At the beginning of the second novel Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry gets locked up in his room by his uncle. In an attempt to free him the
Weasley’s Ron, George and Fred decide to rescue him with a flying car. Due to
ministry regulation underage wizards are not allowed to perform magic outside
school. Harry is, therefore, quite desperate and asks them to inform the
headmaster:
“‘[…]
Look, can you explain to them at Hogwarts that the Dursleys have locked me up
and won’t let me come back, and obviously I can’t magic myself out, because the
Ministry’ll think that’s the second spell I’ve done in three days, so-‘
‘Stop
gibbering’, said Ron, ‘we’ve come to take you home with us.’
‘But
you can’t magic me out either-‘” [1]
To ‘magic oneself out’ is a neologism used by J. K.
Rowling that derives from the phrases ‘to deliver out of’ and ‘to break out’.
Both focus on an escape from an enclosed space. In the magical world it is much
easier to escape with the use of magic. This neologism is, therefore, very
accurate.
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