Underage Wizardry

[lyraofjordan]

No: HPFGUIDX 130320

j <happydogue at a...> wrote:
> In general housedhold life it seems as if kids would begin doing 
> chores, etc., using magic. <snip> Besides there seems to be no 
> classes at HW regarding using magic in everyday life.  It seems 
> odd that a child couldn't learn this everyday use of magic at 
> home and use it under supervision instead of waiting until he or 
> she was of age to peel carrots using magic.

  
Lyra:
Yes, to me it's one of the irritating things about the WW. They 
spend tons of time learning how to transfigure a porcupine into a 
pincushion, and many equally, basically useless other tricks, but 
Tonks (in an early OOTP chapter) admits she's never learned 
the "householdy" spells. And she knows a spell for packing Harry's 
trunk, but just barely. Now, wouldn't the packing spell be a good 
one to teach any Hogwarts kid, since they have to pack up their 
belongings and cart them off to school/home at least once each per 
year.
I guess someone needs to convince Dumbledore that "domestic magic" 
would be a useful subject. (He might realize it's a lot less dodgy 
than divination.)