[HPforGrownups] Re: ps/ss chapter 5

[Alcuin York]

No: HPFGUIDX 192529

Pippin:

There are some instances where JKR's powers of invention clearly outran her ability to keep things straight. Some of them were discussed so often that they got names, like problems in geometry: The Missing 24 Hours, or The Wand Order problem.

But I don't think wandless magic is one of them.

There are examples all through the books, most prominently the animagus spell, which both Peter and Sirius  perform without a wand. 



Me (Chris):

I'm not sure that the animagus transformation is a spell. To become an animagus seems to require casting a spell (apparently a pretty complex one at that), but once that ability has been acquired, then transforming into an animal and back, as far as I can tell, doesn't require a spell, just the decision to do it (kind of like Tonks altering her appearance at will). So while it may be wandless "magic," in the broad sense, I don't see it as wandless spell-casting.

Chris