Transfiguration Question

[Mark]

No: HPFGUIDX 58926

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, yellows at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 5/28/2003 9:24:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
freddie_mac1 at y... writes:
> Therefore, I believe that humans who are tranfigured to animals
> will have to follow the physical rules and limitations of the
> animal -- they can't talk, etc. -- but will still be the same
> thinking, functioning human beings inside.
> 
> Also, it follows that an animal transfigured to a human would still
> be an animal inside. He or she would have the ability to speak, but
> not necessarily the understanding of human languages, etc.
> 
> Brief Chronicles

Brief, I agree with your assessment.  It's a lot like the stories 
in "The Sword in the Stone" where Arthur was magically tansformed by 
merlin into animals just to see what it was like.

But I'll throw another question out along these same lines:  What 
happened when Krum turned the stone into a Dog?  Obviously it was 
enough of a dog to distract the dragon (for a moment), but it didn't 
have the "mind of a rock".  It was very "dog like".

Mark