A moral theory of Magic (was Re: A simple-minded question)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 95262

Neri wrote:
Voldie gave Wormtail a silvery hand after he had completed his 
resurrection. Where had he got hold of such amount of Power X? 
Harry's blood? Wormtail sacrificing his own hand?
 
Tip responded:
I think the silver hand has more to do with harming Lupin or being a 
red herring for harming Lupin than what power it comes from. It 
reads in the book more as a powerful transfiguration than anything 
else.

Carol:
*Is* it a Transfiguration? If so, of what? It can't be the original
hand, which has been absorbed into the potion that resurrected
Voldemort, or even into Voldemort himself, as Harry's blood (and the
powdered bits of LV's father's bone) seem also to have done. I saw it
as conjuring something out of nothing--like Leprechaun gold or the
chairs that DD conjures at Harry's hearing. Such conjuring doesn't
normally create a lasting object, or Sirius could conjure food and
Lupin and the Weaselys could conjure money.

What if the silver hand, rather than being a reward for faithful
service, is a terrible trick that LV has played on Wormtail? And, if
not, how could such a spell be made to last? That is, how could the
hand be made a permanent part of Wormtail without violating the
limitations of magic that JKR herself has established?

Carol, who agrees that the silver hand has something to do with Lupin
but still wonders where it came from