[HPforGrownups]Underage Magic

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 147590


On Friday, February 3, 2006, at 10:53 PM, chnc1024 at earthlink.net wrote:

> Chancie:
>
> This was my point, perhaps next time I should more clearly state my 
> meaning.
> I was simply pointing out that since Harry is the only person with 
> magical
> powers
> in the area, any magic preformed in the Dursley home would be 
> automatically
> blamed
> on Harry.  And since I think it's clear that Magic was preformed by 
> Author
> to
> repair the Dursley's fireplace in GOF, and

kchuplis:
Well, since Arthur got the Floo network to connect them in just for the 
afternoon as a special favor, I'm sure they were aware there was some 
other wizard there than Harry.

> Dumbledore when he visited the
> Dursley's
> in HBP it is interesting that neither of these instances resulted in 
> Harry
> being sent
> a letter from the Ministry rep remanding him for underage magic. 

kchuplis:
This is when the ministry is so darn keen on getting Harry to be their 
poster boy. They are bending over backwards at this point for him. 
Sending him cars, providing him aurors for protection. Heck, Harry 
could probably have conjured dancing girls at this point and the MoM 
would have looked the other way.  I'm sure DD dropped them an owl 
informing them he was going there.

> And not
> to mention
> the issue with Tonks packing Harry's trunk for him in OOP, (which was
> pointed out
> by another poster, sorry to say I forgot who.) and we definitely know 
> that
> the ministry
> was looking for ANYTHING to add to their list of charges when trying to
> discredit him.
> Also, it seems that if Fudge knew about magic being used in the Dursley
> home after
> trying to expel Harry from Hogwarts only a few days before, then he 
> would
> have
> added it into the trial evidence against him.  I think it would have 
> been
> very hard to
> explain who had preformed the spell, since Tonks was at risk of losing 
> her
> job if found
> to be in the order.

kchuplis:
Which is why I mentioned earlier that with so many MoM people in the 
order, I'm sure they arranged for whatever or whoever manages such 
things to be distracted or bewitched for the period of time they knew 
they'd be there. It couldn't possibly be hard to do.  It seems like it 
is some kind of general system in place.