Re: More on the Fidelius Charm


"Toon" <toon@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e88tb4loh3076j2sodtrgvfeqms6i43tvm@xxxxxxxxxx
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 23:08:44 +0100, "DaveD"
<davedn1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Also, it's been suggested that you couldn't use the FC to hide a house or
someone's possessions as that would create mass confusion (imagine Fred and
George!) However, Prof. Flitwick in PoA explains that it's an "immensely
complex spell", and not everyone seems to have heard of it anyway, so
perhaps it's only very good wizards like Dd and presumably Voldy could
actually cast it, which limits the number of people who could create
confusion in the first place.

DaveD

The only problem with that is the patronus was a tough one, least of
all corporeal. And almost the whole order could do it, and Harry
quickly trained the DA into doing it. So, how hard can it really be?
Are wizards that lazy? Can the FC be "hard" like a patronus, until
anybody puts a little time into perfecting it?


I guess there's tough and there's fiendishly complex?! ISTR most of Dd's Army managed patronuses so perhaps that's more persistence, whereas an FC is more fiddly and requires extra magical dexterity and subtlety that most don't have?

Incidentally, in OotP, at the inaugural or pre-meeting of the DA in the pub, Susan Bones asks about Harry producing a corporeal patronus having heard about it from her mother who was at the hearing at the MoM. Yet in PoA Harry produces a corporeal patronus in front of the whole school when Draco and friends imitate a dementor to try and scare Harry.

Thinking of patronuses, I'm just rereading GoF - following the DEs rioting at the Quidditch World Cup, instead of having an early start the next morning to try and reassure Molly as soon as possible, why didn't Arthur didn't just send her a patronus which would have been instant, just like Kingsley Shacklebolt did to warn the wedding party that the MoM had fallen (which is one of my favourite, most chilling scenes, from all of the books).

DaveD

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