Lockhart's spells (transmogrification)

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 4722

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Neil Ward <neilward at d...> wrote:

> Can we, then, assume that mogrify means "to form"?  I think it may
> be a deviation from magrify, either related to magic/mage or the 
> term magrif, which appears to be a prayer of Arabic origin. 

Back when I encountered the term in Calvin & Hobbes, I assumed that 
Transmogrify was a childish confusion of TRANSMutate (transmutate of 
elements: lead into gold), TRANSMiGRate (transmigration of souls) and 
metaMORphosis (as in Ovid). They're all big word for 'change' that 
grown-ups use.