Wandless Magic (wasRe: Wands)

[Deb]

No: HPFGUIDX 141582

 >Geoff:
  
 > Moving on to the subject of Dumbledore doing wandless magic, 
(snip) 
 
> Potioncat:
 
> I can't come up with the canon but I think Snape has also 
performed 
> wandless magic, and so has Lupin. (Lupin would have been in PoA, 
with a 
> flame.) I think if a healthy DD had been wandless on the Tower, 
the DEs 
> would still have been in trouble. 
(snip)

 The major example of wandless magic IMO is  Apparation and 
Disapparation. In all the instances in all the books of this ability 
no one ever waves a wand to achieve Apparation. I think also the 
Apparation Test is the "certification" exam for wizards and witches. 
Not just a rite of passage, a coming of age experience. But *proof* 
that one is fully a wizard/witch. Because it shows that the 
individual can indeed do wandless magic and can act with 
Deliberation and Determination to achieve their Destination (ie can 
pull all elements of successful magic into play and achieve a 
specific goal through the use of magic without "props" and without 
leaving out any essential element - without splinching themselves). 
Although Harry has not yet taken his test nor graduated from 
Hogwarts, he is, again IMO,  fully a wizard now because he not only 
Apparated himself back to Hogsmead after the cave visit, he also 
brought DD back with him and Side-Along Apparation is much harder to 
do. 
  And DD at the end of CoS not only did wandless magic with his hand 
clap... it also was nonverbal as we did not hear him utter a spell 
or incantation. I think wizards/witches of DD's power can do magic 
pretty much anyway they want to.. with wand or without wand, verbal 
or nonverbal.. 
 Deb (djklaugh) who thinks DD taught Harry a whole lot more about 
the use of magic during their Pensieve journeys than Harry or anyone 
else realizes.