"Conjured" food (was Re: The Nature of Galleons)

[Bex]

No: HPFGUIDX 118089



> Vivamus:
> I think the food appearing is a matter of something similar to apparating.
> Remember the kitchen under the main dining hall has tables that mirror the
> hall above?   Food magically goes up from the kitchen into the dining hall
> to appear on the tables.
>
> When McGonagall or someone else conjures up a plate of pastries and 
> pumpkin juice, I imagine they are summoning from the kitchen, rather 
> than conjuring ex nihilo.


Yep, you can't make food (lasting food that is). I always thought that and 
JKR seems to have confirmed that. If you could why not clothes, that's no 
more complex than food, poor old Lupin in his raggaty robes.

 Molly peels potatoes with the help of magic if you could make food you 
would swish your wand and the meal would be there. The food that appears at 
Hogwarts is transferred from one place to another that's all.

Magic fades over time as inticated many times in the books.

Bex