Tranfiguration (was: Sorting Hat)

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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No: HPFGUIDX C3421
From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: Tranfiguration (was: Sorting Hat)
Reply To: [Yahoo! #3407] The Sorting Hat/Crookshanks
Date: 7/6/00 2:15 am  (ET)

> of transiguration of living creatures from inanimate objects (mice
from snuff boxes etc.), and presumably in the opposite direction.

Teapot into tortoise and back again. McGonagall's desk into a pig and
back again. Teacups into rats and back again.

When the teapot is transfigured into a tortoise, which is a living thing,
where did the life come from? (Do tortoises have souls? In my religion
they do.) When the tortoise is transfigured back into a teapot, is that
murder of a tortoise?