MoM detecting underage magic - Harry in the Graveyard in GOF

[Victoria Scott]

No: HPFGUIDX 150091

"jjs21theo" <jjs21theo at ...> wrote:
> > 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? 

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Annemehr:
> 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.

> 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.


G.C. Adds:
It is also explained in one of the later books that the ministry of 
Magic has tabs on where magic is being performed. They also have 
tabs on how old each wizard/witch is. So therefore Harry got in 
trouble because he is the only wizard in his area/house so if magic 
is performed they know it would be illegal because they know he is 
underage. In the cases that Annemehr brought up, the Weasleys' family 
home would be under the names of their parents who are fully grown, 
therefore the Ministry wouldn't know who performed the magic, and 
also at the Tree Broomsticks it is under Madam Rosmeta's name so 
since she is of age, they can't detect who performed the magic.

So I think you are right in suspecting somehow that the ministry 
should have realised about Harry at the graveyard, but since there 
was such a number of age wizards there it may not have been 
detected??

I hope that helps
G.C