Thin air/Choices Was re:sex/VanishingCabinet/SoulsEtc/Badger/Ch.2/

[saraquel_omphale]

No: HPFGUIDX 139960

>Saraquel originally wrote:
><< One thing that has always puzzled me about the Potterverse, is 
>the apparent ease with which objects can be magicked out of thin 
>air. From chairs and inanimate objects (many examples, DD in 
>Harry's hearing) to organic things like food (Sandwiches in CoS) 
>right up to living birds (Hermione in HBP). >>

>Catlady responded:
>Many of those things could real objects transported from another 
>place by magic rather than conjured objects created ex nihilo by 
>magic. The chairs and squashy purple sleeping bags would have been 
>in storerooms, the food in the kitchen (already prepared and put on 
>the plate by House Elves). I dunno if I can argue that Hermione's 
>birds were transported from another place...

Saraquel now:
This made me smile.  Either we have a sort permanent wizard junk 
shop, resembling the dumping ground room of requirement in my fancy, 
which provides instant loans for the needy wizard.  Raining – need 
an umbrella, just stick out your wand. Do you think you have to pay 
in advance – 5 knuts an item, and a fine of 1 sickle if not returned 
in 24hours. Or worse, the nearest like object responds to the call.  
So you could just be sitting down to dinner, with your fork half way 
to your mouth, when someone two houses down can't be bothered to get 
up to fetch a fork so magically grabs yours.  Most disturbing!  I 
don't know what a flock of canaries would feel like if they were 
halfway through migrating for the winter and had already made a few 
thousand Kms, only to find themselves transported back to base.  It 
could wreak havoc with their breeding cycle.  I remember thinking 
that wizard cooking was really rather interesting when Molly poured 
sauce from the tip of her wand straight into the pan. Something 
tells me JKR is doing a bit of wishful thinking there.

>Catlady wrote in reply to Aberforth's Goat:
>So: Harry's choices *reveal* something--they peel the layers off the
>onion--they show us the person he actually is. His true identity, 
>his soul, his platonic essence.

Saraquel:
Or is it that we have the potential to be anything, and that through 
our choices we create a personality and base for what we are. More 
soul thoughts (I did post more about the soul, so after you 
expressed interest in the post I'm replying to, I hope you have 
enjoyed reading them.) they just keep coming :-) If we define 
memories, mind, emotions etc as not being the soul, then we end up 
with the soul=container for aforesaid things, which I find highly 
dissatisfactory.  So now I'm wondering if the soul is a completely 
non-physical thing that is just love, out of which these things are 
fashioned.  Paralleling my thoughts on magical power being a force 
in the `ether' which witches/wizards use to fashion objects.  If 
that's accurate, then our whole personality and life, is one long 
choice.

Saraquel
Who is still working on the prophecy.