transfiguring food etc in DH

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 179263

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "k12listmomma"
<k12listmomma at ...> wrote:
>
> Sharon:
> It always bothered me that the trio found it so hard to find food
when they 
> were first running/camping in DH. They were apparating from rural
place to 
> rural place. Where were all the rabbits and other wild animals.
Surely there 
> would have been more than wild mushrooms? It was hardly winter when
they set 
> out -- it was really late summer. there should have been loads of
edible 
> plants around, not to mention fish in the streams.  That part about
them 
> living on nothing for days just never sat well with me.  What do others 
> think?  Not having lived in Britain I am unsure about what they
could have 
> caught or picked, but it seems to me that England is hardly a barren
place 
> with no wildlife?
> 
> 
> Shelley:
> I think this is more a matter that the author hasn't the experience of 
> hunting or fishing, and thus Rowling herself would have been out there 
> starving, not knowing what is immediately available to eat. Or, she was 
> trying to show that these kids were "city" kids, you know the kind
who have 
> always seen turkey frozen and sealed in a package, and chicken
already cut 
> up, so that they have never seen food in it's raw and alive state
and the 
> process to get it to the table? The wizarding equivalent might be
"conjured" 
> food, or whatever wizards do to normally get food. It's never really
said 
> where Molly gets the ingredients for her soups and gravies that come
out of 
> her wand. You would think they would know some spells for cooking, or 
> Hermione have researched that part before leaving. At the stream,
couldn't 
> they have "Accio fish"ed?
> 
a_svirn:
Especially since others in their place did exactly that. Was it Ted
Tonks who Accio'ed salmons? And after successfully Acciing Hagrid,
you'd think rabbits and hens would be child's play for Harry. In fact,
what was stopping them from summoning groceries from the nearest
Tesco? With a powerful enough spell they wouldn't even have to come
close to the premises. And considering that Hermione could
successfully banish objects to their proper places while still in her
fourth year, she could dispatch money to the cashier without a
problem.  And couldn't they take a leaf out of Slughorn's book, at
least occasionally, and live in muggle places? They wouldn't even have
to bother with a piano.