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« on: May 31, 2013, 06:54:45 AM »
It can depend on how your character views elemental magic. I have a character where his view of magic is that it is an energy, just like electricity or heat. As such, evocations involving electricity, heat (heat, not fire) and light come very easily to him. But he has a lot of trouble with wind, earth or fire evocations. In his mind, fire is not energy, its a chemical reaction, so he finds it extremely difficult to use. Likewise, Harry has a sword cane which has been crafted to help with his Earth magic evocations. He's used this a few times for spells involving magnetism. For him magnetism is earth magic. But the same spell my character would consider simply another application of electromagnetic energy, just like a bolt of lightning.
So, its not out of the realm of possibilities for my character to learn to use magic to shoot microwaves at enemies. Which seems fairly gruesome in retrospect. But something like that would probably be beyond Harry.