Little Questions Answered v.18

[mysterious]

Originally Posted by Darksmith

Is it like a very powerful notice me not charm?

Disillusionment Charm

Originally Posted by Darksmith

If carpet bombing or a an area of effect spell was used would it still destroy the hidden location?

I don't think so, because if this were the case then the Death Eaters would have managed to penetrate Grimmauld place, but they couldn't. Fidelius Charm is thrown off by some magical forces, but we have only one canon evidence as such, we can only conclude that it can be done only by some form of very powerful Ancient magic.

Originally Posted by Darksmith

Can you hide the existance of say a spell or a memory?

Well one rarely recognizes the existence of a spell. I mean we only see Dumbledore identify the sources of magic by sensing them. He does say that magic leaves behind trails, but since most people aren't smart enough to find it, I don't see a reason to hide the trail.

Originally Posted by Darksmith

Would it prevent a dementor from tracking you?

Dementors track by emotion, if you are as good as Snape, you are practically invisible to them.

[willfitz]

Originally Posted by cardinalguy

The simplest answer is that Harry didn't need to disarm the Elder Wand from Draco for it to recognize that its master had been defeated and switch allegiances.

Exactly. This is essentially about the wand being a sort of sentient being in itself. It chooses its master, like all wands, but for the Elder Wand there is only one criterion. For the Elder Wand to choose Harry as a master, it would only need to recognize him as more powerful than its previous owner, and it bases that on Harry disarming (essentially defeating) Malfoy at Malfoy Manor. It has nothing to do with which wand is being disarmed.

Originally Posted by Darksmith

I may have have asked this question in the past but I'd really like another opinion

How does the Fidelius charm act?
Is it like a very powerful notice me not charm?
If carpet bombing or a an area of effect spell was used would it still destroy the hidden location?
Can you hide the existance of say a spell or a memory?
Would it prevent a dementor from tracking you?

Personally, I'd advise this to be moved to the Fidelius Charms thread (one of them). I'll reply there.

[Dead Star]

Forgive me if this has been asked already, but: in the final showdown between Harry and Voldemort, Voldemort fired the Avada Kedavra curse at Harry, but the Elder Wand refused to kill Harry because Harry was its true master, and hit Voldemort instead. However, earlier in the book, when Harry goes to be killed by Voldemort, Voldemort's AK curse with the Elder Wand does hit Harry (and I know that Harry didn't actually die, but the AK curse did hit him, and instead of killing him, it destroyed the piece of Voldemort's soul that was in him, and because of all the things he was protected by, only sent Harry's own soul to limbo instead of the afterlife). Why didn't the Elder Wand turn against Voldemort in the Forest scene as well? (I haven't re-read Deathly Hallows since it was released, and I can't remember if this was answered in the book >.<)

[Montse]

Do you have to be certain age to go side along aparating, I mean , in book 5 they take Harry Via Broom, wouldn´t it had been easier to side along aparate with him , one book after this is what DD does. So I started wondering.

[BurrowGhoul]

Originally Posted by Dead Star

Forgive me if this has been asked already, but: in the final showdown between Harry and Voldemort, Voldemort fired the Avada Kedavra curse at Harry, but the Elder Wand refused to kill Harry because Harry was its true master, and hit Voldemort instead. However, earlier in the book, when Harry goes to be killed by Voldemort, Voldemort's AK curse with the Elder Wand does hit Harry (and I know that Harry didn't actually die, but the AK curse did hit him, and instead of killing him, it destroyed the piece of Voldemort's soul that was in him, and because of all the things he was protected by, only sent Harry's own soul to limbo instead of the afterlife). Why didn't the Elder Wand turn against Voldemort in the Forest scene as well? (I haven't read Deathly Hallows in four years, and I can't remember if this was answered in the book >.<)

I was under the impression that, because Harry met death willingly, the Elder Wand accepted his decision and did not interfere, which also allowed Harry to retain mastery of it.

[willfitz]

Originally Posted by BurrowGhoul

I was under the impression that, because Harry met death willingly, the Elder Wand accepted his decision and did not interfere, which also allowed Harry to retain mastery of it.

Exactly. In the final duel, it would have constituted defeat, but in the forest, it would not, so the wand had no qualms with sending the curse the first time, but refused the second time.

Originally Posted by Montse

Do you have to be certain age to go side along aparating, I mean , in book 5 they take Harry Via Broom, wouldn´t it had been easier to side along aparate with him , one book after this is what DD does. So I started wondering.

I don't think so, seeing as it was registered as an emergency measure for families in the pamphlet in HBP. It is possible that it has a high possibility of going wrong and causing splinching, but you wouldn't think that a problem with someone like Dumbledore or Moody. It's possible that they just didn't want to give Harry the discomfort of apparating. I suppose this would be the reason for getting to Stoatshead Hill in GoF as well.

[merrymarge]

For GOF, side-along appartion would be more time consuming, cause it was just Mr. Weasley and the rest were under age children. Unless, he was able to talk Bill, Charlie, and Percy into bringing some of them.
I think for GOF they had to introduce port keys because the triwizard cup was a port key.

[thesevensydneys]

I'm pretty sure that a wizard has to be 17 to get an Apparition Licence. But didn't Harry apparate with Dumbledore in HBP...

[merrymarge]

Yes, and Dumbledore took him in side- along apparition.

[Alastor]

Actually it was Harry who took Dumbledore back from the cave. But the trace can't detect exactly who did magic, so who could prove that it wasn't Dumbledore who took Harry? And we have seen earlier Dumbledore giving Harry permission to do this or that. Obviously he had that authority as headmaster of Hogwarts.

[thesevensydneys]

But didn't Harry need to have classes or something to know how to apparate...?

[Dead Star]

Originally Posted by thesevensydneys

But didn't Harry need to have classes or something to know how to apparate...?

He did go to the Apparating classes, in HBP, remember? He just didn't take the test.

Originally Posted by BurrowGhoul

I was under the impression that, because Harry met death willingly, the Elder Wand accepted his decision and did not interfere, which also allowed Harry to retain mastery of it.

Originally Posted by willfitz

Exactly. In the final duel, it would have constituted defeat, but in the forest, it would not, so the wand had no qualms with sending the curse the first time, but refused the second time.

Hmm, I didn't consider that. Thanks

[HedwigsFlight7]

How did Harry and Voldemort's wands get Fawkes feathers? Did Ollivander just ask Dumbledore for some? To go with that, if murdering a unicorn is a crime, how do they get the unicorn hair? Does Ollivander buy from the black market?

[BurrowGhoul]

Originally Posted by HedwigsFlight7

How did Harry and Voldemort's wands get Fawkes feathers? Did Ollivander just ask Dumbledore for some? To go with that, if murdering a unicorn is a crime, how do they get the unicorn hair? Does Ollivander buy from the black market?

Didn't Hagrid get unicorn hair from bushes in the forest? I think unicorns must shed.

[HedwigsFlight7]

Originally Posted by BurrowGhoul

Didn't Hagrid get unicorn hair from bushes in the forest? I think unicorns must shed.

Ah you are so right. Duh, that makes sense. What about Fawkes though?

[Hes]

I think Olivander probably received feathers from Dumbledore himself. Phoenix feathers are rare so I can totally see Dumbledore helping Olivander out by donating feathers (Fawkes as any bird sheds feathers). Since we know so little about how Dumbledore and Fawkes met it's of course also possible that he was the property of another wizard or witch. But I like to think Fawkes was a wild bird and came to Dumbledore by his own accord.

[Nepenthes]

where were Lily's parents? It seems too early even for a muggle to die that young (since they just had a grandbaby, they cant be that old)

[gelowo93]

I think JKR has said that they just died, nothing suspicious, because otherwise Harry wouldn't be alone with the Dursleys.

[FurryDice]

Originally Posted by HedwigsFlight7

How did Harry and Voldemort's wands get Fawkes feathers? Did Ollivander just ask Dumbledore for some? To go with that, if murdering a unicorn is a crime, how do they get the unicorn hair? Does Ollivander buy from the black market?

Wand-makers don't need to kill a unicorn to pull out a tail hair. When he's examining Cedric's wand, Ollivander comments that it came from a large unicorn that nearly gored him when he was pulling out the hair.

[MrNorris]

In GoF, during the period of time where Crouch Jr was Mad-Eye Moody, do we know if Voldemort, or even Pettigrew were in any sort of contact with him? I imagine it would be difficult verging on the impossible, but I can't help but admire Barty's brain and his ability to carry out the plan that was hatched beforehand flawlessly