + 5 and know that X 
= 4.

I believe magic would work in sort of the same way. For simpler 
spells all that is needed is a little focus and voila, you get the 
smae results as using a wand. For more complicated spells, Harry 
would of course still need to "work the problem out" to get his 
desired results and thus need a wand.

The two most powerful wizards in ther world, DD and Voldy, likely 
would be like those people who can see a complex problem on a 
blackboard and know the answer before the rest of us could pull out 
our calculators. They can accomplish far more complex magic without 
a wand.

As for more complex things like blowing up Marge with no wand, I 
liken that to seeing a math problem and knowing the answer, but not 
how to do the work. Does that make sense? 

Of course al this is magic and not math but, thats how I tend to 
view it.

Jason