Over his shoulder Harry saw Bill, who still wore his long hair in a ponytail, hastily rolling up the lengths of parchment left on the table.(...) In the flash of light caused by Mrs Weasley’s charm Harry caught a glimpse of what looked like the plan of a building. Mrs Weasley had seen him looking. She snatched the plan off the table and stuffed it into Bill’s already overladen arms. This sort of thing ought to be cleared away promptly at the end of meetings,′ she snapped, before sweeping off towards an ancient dresser from which she started unloading dinner plates. Bill took out his wand, muttered, ‘Evanesce!’ and the scrolls vanished.
Bill explicitly using the Vanishing Charm on valuable documents is stronger evidence for your interpretation than McGonagall’s statement is for mine. I hereby change my belief.
(this weakens my original point, that of casual cruelty to animals in the Potterverse as a sign of poor world-building, but doesn’t falsify it since we have plenty of other examples, especially from Transfiguration)
Bill explicitly using the Vanishing Charm on valuable documents is stronger evidence for your interpretation than McGonagall’s statement is for mine. I hereby change my belief.
(this weakens my original point, that of casual cruelty to animals in the Potterverse as a sign of poor world-building, but doesn’t falsify it since we have plenty of other examples, especially from Transfiguration)