Lily Potter's Underage Use Of Magic, why wasn't she expelled from Hogwarts? |
  Aug 11 2006, 08:31 AM
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Again, forgive me if this in the wrong place... I have a knack for starting threads in precarious places.
I am re-reading the series and I came across something that puzzled me. In PS/SS chapter 4 (?) "Keeper of the Keys" when Harry first meets Hagrid on the island and first learns he is a wizard we hear Petunia say about Harry's mother... Explaining what a freak Lily was and that she would come home on vacation from "that school" and turn tea cups into rats and oh, how proud her parents were there was a witch in the family. So Lily was performing under age magic. This means, most importantly, that whole permise that Uncle Vernon didn't know about Harry not being able to use magic @ Privet drive is false because Petunia would have known that Harry couldn't do magic away from school... unless Lily never got in trouble for doing underage magic @ her home away from school. There is an instance in one of the later books, I forget which, that Arthur or maybe DD tells Harry that the MOM can't tell who does the magic in the home, but can only tell that magic has been done. Which is why Harry got in trouble for Dobby's floating cake magic... the MOM knew magic was performed in that house & he was the only wizard @ Privet drive... so it must have been Harry doing magic according to their logic. Does that mean that there were other wizards in the Evans household when Lily & Petunia were children? We are led to believe that Lily's parents are muggles and do no magic. Some one in that house must have been a witch/wizard if Lily was getting away with underage magic...  -------------------- The Cannonball
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