Minerva & DD-Transfiguration Professors-have they been playing other Charactors?

[tlpbupu]

No: HPFGUIDX 88440

vmont wrote> 
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> I also have a question: Can a wizard transfigure into a cat (for 
> example) and not necessarily be an anamagi?  
> 
> Can transfiguration be used (like when drinking polyjuice)to 
> impersonate another character (without being a metamorph)?
> 
> Do you think any of the children (like Luna for example) are 
really 
> Minerva, DD, or even Tonks for that matter?


   This may not really answer your first question, but in one of the 
book - I don't remember which right now - when Harry walked by the 
Transfiguration room Mcgonagall was telling someone off for turning 
his friend into a badger.  Also in GOF Fake!Moody turned Malfoy into 
a ferret.  However, both of these instances took place when person1 
turned person2 into an animal.  I believe that only anamagi can turn 
themselves into animals.

   To answer your second question, IMHO I do not think that 
transfiguration can be used to impersonate another character.  Why 
would Crouch Jr. go to all the trouble of keeping Moody alive, 
making the polyjuice potion, and taking it every hour on the hour if 
he could just transfigure himself?   Also, the MOM keeps track of 
all anamagi ( it thinks) so that they know if someone transforms, it 
would be impossible to keep track of all of the wizards who could 
transform using transfiguration.  

   I don't know about Mcgonagall, but DD and Tonks can't be any of 
the major or immediate minor characters because at the end of OoTP  
DD and Tonks both came to the Dept. of Mysteries and the children 
where there also.  I know that there are those who think that 
Hermione is Mcgonagall or that Ron is DD, but personally, I don't.

tlpbupu