Harry in the Graveyard in GOF

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 150107

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jjs21theo" <jjs21theo at ...> wrote:
jjs21theo:
> 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...

Geoff:
Hi and welcome.

I think you could suggest any topic here by now and you will find that it has been looked 
at previously. :-)

There are at least two areas where this topic has been considered.

Back, on 13/08/04, I wrote in message 109949:

<quote>
Subject:  Re: Harry's Use of Cruciatus curse and why no one noticed

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kempermentor"<kempermentor at y...> wrote:
Cory:
> Another thing that bothered me almost as much, however, was how come his use of            
> Cruciatus went so unnoticed by everyone? The Ministry seems to know what Harry is
> doing 24/7; he was threatened with expulsion from Hogwarts for dumping his aunt's
>pudding in the floor, casting a Patronus to defend himself, and borrowing a flying
> car...but he casts an Unforgivable Curse inside the Ministry building and no one cares?
            
> Any thoughts?
            
> Kemper:
> Those incidents occur during summer holidays. Maybe the Deparment that's in charge
> of monitoring magic of the underage takes a well deserved rest during the school year,
> focusing mostly on the antics of those witches and wizards aged 11 and younger.

Geoff:
Back in March, a similar discussion occurred and, in message 94642, I wrote:

"The thought which occurs to me is that if the Ministry was  monitoring what was going on 
in their building (when they should have been riding over the hill to the rescue?) was 
whether they could distinguish who was throwing each spell. The air was thick with jinxes 
and spells and the young people themselves had used a lot of them: they all used a 
Reducto spell at the same moment, Hermione used Stupefy, Colloportus, Accio and 
Silencio, Neville used Expelliarmus and Stupefy while Harry used Stupefy, Petrificus Totalis, 
Colloportus, Diffindo, Protego, Wingardium Leviosa, Crucio and I may have missed some... 
Several of these were used more than once, so there was a lot of underage wizardry 
performed within a very short time scale not to mention that performed by the adults."
</quote>

This was a reply in a thread "Harry's use of the Cruciatus curse" which began at post  
109880 and became "Harry's use of the Cruciatus curse and why no one noticed?" at post 
109942.

The earlier post I quoted came from a thread "Underage magic enforcement" which began 
on 29/03/04 at message 94458 if you like to follow the threads through.