[HPforGrownups] What are the WW rules?

[annegirl11 at juno.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 113892

James said:
>I'm thinking that
> when we see someone "conjuring" something, that they're not 
> actually making the item out of thin air, but are transporting it from 
> another location. For example, in CoS when McGonagall conjured a plate
of
> sandwiches for Harry and Ron, she was moving the sandwiches from
> somewhere in the kitchens 

This is a serious fanwank, but maybe it has to do with laws of nature, ie
energy and matter can't be created or destroyed, only changed. You can
rearrange a rat's atoms (or the magical equivalent thereof) into a
teapot, but you can't draw the atoms out of nothing and put them together
into a teapot. Or maybe you can, but only if you're a very powerful
wizard. 

>(This would assume that Dumbledore "conjuring"
> chairs is something different from McGonagall "conjuring" plates of
> sandwiches - if they are the same it means that "conjuring" and
> "vanishing" is (I suppose) just moving things around ).

Or maybe DD is a good enough wizard to reliably conjur chairs. (Or maybe,
in that instance, he only conjured them from the storage closet.) For
most adverage, run-of-the-mill wizards, attempting to conjur things out
of nothing is too difficult and too unreliable to be bothered with. Best
to just buy them.

We were talking about magic and the economy, and I wonder how the "accio"
charm affects shoplifting! You could stand behind a shop and "accio"
anything you wanted. If the clerk's back was turned, he wouldn't notice
it fly out of his shop. Maybe stores have anti-theft wards put around
them. Maybe you can't do magic at all in a shop, lest someone transfigure
a Nimbus 2001 into, say, a knut and simply carry it out in their pocket.

>but few people have the skill to wave their
>wand and have a meal turn out exactly like they want it. But I rather
>doubt that myself.

Why doubt it? If magic were easy, they wouldn't need a school for it. 

Aura

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