Comments on: The Dementor’s Kiss

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:05:25 +0000

Oh..oops. I got slightly ahead of myself with my comment on the last page! I’ll just repeat that I have read that Snape was one of very few people who could perform wandless magic, and he’s shown doing it in one of the last couple of chapters when he clicks his fingers and ropes fly up around Lupin.
I like the idea though that transforming into an Animagi is more of a magical ability, similar to being a metamorphmagus, so wouldn’t require a wand. I truly hope that some of this gets explained with the arrival of Pottermore!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 05:17:12 +0000

On the topic of why nobody stunned Pettigrew or did the full body bind – I think it’s because they needed to get him through the tunnel to the castle grounds. It would be a bit hard to carry a rigid body all the way through that low tunnel, I imagine, and with Snape they would even have two such bodies to try and get to the castle!
Granted, I’m sure there were other ways to get Peter to the castle, but sometimes we’ll just have to remember that it’s a book with a plotline that needs to be moved forward ;)

By: Annie Taylor

Annie Taylor — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:14:44 +0000

With the whole wand and Animagus thing I’m guessing it’s because you don’t need magic to transform. Remember. Being an Animagus is having the ability to transform into an animal AT WILL and therefore it is just part of the person. It is just from then on something you are. Like how Tonks can change appearance without a wand. They probably need a wand to become an Animagus to begin with but to transform I doubt that there would be any reason for them to need to.

By: John Kearns

John Kearns — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:15:33 +0000

Romulan Warbird, I highly, highly doubt it.

By: Romulan Warbird

Romulan Warbird — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:00:08 +0000

Did and of the drafts of the harry potter books have the plot element of harry getting bitten by a werewolf?

By: Lewis

Lewis — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 02:21:51 +0000

We also see the same thing with Bellatrix and Lucius in Deathly Hallows.

By: Lewis

Lewis — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:25:53 +0000

Although it was asked nearly a year, Austen has a terrific point. How DOES Sirius get his wand back??

For someone who has a life sentence in Azkaban, it would make sense that the criminals wand is destroyed. I mean they destroy the wand of a person that gets expelled from school, they must do at least the same to mass murderers.

The only thing which would explain it is stealing someone else’s wand. But the only time we actually see him use it is during the battle at the Department of Mysteries. Of course he does get defeated… but he isn’t as imcopetent with the wand as, say, Harry is with the Blackthorn wand in Deathly Hallows.

By: Casey

Casey — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:19:54 +0000

Stella-Jayne, Pettigrew does take Remus’s wand, however he uses it to incapacitate Ron and Crookshanks, and then Harry disarms him with Expelliarmus. THEN he transforms into his rat form. So no, he doesn’t need the wand to transform.

And I also agree with Erica. That was a brilliant way to put it. If you’re doing the initial transformation, I assume you would transform back and be able to grab your wand back up. But this also brings up another important question. After transforming for the second time (when you don’t need a wand) you would go out and do whatever animal things you need to do. So what happens to your wand after that? What if you aren’t able to get back to your wand at the end of the day? Would you lose your wand for good and need to get a new one? Or find a way back to your original wand somehow? It seems like an huge risk to take, to transform. However, when McGonagall transforms for her classes, she obviously has clothes on when she goes back to human form. So maybe you can store your wand in your clothes, transform, then transform back and still have your wand ready in your clothes. I think I may have just answered my own question =P

By: X

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:26:19 +0000

although, tecnically, parseltoungue and mermish are languages.. not magical spells/abilitys.

By: Austen

Austen — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:14:27 +0000

@Not needing a wand to transform: I think what Hazelwillow said was dead on but I would like to add one thing. It is like Paslletounge (no idea how to spell it). You don’t seem to need a wand for magical skills like Flying, Animagi, Paslletounge, Mermish, ect.