Wandless Magic (wasRe: Wands)

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No: HPFGUIDX 141624

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, MadameSSnape at a... wrote:
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> In a message dated 10/13/2005 1:59:33 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> willsonkmom at m... writes:
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> 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.)
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> Sherrie here:
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> I don't have the book with me, but it was on the train - he 
conjures up a  
> glowing fire in his hand.  I'm also a fan of the Deryni books, so I 
thought  at 
> once, "Oh!  Handfire!"  That's the last we've heard of such a  
talent, though.
>  
> Sherrie
> 
I've often wondered why everybody insists on using a wand instead of 
their index finger. (Or even their middle finger, in certain 
contexts.) I suppose it's useful to the author to equip Our Hero with 
an implement of which he can be deprived with a timely hex, but it 
does seem awfully clumsy and one has to lug the darned thing around 
with one, and it ties up one's hand, and it's always in your pocket 
when you heed it, and people keep dropping them...Well, you see what 
I mean.

I read somewhere, perhaps on this list, a suggestion to the inept 
that they attach their wand to their wrist with a length of elastic. 
Sounded sensible to me.

Gatta