Underage magic enforcement

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 94642

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rhabenh" <rhobbs at i...> wrote:

Robin:
> The Weasley boys explained how they could fly the car and not get in
> trouble with MoM.  They didn't enchant the car, it is okay to use
> things that others have enchanted, they just can't do it themselves.
> 
> My question is why wasn't Harry punished for what he did in MoM to
> Bellatrix at the end of OotP?  Anyone got any theories?  

Geoff:
The thought which occurs to me is that if the Ministry was monitoring 
what was going on in their building (when they should have been 
riding over the hill to the rescue?) was whether they could 
distinguish who was throwing each spell. The air was thick with 
jinxes and spells and the young people themselves had used a lot of 
them: they all used a Reducto spell at the same moment, Hermione used 
Stupefy, Colloportus, Accio and Silencio, Neville used Expelliarmus 
and Stupefy while Harry used Stupefy, Petrificus Totalis, 
Colloportus, Diffindo, Protego, Wingardium Leviosa, Crucio and I may 
have missed some... Several of these were used more than once, so 
there was a lot of underage wizardy performed within a very short 
time scale not to mention that performed by the adults.