Transfiguration Question

[maidne]

No: HPFGUIDX 59078

What's disturbing to me about this whole idea is this:  what happens 
to something or someone turned into an inanimate object?  In the 
books we see beetles turned into a coat buttons and turtles into  
teapots.  Would the brain/consciousness just completely go away?  
Then what happens if/when it is transfigured back into itself, does 
everything come back?  What if there's a mental equivalent to being 
splinched?  This is almost harder to think about than the time travel 
thing.  :)



"corinthum" <kkearney at s...> wrote:
> From what we saw with Draco the ferret, it seems that thigs
> return to their previous state when retransfigured, regardless of 
the
> effects of the original transfiguration.
> 
> -Corinth, who hopes this little detail is clarified in a future 
book,
> because it's really beginning to bug me.  :)


Susan's reply:
It also seems that Draco remembered being a ferrett, witness 
Hermione's tweaking him by pretending that Professor Moody was 
standing behind him, and calling him a "twitchy little ferret".  So 
he must have retained some of his human consciousness while in ferret 
form.

Susan