[HPforGrownups] Re: Underage Magic....

[chnc1024 at earthlink.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 147439

> mandorino222said:
>
> > This actually bothers me a lot.  If they could detect magic, but did 
> > not know what the source of the magic was (see Dobby in book 2), 
> then 
> > how can Tonks use magic to pack Harry's trunk in OotP without the 
> > ministry detecting it and attributing it to Harry?
> > 
>
> I suspect that underage magic detection works rather like unlicensed 
> TV detector vans. <SNIP>, so you 
> are unlikely to be caught that way.
>
> In other words, the ministry can probably only detect magic use if 
> someone is actually watching your location on the under aged-magic 
> crystal ball (or whatever), so you would have to be unlucky or 
> specially targeted to be caught. It's mostly an empty threat. The 
> ministry only got Harry for it because they really wanted to get him 
> for something at that point, and so assigned someone to watch him at 
> all times.
>
> Jan


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Chancie:

While I understand your thinking Jan, I must say, I disagree.  Not until 
the OOP, was the ministry "wanting to get him for something".  Before
that time he was "The Boy Who Lived" and the ministry was certainly not
out to get him, remember what happened to him after he blew up Aunt Marge
Fudge, was just happy Sirius hadn't killed him at that point, and it was
barely 
mentioned that he had used underage magic despite the fact that the
accidental
magic reversal squad was currently at Privet drive resolving the situation.
So in
short 2 of the 3 times he was "caught" using underage magic no one was
looking 
to catch him for anything.

Chancie