New Member and question

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 160715

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

> Stacey:
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> One thing that has perplexed me for sometime is the issue of 
> underage  wizards performing magic outside of Hogwarts.  Doesn't 
> Hermione say she's tried some spells with success on the Hogwarts 
> Express in Book 1?

zanooda:

Don't forget Harry and Co. hexing Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle on the
Hogwarts express at the end of GoF, Harry and DA members hexing them
on the train at the end of OotP, and Draco Malfoy using "Petrificus
Totalus" on Harry at the beginning of HBP on the Hogwarts Express. It
seems that the students are allowed to do magic on the train. It's not
very clear though if Hermione tried her spells on the train or before.


> Stacey:
  
> She performs "Oculus Reparo" on
> the Hogwarts Express and in Diagon Alley.  And doesn't Harry
> practice "Lumos Maxima" at the Dursley's?

zanooda:

"Oculus Reparo" is from the movies, there is no such a spell in the
books at all. In Diagon Alley (CoS) it was Arthur Weasley who repaired
 Harry's glasses. Same goes for "Lumos Maxima".

Movies aside, I think that this "underage magic" law is really unfair
to Muggleborns. Kids from wizard or mixed families can do magic at
least sometimes, when the parents are not looking, and no one will
find out. I really doubt that Molly Weasley knows what Fred and George
do every minute of the day (and nigth)during holidays :-)

Sorry if others already answered you, Stacey, I'm very very much
behind in the reading and just got to your post tonight.


zanooda, who is struggling with her "bouncing account" right now ;-(
and who is not sure that it's possible to post  while "bouncing", but
still wants to try.