Slughorn a dead end topic?

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 137739

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hermionegallo" 
<hermionegallo at y...> wrote:
> 
> > hg:
>  Even if I can't determine one way or 
> another that it was Slughorn, his metamorphmagus skills would 
likely 
> come into play later.
> > 
> > 
> > Barb now:
> > 
> > Where does it say that Slughorn is a metamorphmagus? I know he 
> > transforms into an armchair (LOVE that, btw!), but we know that 
> > human transfiguration is possible, through wand-usage and 
potions 
> > (Tonks speaking in OOP, page 62 Am. ed. "Well, you'll have to 
learn 
> > the hard way, I'm afraid," said Tonks. "Metamorphmagi are really 
> > rare, they're born, not made. Most wizards need to use a wand or 
> > potions to change their appearance." I always assumed that 
Slughorn 
> > transfigured himself, and the spell ended when he got poked by 
DD-
> he 
> > was too distracted to keep the spell going. 
> 
> hg:
> Good point, it doesn't say that outright.  I just made a safe 
> assumption that he was since we've never seen him with a wand.  JK 
> makes very careful mention of his hands and eyes throughout the 
book, 
> and I don't recall ever seeing a wand.  I admit the possibility of 
> him being excellent at transfiguration without being a natural-
born 
> metamorphmagus.
> 
> hg.

a_svirn:
We don't know whether he *was* transformed. It could have been a 
very elaborate optical illusion, of a kind that only a wizard of 
Dumbledore calibre would have seen through.