Hermione doing magic

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 167843

Tandra:

> >  Did anyone else notice this or is it just me? 
> > And didn't she also mention practicing magic once she 
> > got her letter and then books in the first book?

zanooda:

> Hermione did mention practicing spells before going 
> to school in SS/PS. I personally think that they don't 
> punish Muggleborn children for this, because they (the 
> children) don't know that it's forbidden, as they haven't 
> been to Hogwarts yet. After all, they did accidental 
> magic all their lives, not knowing what it was.
> [...]
> As for doing magic on the Hogwarts Express, it seems to 
> be allowed, at least we see it happen rather often (I 
> don't want to give examples and spoil your rereading for 
> you :-)). I think the students are considered at school 
> from the moment they get on the train.

houyhnhnm:

Hermione didn't speak of *practicing* magic when she first 
met Harry and Ron on the train.  What she said was "I've 
learned all our course books by heart, of course. . . . I
got a few extra books for background reading."  She may 
have spoken of using magic outside of school somewhere else, 
though, and I don't remember it.

Neither can I remember if use of magic on the train is 
formally proscibed or not, but I would think that the 
Hogwarts Express and Diagon Alley (as well as school 
corridors, where the use of magic is also "forbidden") 
are places where it is pretty safe to get off an illegal 
spell because there is so much magic going on it would be 
hard to pin it on any one person.   HRH and friends, as 
well as Draco and his cronies, get off many hexes on the 
train and jinxing is always going on in the hallways at 
Hogwarts.  In these places, unless you do magic right in 
front of an adult, you can feel fairly secure of getting 
away with it.  Strict enforcement of the Statute for the 
Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery is pretty much 
impossible where you have so many young witches and wizards 
gathered together (along with adult wizards who are allowed 
to do magic).