[HPforGrownups] Re: Transfiguration

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 75487

bibphile wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jksunflower2002" 
> <MKELLER at S...> wrote:
> In CoS Hermione describes the Mandrake as such: "It is used to 
> return people who have been transfigured or cursed to their original 
> state."  Of course, it was used for those who were petrified (uh, is 
> that a form of transfiguration?) Hmmm....you may have something 
> there.  Can people be transfigured again their will?  Neville's toad 
> comes to mind. Oooh, the possibilities!! 
> 
> What I'm wondering is why they need a Mandrake when they've been 
> tranfigured.  McGonagall fixed Draco quite easily.

Just because mandrake is used to return transfigured people does 
not mean that *only* mandrake is used to return them.  "Aspirin 
is used to relieve pain" does not mean that acetominephen and 
ibuprofin are not also used.