Khác biệt giữa bản sửa đổi của “Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Underage Sorcery”
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One must wonder, though, about the accuracy of the Trace. There is no apparent notice of Aunt Marge's glass magically shattering, or of the lock of the cabinet under the stairs magically opening as Harry leaves [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Privet Drive|Privet Drive]]. There is no apparent notice of all the magic occurring in Harry's vicinity when he is at [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/The Burrow|the Burrow]], [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Grimmauld Place|Grimmauld Place]], or in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Diagon Alley|Diagon Alley]]. There is no notice of the magic occurring in his vicinity when he is being visited by [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Arthur Weasley|Arthur Weasley]], the Advance Guard, or [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Albus Dumbledore|Professor Dumbledore]] at Privet Drive, or when [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Rubeus Hagrid|Hagrid]] is taking him off the island and back to shore in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Philosopher's Stone|the first book]]. If we assume that the Trace can detect an adult wizard, and damp its responses accordingly, then the only unexplained situations are the shattering wineglass and the opening cupboard during Aunt Marge's stay at Privet Drive, and possibly the summoning of the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Knight Bus|Knight Bus]]. Those might well all have been lumped together and forgiven, along with the inflation of Aunt Marge, by Cornelius Fudge.
However, it is also true that the Ministry does not seem to be aware of Harry's use of magic before he turns eleven. In the first chapters of ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', Harry unknowingly shrinks a horrible sweater down to doll-size so that he won't have to wear it, flies to a rooftop to avoid a beating from [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Dudley Dursley|Dudley]] and his gang, regrows his hair overnight, and makes the glass vanish from a snake's cage. However, there are no warnings issued by the Ministry during this time. Possibly the Trace is only activated when the child reaches the age of 11 and is assumed to be consciously able to direct his or her magic. Could the law also prevent selling or giving wands to children under the age of 11?
This still leaves issues with the Trace remaining quiescent when the Twins and Ron are in Arthur's flying car, when Harry joins them, and when Harry and Ron are in the car. Certainly the car is a magical artifact, and so the Trace should be active, but none of the underage wizards involved in that escapade receive warnings. Another writer, in another series (Randall Garrett, in the ''Lord Darcy'' series), has drawn a distinction between active and passive magic, saying that possessing or using a charmed object is significantly different than actively creating a new spell. It is probably necessary that this same distinction be built into the Trace, as the number of charmed objects in the ordinary Wizarding household that would be used by a child is quite extensive — an infant banging on a self-stirring cauldron with a spoon, for instance, could be considered someone using a magical object. If this distinction was not made by the Trace itself, the Ministry would be overwhelmed with reports of use of magical objects by underage wizards.
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