[HPforGrownups] Wizards at Large

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 116229

Carol wrote:
>Your remark leads me to wonder (again) how all the wizard parents
>disguise themselves when they drop off or pick up their children a
>Platform 9 3/4. A Muggleborn or half-blood parent would know how to
>disguise him- or herself as a Muggle, but purebloods like the Weasleys
>seem somehow (despite seven kids who wear jeans and jumpers on
>occasion and despite Arthur's fascination with Muggles) not to know
>exactly how Muggles dress. And Lucius or Narcissa Malfoy might know
>how Muggles dress but would never (IMO) lower themselves to pass as
>one. So how do they hide from the Muggles at King's Cross Station?
>Does anyone think they use a "don't notice me" charm like the one
>Ffred mentions above, some variation on the Disillusionment Charm or
>something like the spell that's used to hide Hogwarts from Muggles?
>but might she put one on herself?

The answer's probably somewhere in the theory of magic. Some spells seem to
be ephemeral and just do the job they are intended to do. But others are
"sticky" and don't (apparently) have to be renewed: the one that hides
Hogwarts, the ones that keep the Burrow upright, the one that makes the
Knight Bus go, and so on.

So if you've cast a "don't notice me" on yourself, then maybe it's not
something that you ever need to renew, unless something drastic happens.

I've speculated, for example, that the reason for the devastation at
Godric's Hollow was that one of the effects (intended or otherwise) of the
protection on Harry was to short circuit _all_ magics in the vicinity.
Perhaps there are other spells that also de-magic a vicinity (for use to
clean up after magical accidents, for example...)

Cheers

Ffred

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