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[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 160774

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Janette <jnferr at ...> wrote:

> > zanooda:

> > Movies aside, I think that this "underage magic" law is really 
> > unfair to Muggleborns. 


> montims:

> I, on the other hand, find it eminently sensible - an enthusiastic 
> muggle student, armed with a wand and a spellbook, could cause  
> enormous problems with a poorly conceived or performed hex or spell.
 > We have seen the kind of thing that happens in classes - if, 
> unsupervised, they get something badly wrong, what should their 
> muggle families do?
> At least if it happens to a WW student, they (or their victim) can 
> be sideapparated to St Mungo's tout de suite, or they can be 
> prevented and soundly leathered, as Arthur did when the twins tried
> to perform and UV on Ron...  If it wasn't for this law, and 
> consequent methods of detecting underage magic, where would Aunt 
> Marge be now?  (Hmmm...)


zanooda again:

Hmm, don't you think that poorly performed hex would be much more
dangerous for kids from wizard families? Underage wizards know that
magic is forbidden at home, so they won't do it in front of the
parents. No, if they really want to try this questionable hex, they'll
wait until their father is at work and their mother is on a shopping
spree in Diagon Alley :-). Then, if something happens, no one will be
there to help: the parents are not around, and the Ministry won't do
anything, because they don't know if it was a child or an adult who
did magic. At least to Muggle families  help is sent immediately, or,
as you so beautifully call it, tout de suite :-).

I also never said that the Decree for the restriction of underage
wizardry is unnecessary, I just think that it treats muggleborn kids
unfairly. Come on, threatening to expel a kid for some innocent
Hovering charm, when in wizard families children do much worse things
and everybody knows about it, but it just can't be proved?

As for Aunt Marge incident, I don't think that it would be easier to
deal with if it happened in a wizard family. This is a clear case of
uncontrolled magic (without a wand and incantation), I'm not sure that
even adults in a family would know how to help. They probably can't
use something like Finite Incantatem here, because there is no
incantation to cancel. Even Accidental Magic Reversal people couldn't
help Aunt Marge magically and she "has been punctured" (yuk!).
 
In short, I still think that law should be the same for everybody. If
the ministry could distinguish between underage and adult magic, then
kids of every background could be held responsible for "out-of-school
magic", not only muggleborns, and this would be fair. 

Au revoir!
zanooda