[HPforGrownups] Re: Voldemort's Intentions & Snape's Expectations

[Shelley]

No: HPFGUIDX 189820

On 11/30/2010 1:30 PM, e2fanbev wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Shelley<k12listmomma at ...>  wrote:
>> About the flying without a broom idea- watch the progress made in
>> sports. Often, there is a standard like the 4 minute mile that is
>> considered a limitation, until someone breaks it. Then, everyone is
>> shooting for that new level or skill, because it's been "proven" to be
>> possible. It's people's minds that hold them back, and I wouldn't be
>> surprised to see the following year a handful of Hogwarts children doing
>> this stunt, as if it were possible all along. Adults are shocked by it,
>> but the kids would just accept that it IS POSSIBLE, and therefore, they
>> just need to figure out how to do it too!
>>
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> Bev:
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> A long time ago I posted the suggestion that Lily had the ability to fly without a broom. In the playground scene when she first meets young Snape she is demonstrating for Petunia her ability to keep herself airborne- without a wand- and land gently. I was told rather dismissively that I was reading too much into "baby magic." Well, any talent whether magical or not has to start somewhere. I still believe Lily had a natural ability to do it. Think of what she could have done with a wand. Why else would JKR mention it in the same story where two others demonstrate the abilty?
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> Going back to lurkdom,
> Bev
Shelley:
I think you are right, with some slight modification. I think she had 
what she had developed was a form of "feather fall", where she slowed 
her decent. I think it may be a precursor to the flying without a wand, 
because it's more like gliding downward. Notice she did it from a swing, 
which is quite different from starting low and climbing in elevation. 
But, with practice and without any sort of "no, that's not how it's 
done" discouragement, yes, I think she could have been doing that same 
thing.

I will disagree strongly with what you said though about a "wand"- 
notice all the kids are doing magic without wands before they get to 
school. When they get to school, they are told they "need" wands. I can 
just imagine what they could do wandless if they were never taught to 
use a wand, but instead were told that they alone were magical. I agree 
that it's not "baby magic", but just magic uncomplicated by adult rules 
of how it should be.