[HPforGrownups] Re: Is Petunia magical?/Mrs. Figg

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 160381

On 10/25/06, Michael Perry <mperry at efn.org> wrote:
> I should imagine that Hogwarts is protected by various spells... including
> being Unmappable.

Actually - I think it's stated that the other two schools are
unplottable but Hogwarts is not. (though, we've never seen anyone try
to put anything on a map, which failure is the only stated effect of
unplottable, and thus the only way of knowing something is unplottable
other than being told directly)

> I should assume, if a person (non-magical) somehow found
> their way there and saw it, it would look like a ruin. (I seem to recall
> that, also.)

Right. from the outside, from a distance, and with a strong suggestion
not to approach closer. There's no reason to think that if they were
brought onto the grounds they wouldn't then be "inside" the illusion,
and able to function as normally as Filch can.

> There are magical things that even Muggles can see... but they ignore them.

Actually - the only person who actually says that is Stan Shunpike -
who isn't exactly the most educated person in the series. Vernon
doesn't seem to have a problem noticing all kinds of things on 31 Oct
1981, certainly.

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Random832