[HPforGrownups] Money and Squibs

[Michelle Strauss]

No: HPFGUIDX 37872

Eclipse had asked:  >> What keeps wizards from turning other things into 
money with Transfiguration? Secondly could squibs make potions?
There doesn't seem to be any magic used in the class.  The students just put 
ingrediants in. The only difference between potions and chemistry is what 
goes is. The squibs would know where to get these things. They proably would 
become very good potion makers since they wouldn't be able to learn any 
other kind of magic. While they would have to plan all their attacks ahead 
of time, it would make them hard to trace. <<

To answer the first question as best I can, normally I would say ethics, but 
I don't think that would stop some of them. Personally, I believe that it's 
pretty much like the old alchemy problem of turning lead into gold. I think 
that there are ways through both potions and transfiguration to turn 
something into gold, *but* there are catches. First, it would be bloody near 
impossible to do, say on the order of the wolfsbane potion or anamagi 
training. Second, it wouldn't be permament: kinda like leprechaun gold. 
After a while it would revert to it's original state, or vanish, or melt.

To answer the second question as best I can, yes and no. Yes in that it 
would be physically and theoretically possible depending on the potion. No 
in that they would never be given the chance to even try. The same with Care 
of Magical (docile/harmless) Creatures, Herbology, Divination (hey even *I* 
could do that stuff if I had a book with what the various symbols meant), 
Muggle Studies, History of Magic, and possibly Astronomy, Arithmancy, and 
Ancient Runes if they are what I think they are. Problem is, because they 
can't 'do magic'in the normal sense (Transfiguration, charms, hexes, and 
curses) it is assumed that they can't do anything relating to magic, and are 
therefore never trained to do any of it. I think it's a bit like saying 
since a person has... let's say... dislexia doesn't have the ability to do 
well in any subject so lets not even bother trying to send them to school 
and instead we'll just let them learn a trade where reading, writing, math, 
and science doesn't have much impact -say baisc janitorial work and physical 
hard labor. While it is true that they will never excel in certain areas, 
they still have the *potential* to excel in others.
@---<-- Chyna Rose






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