Sorry if I seem like a troll, but I just want to know; is it possible to totally remove someone's magic, or at least put a cap on it so it can't be used? This is for a fan fic I'm cooking up where Draco has it removed or temporarily disabled. I don't believe in the absurd notion of "magical cores," so removing the magical core of putting a seal around it is NOT an option. Is there a spell or a ritual that can be done?

 

I believe that this is called fanfiction.

Make it the fuck up.

If it's good, great. It probably won't be though.

 

Dumbledore himself stated at the end of book one that Harry carried his mother's magic in his skin. This accounts for how a relatively skinny kid could be a powerful wizard.

Given this canon fact, perhaps the OP could go write that definitive HP/Silence of the Lambs crossover?

 

Genius idea!

 

Do skinny jeans help too? =O

All those "Harry Potter becomes emo" fics make so much sense now. They were actually canon-compliant!

 

Your forgetting something else, the more absurd your hair the more powerful you are. Example being DBZ, duh

 

Voldemort has no hair...

Well, Snapes invention of Sectumsempra for cutting skin makes so much more sense now.

 

Counter example: Voldemort's Hairless Dome of a Head

Either hair doesn't factor into magical power or Voldemort has a massive and exotic pubic bush.

 

OT: No there is nothing discussed in HP that deals with having a cap on magic or loss of magic. The closest that comes up would be having Squib children. I'm sure it is possible to make a person forget about magic and so they would never use it again, but I doubt that is what you are thinking of.

 

Actually, it's nosehair. Voldemort has a huge nose with a veritable shag carpet erupting from it, but his most important spell is the one called "Notice-Nose-Not".

Harry has the power that he, Mr. Nose-not, has.

 

I second this. I don't see why you couldn't obliviate someone's magic away. Even if you still wanted them a squibby character, you could remove their knowledge of working magic without removing their knowledge of how magic works. Sure they could learn it again, but you're essentially resetting them to a first year.

 

As Blaise and I have discussed previously, a person's magic resides in their scrotum. Again, wrinkles appear to be the deciding factor...

...on the plus side, this means to remove Draco's magic you must castrate him.

 

Except y'know, it could be totally subconscious. Muggleborns had no knowledge they were wizards when they performed their first spells. Maybe this only happens once- when they mature magically- but even if they lose their skill they'd probably retain the ability to accidental magic, especially if they were in danger. Especially if the psychological effect of being told you can't do magic without a wand is gone.

 

I'm not saying it'd prevent their accidental magic. But you could completely remove their knowledge of ever practising magic or learning spells in order to remove their ability to perform concious magic. Like I said, they could easily learn it again, but they'd be eleven years old again, magically.

 

To take a wizard's magic just take away his wand. Then cast some kind of wand-repelling charm on him so he can't get another one.

 

Ah, but you're forgetting wandless magic!

 

I'd hardly call it an ability if the magic's accidental. It's mostly useless anyway. Dudley beat Harry up dozens of times, yet he only accidentally apparated once. And turning hair blue isn't going to stop anyone (unless the real source of a wizard's power is in the colour of his hair of course). It's just a very rare, very limited magical reaction to an emotional state. And if someone lost all knowledge of magic, he wouldn't even recognize accidental magic as such. It'd just be a strange coincidence, that's quickly forgotten about. That's how Muggleborns and their parents seem to react anyway.

Obliviating someone seems to be one of the only canon ways to 'remove' someone's magic. Another rather crude way would be to cut off someone's hands with Dark magic.

Or, you know, take away his wand and don't give it back. Possibly while saying something like "nananananana" or "Give you my wand Lucius? My wand?".

EDIT: Fucking ninja's.

 

Yeah, apart from Neville bouncing it's practically worthless, but you never know, you might get lucky with it. But yeah, the chances are slim.

P.S.: A bit off-topic here but: O.P., why do you find the concept of magical cores "absurd"?

 

Because it would be lame, cliche, and stupid