HP's powers

[arrowsmithbt]

No: HPFGUIDX 113051

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "greatelderone" <greatelderone at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
> <arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> > > GEO: But they do. We know Weasley bought one and charmed his and 
> > > that the Ministry of Magic even have their own fleet of cars, 
> which 
> > > they lend out.
> > 
> > And so your contention is that the Ministry cars which, like the 
> Knight
> > Bus avoid all obstacles, can be involved in crashes?
> > How interesting.
> 
> GEO: And how did you come to flawed conclusion that all wizard cars 
> are like the Knight Bus or the Ministry Cars? Weasley's car for one 
> didn't seem to possesse the same characteristics.

Flawed conclusion? IMO the flawed conclusion is assuming that
the WW abounds with Arthur Weasleys cobbling together enchanted
Muggle artifacts.  

Almost certainly it's a one-off. Even Arthur had never flown in it:-
"There's a loophole in the law, you'll find....as long as he wasn't
intending to fly the car, the fact that the car could fly wouldn't..."
And later he's most interested to find out if it went all right.
Only someone as Muggle-fixated as Arthur would bother taking
a 'real' car to bits and enchanting it.
 
Kneasy