Under age magic - just wondering?

[bboyminn]

No: HPFGUIDX 188299



--- "jelly92784" <jelly92784 at ...> wrote:
>
> AJM:
> Why did the Dursleys seem totally ignorant of the fact that Harry was not allowed to perform magic outside school until he got his warning letter from the Ministry when Dobby performed magic in the Dursley's kitchen?
> 
> Janelle:
> It is possible that the restriction on underage magic wasn't always in place.  Maybe it used to be allowed, but then too many accidents and problems resulted from underage wizards and the Ministry decided to enact the ban.
>

bboyminn:

Remember that Hermione also said she performed magic, but 
neither her place nor Petunia/Lily's place is monitored as 
closely as Harry/Dursley's is.

Also, a vast majority of students have not real contact or
connection with the Ministry. Harry is very much on their
radar screen from the minute he enters the wizard world, and
given the amount of trouble he manages to get into, perhaps
rightly so. 

Now, it is possible Lily performed underage magic and got
a letter from the Ministy warning her about it. Or, perhaps
the owl came to her parents. But that letter arriving doesn't
mean that Petunia knew about it. 

It is clear that Petunia has had a immense change of attitude,
from wanting to go to Hogwarts, to thinking the place and
everyone in it was a freak show. So, perhaps Lily's parents
kept Petunia out of the loop to keep from upsetting her. 

We really don't know if anything happened, and if something
did happen, we don't know what the results were. It is all
speculation on our part. 

It is possible that Lily did do magic, and may have even
gotten a warning or two about it. But Harry is monitored
a lot more closely than the rest of the young wizard world.
For the most part, in magical households, where magic is
happening all the time, the Ministry leaves it up to the 
parents to monitor (according to JKR). 

So, for the Ministry to take action for magic performed in 
most cases, that magic would have to be pretty significant.
It would have to be enough to cause some type of incident
that would get the attention of the Ministry. 

So, if we assume Lily did perform magic, then there is some
likelihood that she got a warning for it, but only a 
likelihood, not a certainty.

Steve/bboyminn