Unforgivable Curses and Underage Wizardry

[Ann Crutchley]

No: HPFGUIDX 127424


> dysisgirl:
> I think we can reasonably conclude that Snape was 
> and still is good at the Dark Arts. After all, he was completely 
> immersed in his DADA OWL as we see in "Snape's Worst Memory." And 
> also, hasn't he been applying for the DADA teacher position ever 
> since we've known him? Where he learned it, well that's still a 
> mystery, unless someone out there has a good theory. 

Ann:
I think the question we haven't asked ( or maybe someone has and I
haven't read that post) Was Snape's family a good wizarding family or
bad? And was Voldemort in power then.
1- if he was from a bad family then was there really anything the
Minstry of Magic could do? Or maybe there was a way a bad wizarding
family could  be undeteced with bad magic.
2- if Volemort was in power who could really keep up?
3- Snape was a death eater at one time and I'm sure he learned a lot
of dark magic, which really makes me think his family were dark lord
supporters.

> dysisgirl: 
><snip> I'm most interested in how the Ministry 
> didn't send him a letter for Underage Wizardry.
> The Ministry uses special magic to detect when an underage wizard 
> has done magic. Yet, we see a teenager doing magic in his own 
> bedroom without any qualms. Does he know some sort of spell that 
> shields him from the special magic that the Ministry uses to detect 
> underage magic? But what bothers me even more is that the Ministry 
> doesn't have a special detector of the Unforgivable Curses <I>in 
> general</I>, and not just by underage wizards. Why can the Ministry 
> detect Underage Wizardry, which isn't more than a felony, when it 
> can't detect Unforgivable Curses? Magic is magic, isn't it? <snip>


Ann:
If the Ministry  did have ways of dectecting the unforgivable curse
then they would have known before OOP that Volemort was back. And that
would have been too easy. But I'm sure Malfoy and a few other DE
didn't want that and assured the Ministry that since Volemort was gone
that it wasn't needed.
There's a lot about Snape we don't know but I'm sure that he's from a
bad wizarding family and they used dark magic and that is how Snape
learned and did so well on his OWLS.
Ann