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Why Harry has Conjuritus as an Adult
Conspiracy Theorist:
Maggie probably got it from the Swartalves kids as asymptomatic carriers, and gave it to Harry. She probably had little sign as her magic hasn’t come in yet, so she may have had the equivalent if a cold just snot, no ectoplasm. Maggie hadn’t started her new school yet.
This may mean Maggie and Harry got a different strain to that normally encountered by human children, a variant mutating, jumping from Swartalves to humans, which is how the disease probably began in the first place as a disease of some supernatural race which jumped the species barrier. It probably just happened again, as unfortunately these things do.
forumghost:
I'd just like to throw out the theory that maybe the Conjuritus is sentient and was trying to infect a Wizarding child but mistook Harry for one based on his maturity.
Dina:
LOL, I liked that.
I think the most probable explanation is Maggie but I would love Seanham theory to be true. Specially if that means that Harry will become even more powerful.
Someone save this thread, so we remember this by the time JB explains it in a book :)
Mira:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on February 24, 2021, 02:21:50 AM ---Maggie probably got it from the Swartalves kids as asymptomatic carriers, and gave it to Harry. She probably had little sign as her magic hasn’t come in yet, so she may have had the equivalent if a cold just snot, no ectoplasm. Maggie hadn’t started her new school yet.
This may mean Maggie and Harry got a different strain to that normally encountered by human children, a variant mutating, jumping from Swartalves to humans, which is how the disease probably began in the first place as a disease of some supernatural race which jumped the species barrier. It probably just happened again, as unfortunately these things do.
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I doubt it, take mumps, according to the CDC
--- Quote ---Mumps | Complications | CDC
Mumps can occasionally cause complications, especially in adults. Complications can include: inflammation of the testicles (orchitis) in males who have reached puberty; this may lead to a decrease in testicular size (testicular atrophy) inflammation of the ovaries (oophoritis) and/or breast tissue (mastitis)
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So while no fun as a kid, I know I had them as a kid, less dangerous than if I were to get them now as an adult. So I can see it being just a runny nose in Maggie's case, she is still young and if her magic hasn't quite kicked in, present itself as just a runny nose. My guess is Elaine never caught it either as a kid and since both were carefully kept away from other wizards and their children by Justin, he wouldn't say anything about it. So Harry wouldn't recognize it in little Maggie, let alone know that the effects could be much more severe on him, a mature wizard. Most likely the more powerful the person, the more severe the symptoms... So a kid not into his or her magic yet would have mild symptoms, where as mature wizards could cause anvils to fall out of the sky with a sneeze.
morriswalters:
Two POV's on this. One, Jim is setting up Harry to get into shape shifting, laying the explanatory ground so to speak.
Two, Jim saw too many Road Runner cartoons as a child and wanted to drop an anvil on somebodies head.
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