[HPforGrownups] Thermodynamics & Wizarding

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 7279

A quick note on Dumbledore's amazing powers of making stuff show up: perhaps as
Headmaster, he can draw on the school itself, and thus can create much more
extensive stuff than, say, Molly making dinner. There was a postulate some eons
back, about some mystical connection betwixt Dumbledore and the school, a la
(for those who have read them) some of Charles deLint's stuff, about the house
in Ottawa (Ottawa? long time no read).

Also, there might be a quality factor. Changing the appearance of something is
one thing; changing the quality is another. Hence a match to a needle might not
be the same thing as lead to gold.

And lastly, permanence. Leprechaun gold is, to all appearances, real, but
transitory. I would postulate that the squashy purple sleeping bags were
similar, non-permanent exigency measures. However, food *cannot* be impermanent,
and probably cannot be simply conjured out of nothing (or lots out of
little)--at least not if you want to live on it.

So it wasn't a quick note. So sue me.

--Amanda