What do wizards do?

[Fred Waldrop]

No: HPFGUIDX 55036


 (First I asked) Hello all, Fred Waldrop here
 
 I have been seing this in post after post, that if something is 
 magicly made, it will not last. 
 Where does everyone get this from? I have not read it in any of the 
 books, or did I just miss it?
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 bboy_mn: Replied
 
 Let's make a distinction between CREATING something magically, and
 CONJURING something magically. 
 Creating magically mean to create something out of SOMETHING, in 
which Case it is permanent. The house-elves create cooked food out of 
raw ingredients using magic. EIther that food is permanent or all the
students starve to death.
 
Conjuring something means to create something out of NOTHING. Since it
comes from nothing, it returns to nothing. Using food as an example,
this is the diet where you can eat 90% of your food as conjured
premiun ice cream and chocolate bars, and still loose weight. I could
use about 10 pound of that magic right now.
 
The precident of conjured objects having no permanence comes from an
interview with JKR where she said that MOST things created from
nothing are in fact, just that, nothing. So they aren't permanent. She
did imply that the degree of permanence was variable, and some
conjured objects could last a significant amount of time, but
generally nothing=nothing. As with many of her interviews, a lot is
implied, but no much is actually said. 
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Me again, Fred Waldrop;
Thanks for the information. And if JKR said it to be so, I fall in 
line with her, after all, it is her universe, not mine. She created 
it, so she should know exactly how it works. 

As a side note, I can not understand why so many can not understand 
that the Potterverse is the compleat creation of JKR. And if she 
desides that a failed curse does not show up during a Priori 
Incantatem, then all is still well, it just doesn't show up.
Just a thought, and I am sure that some will say I am wrong.

Fred