"Conjured" food (was Re: The Nature of Galleons)

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 118068



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> Finwitch:
> 
> Oh, what fun... but:
> 
> 1) Rich wizard families have house-elves to do all the chores.
> 
> 2) not-so-rich wizard families - like Weasleys - seem to expect 
some 
> chores in the Muggle way. No magic needed.
> 
> 3) I certainly don't see a Muggle-born wiz. kids as really needing 
> magic, they're just to do things Muggle way.
> 
> And um - I believe some, if not most of them - DO break the rule, 
> possibly get a warning note, but not much more than that. (and if 
> it's in a wizarding family, they do NOTHING, as they cannot tell 
if 
> it was the kid or the parent).

Potioncat:
Well, I have to wonder how the parents can teach them if they really 
aren't supposed to work magic.  I don't think laundry and cooking 
are taught at Hogwarts.  But I'm just as sure that JKR wasn't 
worrying about how fictional chararacters learn these things.
>

Finwich: 
> And er - it's not a rule Dumbledore made up. It's a *ministry* 
> Law/Decree! (and I'd like to face *them* up for quite a lot...) 
And I 
> do think they ought to lift the ban - it's putting Harry's life at 
> risk!

Potioncat:
Hmmm, looks like I need to polish my cannon.  That was movie 
contamination, DD saying, "I wrote quite a few bylaws myself" or 
something to that nature.
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