Moaning Myrtle is Harry's aunt on James's side & Harry/Myrtle's Glasses are

[va32h]

No: HPFGUIDX 168006

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> 
wrote:

> I've asked myself both questions and can only conclude that JKR is
> placing limitations on magic, just as she does when she makes real
> money and real food necessities in the WW. You can't conjure either
> one, or the Weasleys wouldn't be poor and Lupin wouldn't be thin and
> hungry-looking. And Sirius Black could simply have stolen a wand and
> conjured food rather than living on rats. (I still think it's unfair
> to poor Merope to think that she could have kept herself alive using
> magic when she couldn't conjure food or money.)

va32h:

I do agree with you except - we have seen Molly conjure food. She's 
made sauce come out of her wand when cooking. And Harry has conjured 
water from his wand. In general, my understanding of magic is that 
conjured items do not last...for example, when Dumbledore conjures a 
chair at Christmas dinner for Prof. Trelawney, it disappears at some 
point after dinner. 

Maybe conjured food and water is not filling. 

va32h