Timeline for Why would Dumbledore and McGonagall carry Colin Creevey with their arms?
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| Mar 7, 2017 at 14:28 | comment | added | anotherdave | @Makyen Just because they could use magic, it doesn't mean they had to whip out their wands for every little thing. | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 20:14 | comment | added | Valorum | @wizzwizz4 - It's already in TBear's answer below. | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 19:58 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 | @Valorum Perhaps include that in your answer then; even if it's implicit I didn't notice it. | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 18:29 | comment | added | Valorum | Wel, if you want to bang his head on things, you could levitate him. | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 18:17 | comment | added | Makyen | @Valorum - The answer does suggest carrying is less difficult than the OP has assumed. It does not address where that puts things as to the relative difficulty of levitating vs. carrying. The answer says Dumbledore could carry a small boy. It does not address why he would do so instead of using levitate. Note that the question also implies that it took both teachers to bring Colin Creevey into the hospital wing. That supposition implies that actually carrying Colin Creevey was non-trivial (requiring two people), which is contrary to the argument that doing so was trivial. | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 18:02 | comment | added | Valorum | @Makyen - The question suggests that it would be inconvenient. This answer suggests that it would be trivial, and probably easier than trying to maneuver an object using magic. | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 17:53 | comment | added | Makyen | @Valorum - Yes, invalidating the question is a valid way to answer, but this does not invalidate the question. It invalidates one assumption leading to the reason the question was asked, but it does not invalidate the actual question of why carry instead of levitate. Specifically, "Why would Dumbledore and McGonagall carry Colin Creevey with their arms?" | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 17:37 | comment | added | Valorum | @Makyen - Invalidating the question is a perfectly sound way of answering :-) | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 17:36 | comment | added | Makyen | While this adequately counters one of the OP's reasons why Dumbledore would not carry Colin Creevey, it does not explain why the choice was made to carry him rather than levitate him. In other words, it explains why the two possibilities, carry/not carry, are not as unequal as the OP has suggested, but does not explain why carrying was the better choice, or even propose just that the method chosen was a spur-of-the-moment decision that happened to go one way, despite other, possibly better, solutions. | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 15:43 | history | answered | Valorum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |