Extraordinary magic in the climax

[ebeth0000000000]

No: HPFGUIDX 132761

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "davenclaw" <daveshardell at y...> 
wrote:
Has anyone else noticed that the climax/resolutions of the books 
> generally seem to involved magic that goes beyond anything else we 
> see in the books?
SNIP
> It's pretty neat stuff, but I confess that my initial reaction to 
> some of these things was that it was a bit over the top to have a 
> hopeless situation end up being resolved using magic that was barely 
> hinted at in the books, if at all.  Did anyone else have this 
> reaction?  I think I was rolling my eyes particularly at the way the 
> Stone ended up in Harry's pocket. 

I must respectfully disagree, davenclaw, at least about the PS/SS.  

The books show us characters regularly conjuring and vanishing 
objects, in fact, it seems to be a normal occurrence in the HPverse.  

My theory was always that the mirror was bewitched to conjure the 
stone as an automatic function (rather like my computer has one-click 
shopping at Amazon!) and that the conjuring would only occur after the 
mirror determined, using some form of what we now know in the WW is 
legimency, that the person using the mirror only wanted to FIND the 
stone, not USE it.

Seems pretty straightforward to me, and also in keeping with the rules 
JKR has set up for her own universe.

EB