Underage Magic during war & at the MoM (was Learning Apparition)

[Arya]

No: HPFGUIDX 93588

 "dorapye" <helenhorsley at h...> wrote:
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> At the end of OotP we see no repercussions for this law-breaking, 
> which presumably mean that, with Fudge forced into an embarrassing 
> retraction of his previous assertion about Lord Thingy, DD managed 
> to negotiate the dropping of any charges against his students.
> 
> Is it possible that with Fudge's admission to the WW the LV is 
> indeed back, DD has also managed to negotiate a slackening of the 
> RoUM law for Harry, since it is clear that his life is in constant 
> threat from LV now? A kind of no-questions-asked and no-sanctions-
> applied situation should Harry use magic outside of Hogwarts, during 
> that summer..?
> 
> This could then signal a general loosening of the Ministry laws with 
> regards to Harry in particular, but perhaps also other Hogwarts 
> students, as DD prepares him for battle.  If this is the case, I'm 
> sure, as many people have suggested, that Apparition laws would be 
> amongst thtose that DD, and the Ministry, would choose to ignore, 
> for Harry's sake.
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First off, I agree with you in the assessment that with Volde back and fully 
acknowledged, the MoM will have its hands full with dealing with the war and 
not have time or resources to so stringently enforce the Decree for UAM.  In 
fact, I tend to think that if they loosen that law, then Fudge can be seen as 
being accomodating, and increase some of the general public's feeling of 
being better allowed to defend themselves.  So a lessening of the law or 
temporary lift for some students (probably age dependant--perhaps, those 
who've completed OWLS or such)would free up some MoM resources and be 
seen as enabling the public to be better prepared--an all around political 
Good Move.

However, on the subject of the kids violoating the Decree for UAM while at 
the MoM--I disagree.  Perhaps whatever means is used to monitor/enforce 
this restriction is not actice while the kids are believed to be at school or that 
the Ministry simply isn't monitored becuase who would break the law rightin 
the Ministry itself?  But I do NOT believe they set off any alarms.  Nope--if 
they did, then we already know how those UAM detectors work, don't we?  
They record the spell that was cast.  Which would mean there was/is a record 
of Harry casting the Cruciatus (it did work to some degree--just not enough to 
totally work against the cruicio expert Bella--I think even this 'partial' spell 
would be enough to register as a spell).  I do think we'll see some sort or 
repercussion from Harry's attempted use of this, perhaps no more than 
Harry's own remorse and astonishment that he used it, but something at 
least.  But I doubt if Fudge had that knowledge, that he wouldn't use it to 
make some noise.  

In fact, I go back to support my belief that they're not monitored at all while 
they are supposedly in school because in GoF, if Harry's use of the 
Disarming Charm, Summoning Charm and any other spells he cast while 
escaping from the graveyard set off an UAM alarm then Mafalda Hopkirk 
could have helped to support Harry's story of Volde's return.  ("Yes, Minister, 
he cast a Disarming Charm, an Impediment Jinx and then a Summoning 
Charm in a cemetary in the middle of Little Hangleton.")    Oh, and in PoA, 
any spells cast while the kids were in the Shreiking Shack would have set off 
the UAM detector--they were in Hogsmeade, not Hogwarts at that time.  

Arya