Painful Transfiguration? - TR, the Quidditch star - Duels

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 34214

Lucy wrote:

>Erm, from CS Chapter 12:

>'His insides started writhing ...
>doubled up, he wondered whether he was going
>to be sick ... a burning sensation
>spread rapidly from his stomach ... next,
>bringing him gasping to all fours, came a horrible melting feeling ... his
>shoulders stretched painfully ... his feet were in agony in shoes four 
>sizes
>too small'.

>Doesn't sound painless to me!! :-)

True.  However, to return to Finwitch:

> > Also - being transformed might hurt almost as much
> > as Cruciatus! Just > think - it hurts to break a bone - having EVERY 
>CELL
> > IN YOUR BODY to > alter at the same time and stay in altered form - it
> > must hurt - and > hurt worse than switching or bouncing.
>{snip}

It's possible.  OTOH, Animagical (?) transformations give no indication of 
being painful; nor do self-transfigurations such as Viktor's.  These are 
magical transformations; they circumvent Muggle physics (including, of 
course, conservation of matter--Draco's a lot bigger than a ferret).  We 
know that werewolf tranformations are painful, and Polyjuice transformations 
are painful (at least when you're turning into Goyle <g>), but they're 
different.  We don't see Viktor in the moment of transformation, so I won't 
try to draw conclusions from that, but we do see McGonagall transform back 
and forth, and they do it without a wince.  Being Transfigured by someone 
else might be yet a third ball of wax, of course, but it seems more akin to 
Animagic than it is to lycanthropy or potion-induced transformation.

Catlady wrote:

>Think how awful Harry would feel if he discovered that what he believes to 
>be his one talent not only isn't even his, but came from his enemy.

To which Pippin responded:

>Horrid thought! I've had it too, but consoled myself that if T.R.'s name 
>was on a Quidditch trophy, the trio would have noticed it when they were 
>checking up on his history.

Ah, but perhaps he was a great Seeker who never received the recognition he 
deserved.  Young Tom chafed to see one undeserving team after another beat 
his Slytherins (whaddaya, blind, ref?  hey, that was cobbing!), growing more 
bitter all the while.  In his fourth year, a Muggle-born Gryffindor won 
M.V.P. and Tom snapped.  It was then that his plans to kicked into high 
gear.  And the moral is that fairer officiating could have prevented the 
most horrific conflict in centuries.

Elkins wrote:

>I'm under the impression that drawing wands is *serious* for adult
>wizards, the equivalent of drawing weapons.

I have the same impression:  coming from an adult wizard, it would be like 
having someone point a gun at you.  "Dumbledore's voice carried no hint of a 
threat . . . but Fudge bristled as if Dumbledore was advancing upon him with 
a wand" (GF 36).

Amy Z

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The clock on Lupin's wall . . . had twelve
divisions, ranging from Sound Asleep to
Murderous Intent And No Human Conscience.
      -Amanita Lestrange, "Fool's Paradise"
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