My thoughts:
1) It’s becoming increasingly clear that—even though Harry has accumulated a wealth of knowledge and evidence by this point about Dumbledore, Quirrell, Lucius and Snape—he still knows little about Voldemort (e.g. motives, background, abilities, weaknesses). I am fairly confident that this is intentional on the author’s part; withholding Harry’s (and the reader’s) knowledge about Voldemort is an excellent way to ensure that a Revelation of information occurs within the next few chapters about Voldemort’s background.
2) We haven’t yet seen Harry’s reaction to the fact that Flitwick invented a Charm; presumably he will update his model of the nature of magic when he has time to process this.
3) The joke at the beginning of the chapter making fun of America’s disconnect with the rest of the world was particularly brilliant and appreciated
We haven’t yet seen Harry’s reaction to the fact that Flitwick invented a Charm; presumably he will update his model of the nature of magic when he has time to process this.
Minerva already told him that people invent new spells all the time early in the story.
We haven’t yet seen Harry’s reaction to the fact that Flitwick invented a Charm; presumably he will update his model of the nature of magic when he has time to process this.
Without knowing the details of the process of researching new Charms, we can’t really differentiate between “invented”, “discovered”, “created”, and “learned”. Flitwick is not a scientist and I don’t trust him to report the difference correctly. The discovery itself is not on-screen.
My thoughts: 1) It’s becoming increasingly clear that—even though Harry has accumulated a wealth of knowledge and evidence by this point about Dumbledore, Quirrell, Lucius and Snape—he still knows little about Voldemort (e.g. motives, background, abilities, weaknesses). I am fairly confident that this is intentional on the author’s part; withholding Harry’s (and the reader’s) knowledge about Voldemort is an excellent way to ensure that a Revelation of information occurs within the next few chapters about Voldemort’s background. 2) We haven’t yet seen Harry’s reaction to the fact that Flitwick invented a Charm; presumably he will update his model of the nature of magic when he has time to process this. 3) The joke at the beginning of the chapter making fun of America’s disconnect with the rest of the world was particularly brilliant and appreciated
Minerva already told him that people invent new spells all the time early in the story.
Without knowing the details of the process of researching new Charms, we can’t really differentiate between “invented”, “discovered”, “created”, and “learned”. Flitwick is not a scientist and I don’t trust him to report the difference correctly. The discovery itself is not on-screen.