Wandless Magic (wasRe: Wands)

[truthbeauty1]

No: HPFGUIDX 141604

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Deb" <djklaugh at c...> wrote:
> 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 <snip>  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... <snip>  


I definitely see what you are saying here. However, do you think
that maybe all this can be seen as magic as it pertains to an
individual's own body? To use another example, McGonagall can
transfigure into a cat without a wand, and the animagi can do the
same. But when McGonagall transforms anything else, she uses a
wand.

In the Ministry of Magic scene in O.O.T.P, Dumbledore, who is the
greatest wizard in the books and a specialist in Transfiguration,
has to use his wand to transfigure the statues. In fact, we never
see a real battle without the use of wands. I believe that the
wands act as a kind of medium, channeling the magic of a wizard to 
forces outside of him or her. I simply cannot think of any curse or
countercurse that is not shown with wand use in these books. I
definitely think that if wands were not needed in magic battles, D.D
and L.V would have shown us that in their battle.

  
truthbeauty1