[HPforGrownups] Re: Occlumency

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 191739

nikkalmati:
> As I see it, in the WW magic is hard work. In order to perform a spell 
> - for example turn oneself into a giant - someone has to do the 
> research to find the spell. Obviously not everyone is going to take 
> the chance that things won't work out i.e. remember the wizard who 
> turned himself into a buffalo by mistake? I suppose they do this sort 
> of work in the Dept. of Mysteries but the average wizard has about as 
> much chance of learning an experimental spell as I do of producing 
> stem cells in my basement.

Bart:
     However, there has been indication that there are known theories, 
and new spells can be created from existing theories. Canon in point: 
Fred & George.

     Bart