[HPforGrownups] Hagrid and Magic

[Donna]

No: HPFGUIDX 132241

 
 
smilingator wrote:

<< snip >> More likely though, I think JKR may have made a blooper. I mean,
if it's okay for him to TEACH at a school for wizards, I would think it'd be
okay for him to use a little magic!  << snip >>


Donna says:
 
I hope I'm not mixing movie with canon and my books aren't handy to look
this up 
but I'm thinking that in CoS there's a scene where Hagrid is telling Harry
that
he is going to see DD about permission to put a charm around the chicken
coop because
something is killing the chickens.  If I am remembering correctly and not
mixing 
sources up, then this indicates that Hagrid can, with permission, to magic.



smilingator wrote:  

<< snip >> What always struck me odd about this was that Harry received 
a letter accusing him of using the Hover charm in CoS when it was in 
fact Dobby. It seemed to me that the owl mail system (which could find 
Harry wherever he was at the beginning of SS/PS) is much more accurate 
than the MoM and its monitoring of underage magic. << snip >>

Donna says:

My thinking about Harry being credited for the Hover charm and not Dobby
is because Harry is the only one on Privet Dr. with magical abilities and
the WW seems to feel that house elves do not leave their master's place
unless told to do so thus, there was no reason to suspect anyone but Harry
for performing the charm.

Donna

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