[HPforGrownups] Re: Under age magic - just wondering?

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 188302

justcarol67 wrote:
> That said, I suspect that she did perform a bit of magic at home, showing off a little and making her parents "proud to have a witch in the family" (and increasing Petunia's jealousy), but she probably didn't receive more than a reminder of the restriction against underage magic (and, possibly, the Statute of Secrecy, though it was irrelevant in her case since her family already knew about magic and Hogwarts).
>   

Bart:
    Frankly, I think the underage magic prohibition falls apart under 
any close examination. Here are just SOME of my questions:

1) How are young wizards and witches supposed to keep their skills up?
2) Since the Ministry can't tell who is doing the spell, it means that 
kids in Wizarding families can do as much magic as their parents allow, 
while kids in Muggle families can't do magic at all. Yet, the muggleborn 
don't seem to be at any sort of disadvantage during the school year.
3) This kind of makes going to Hogwarts mandatory for British 
schoolchildren; homeschooling is out. So there is none of this matter of 
choice in accepting Hogwarts.

       Bart