![]() ![]() Plus, wandless magic probably requires a lot of energy and tires the wizard faster than if he/she had help channeling their magical energy. If you'd like, the wands are like training wheels. The wizards use the wands and the spell words to direct their magical energy into an intentional and predictable action. Only powerful and fully trained wizards, Dumbledore for example, can do wandless magic. Harry can't do wandless magic "on command". The wandless magic Harry uses is sloppy, unpredictable, and mostly unintentional. The examples of Harry doing the wandless magic with the snake and blowing up his aunt are actually good ways to explain why wizards, specifically young ones at Hogwarts, use their wands. ( Pottermore - History of Magic in North America) As the Native American Animagi and potion-makers demonstrated, wandless magic can attain great complexity, but Charms and Transfiguration are very difficult without one. Wands channel magic so as to make its effects both more precise and more powerful, although it is generally held to be a mark of the very greatest witches and wizards that they have also been able to produce wandless magic of a very high quality. ( Pottermore - Uagadou) Some wizards are able to do magic well without the use of a wand The wand is a European invention, and while African witches and wizards have adopted it as a useful tool in the last century, many spells are cast simply by pointing the finger or through hand gestures. However, in some other of the globe, wands are rarely, if ever, used. I would imagine that European wizards like Harry who are used to always having a wand when performing magic, would find it difficult to do so otherwise. Witches and Wizards use wands to help channel magic. ![]()
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