[HPforGrownups] Re: When did the "trace" come about?

[Meliss9900 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 176216

 
In a message dated 8/24/2007 12:10:41 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
zanooda2 at yahoo.com writes:

But,  if only underage wizards have the Trace on them, how come the 
Ministry  didn't know that it couldn't be Morfin who killed the Riddles? 
I'm sure  Morfin was older than seventeen. They should have known it was 
someone  underage who committed the murders, not Morfin, right? Ah well, 
if JKR was  ever asked about it, she'd probably say that the Trace was 
not yet  invented when LV was underage ... :-).



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Because it could have been Morfin.  All the Trace shows is that  *someone* 
did magic around an underage wizard. It doesn't reveal  the perpetrator's 
identity to the Ministry.
 
So when Riddle killed his father and grandparents the Trace would have  been 
activated but because there was a known muggle hater in the area the  Ministry 
did not look any further than Morfin.  Just as when Dobby did  magic in the 
Durlseys' home the Trace was activated and because Harry is the  only wizard in 
the Little Whingeing area the Ministry didn't look any further  into the 
violation.
 
Melissa



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