Magic Imitations

[joym999 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 18927

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., qatet at h... wrote:
> Hello all.  
> 
> During the last few threads - the one about conjuring things and 
the 
> nature of magic, and the one that touched on boggarts - I've come 
to 
> my own few questions about the nature of magic and how it relates 
> to "real" creatures/objects.
> 
> When somebody transfigures something inanimate and makes it a 
living 
> creature (McG's desk to pig always sticks in my mind) have they 
then 
> created a real viable creature?  Does changing it back to a desk 
then 
> constitute a murder of sorts?  
> 
Hi, Kate, and welcome.  Good observation!  If you butchered the pig 
that used to be the desk, would it taste like bacon or sawdust?  
Hmmmm.  I think, as Dumbledore says, that "this is magic at its most 
unpenetrable".

--Joywitch