[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry in the Graveyard in GOF

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 150076


On Mar 26, 2006, at 1:52 PM, annemehr wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jjs21theo" <jjs21theo at ...>  
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone!  This is my first time posting here.  I wonder if  
> anyone
> > has posted this question:  When Harry was in the Graveyard he was
> > outside of school.  Why wasn't the ministry aware that he was
> > performing magic and why didn't they respond as they had in the  
> past?
> > Just curious.  I'd love to hear your thoughts and theories...
> >
> > jjs21theo.
> >
>
> Hi back. :)
>
> I explain things like this to myself this way: the Ministry has a rule
> that students are not allowed to perform magic outside of school, but
> they don't actually have a way to monitor what every student does.
>
> In the case of students with at least one magical parent, I guess that
> it is left up to the parent(s) to enforce the rule -- which is
> probably what allowed Fred and George to do so much at home to start
> up Weasley's Wizard Wheezes.  It's probably only the Muggleborns like
> Hermione whose homes or neighborhoods are monitored at all.  Harry is
> most likely a special case and receives extra attention.
>
> So, to get back to your question -- I don't think the MoM knew that
> Harry Potter was involved in doing any magic in the graveyard at all.
> Nor did they catch Hermione doing Mobiliarbus in the Three
> Broomsticks in PoA.
>
> Annemehr
>

kchuplis:

I would also expect that the use in Little Whinging sets off alarms  
1) BECAUSE harry lives there and 2) close concentration of muggles.  
The graveyard appears to be rather between two towns and with out any  
muggles alarmingly in the immediate vacinity.