For that matter, what do mute wizards and witches do? Do they just have to learn to cast everything nonverbally?
Wandless magic presumably.
(I vaguely recall mention of Eastern wizards relying on gestures and not wands/vocalization, but I’m not sure whether this is canon or fanfic.)
Have you read Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Futures Past? It mentioned the eastern wizards doing hand gestures thing, and I don’t recall the canon books ever talking about that. So if you’ve read NoFP, you probably got the idea from there.
I did in fact read it after it was linked in the reviews for MoR (either here or on ff.net), so I guess that’s where it came from! Well-spotted.
Wandless magic presumably.
(I vaguely recall mention of Eastern wizards relying on gestures and not wands/vocalization, but I’m not sure whether this is canon or fanfic.)
Have you read Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Futures Past? It mentioned the eastern wizards doing hand gestures thing, and I don’t recall the canon books ever talking about that. So if you’ve read NoFP, you probably got the idea from there.
I did in fact read it after it was linked in the reviews for MoR (either here or on ff.net), so I guess that’s where it came from! Well-spotted.