Unforgivable Curses and Underage Wizardry

[deeblegirl]

No: HPFGUIDX 127414



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Dysis" <d.marchel at c...> wrote:

> Assuming 
> that it <i>is</i> Snape, and that he is using the Killing Curse as a 
> teenager, we have to wonder (1) where he learned it, (2) how 
> powerful he must have been, and (3) why was a teenage kid using an 
> Unforgivable Curse when he knew full well that the Ministry had and 
> Underage Wizarding Policy.


I suspect that the underage wizarding detection charm (assuming it is
a charm) can only detect the use of magic, not the age of the user -- 
which means it's only good for monitoring Muggle-born students. Any 
young witch or wizard living with parents who are also magical would be 
able to get away with a lot at home.

Think Fred and George ...

(... and, of course, of the fact that Harry was blamed for Dobby's magic
in "Chamber of Secrets.")

Deeble, who hopes this moderated post appears before a dozen other
people say the same thing