The silver hand (Was: The Darkness Within)

[Tammy]

No: HPFGUIDX 119076


azriona:
> > I doubt that the hand will disappear.  Voldy is supposed to be 
> super 
> > strong, magically speaking; I wouldn't put it past him to be able 
> to 
> > create an object out of thin air that won't dissipate as rapidly as 
> > the picnic tables and whatnot that Bill Weasley charms out of 
> nothing 
> > in CoS.
> > 


> Geoff:
> I presume that you are referring to the picnic which was in GOF, not 
> COS (Harry doesn't meet Bill and Charlie until then).
> 
> If so, we are told that they were "two battered old tables" 
> (GOF "Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes" p.57 UK edition) and not produced for 
> the occasion. Secondly, where does the idea come from that conjured 
> objects are transient? There is evidence in at least two places - 
> probably more - that objects are removed by using the 
> spell "Evanesco".

Tammy replies:

JKR herself said that conjured objects don't stay around that long -
"There is legislation about what you can conjure and what you can't.
Something that you conjure out of thin air will not last. This is a
rule I set down for myself early on."

Thus, if Wormtail's hand is staying around, it must be because it was
specifically manufactured by someone at some point. Maybe it's sort of
like the food issue, the food stays because the food is cooked by the
house elves and it's just "conjured" up to the hall. Perhaps the hand
was made beforehand. Amputations have to happen in the magical world
too, perhaps it's just a matter of getting the hand from it's storage
place, which would mean it doesn't qualify as a conjured item.

-Tammy, who knew she read the conjured stuff somewhere and thanks the
Lexicon for having everything so nicely ordered so she doesn't have to
remember everything she read.