Magic/Languages and Accidental/Wandless magic

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 116725


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
> 
>  LisaMarie wrote:
> 
>  I  remember two examples of wandless magic, both coming from 
PoA.  
> The first  occurs during the Shreiking Shack scene, when Snape 
> conjures ropes (to tie Lupin?) and then, using his non-wand 
> hand, /clicks his fingers/ and controls  the ropes, without his 
> wand.  
> snip
> > The second occurance of wandless magic is also in PoA, but much 
> earlier  and by a much more obscure character, and consequently is 
> much more  interesting to me.  In the chapter when Harry goes to 
the 
> Leaky Cauldron  (shoddy reference, sorry), the inn-keeper, 
> Tom, /clicks his fingers/ to make a  fire in Harry's room.  
> snip
> 
> Potioncat:
> There is also at least two in SS/PS.
> Quirrell hexes Harry's broom and Snape counter-hexes it. And from 
> the way it's happening, I assume no one else (characters)  
> understands what is going on.

Renee:
A third example from PoA: Lupin conjuring up 'a handful of flames' 
in his palm after the lights in the Hogwarts express have gone out. 
He doesn't pull his wand until later, when he drives the Dementor 
away, so this looks like wandless magic, too.