[HPforGrownups] Thermodynamics & Wizarding

[ABoyko at starchoice.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 7269


> Issue (2) is more problematic, though. If Molly could magic unlimited
> quiantities of galleons or dress robes or baked Alaska or even cloth and
> flour into existence, why are the Weasly's poor? And yet, Dumbledore makes
> all sorts of things appear with a mere twitch of his wand. ("Drawing up" a
> chair, for instance.) And doesn't Olivander make wine stream out of
> Fleur's
> wand in GoF? In fact, doesn't Molly herself ejec--I mean, shoot--a stream
> of
> white sauce out of her wand while preparing dinner at the Burrow? (Or have
> you people lead my impressionable mind to remeber quotes that aren't
> there??[1])
> 
> So, wizards really do seem to be able to cause matter to appear, where
> none
> was present before.
> 
	I think Dumbledore "drew up" a chair that already existed, but
wasn't in the room. It could have been a chair from his private den.
Similarly, Ollivander may have conjured the wine from his collection and
Molly had the white sauce in another pot. 

	I used to think that the Hogwarts food was conjured from thin air,
but now we know that the house elves prepare it, and it gets conjured up to
the dining hall. 

	Why Arthur or Molly couldn't have transfigured Ron's dress robes
into something less skanky is a question I'd like to see answered.

	Angela