Magic Imitations

[Jenny T. Malmiola]

No: HPFGUIDX 18928

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., joym999 at a... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., qatet at h... wrote:

> > 
> > 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

Or could it be like just a while go was discussed why Ron's family 
doesn't have thing by magic; they don't last for long?

Jenny