Application of lessons

[Bernadette M. Crumb]

No: HPFGUIDX 45065


   From: GulPlum <hpfgu at plum.cream.org>

>Barb P wrote:
>
>>While the students may not have used Transfiguration to conquer
any of the
>>large threats experienced during the first four books,
Transfiguration WAS
>>responsible for one of the most daunting challenges on the way
to the
>>Philosopher's Stone (McGonagall's enchanted chess board), the
Animagus
>>Transfiguration was important to the plot of the third book,
and
>>specifically, McGonagall transfiguring herself into a cat and
back to
>>human was introduced near the beginning of the first book,
>
>LOONy point. She doesn't transform herself in front of the class
until PoA,
>during a lesson on Animagi. (OT: This is a piece of continuity
the movie
>series is going to have to sort out, because obviously the topic
is vital
>to the third book/film, and they've already lost their
opportunity to
>introduce it at the right point.)

Er, my daughter currently has a death grip on HPPS so I can't
look it up verbatim, but when Harry and Ron were late for
Transfiguration class, wasn't McGonagall in cat form on the desk
when they came in?  And she transformed back into human form in
front of the class.  It happened within the first couple of weeks
of school because Harry and Ron were still getting lost trying to
find their way around.  She suggested turning them into a watch
and a map.  That, I believe is the animagus changed that Barb is
referring to above, not the change at 4 Privet Drive the night
they dropped Harry off with the Dursleys.

Interesting thought that the magic that Harry observes eventually
becomes important to the overarching plotline... I'll have to
think about that some more.

Bernadette/RowanRhys
(coming out of lurk mode long enough to play hooky from writing a
term paper)

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