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Maxilocks · 05-22-2010, 03:52 AM

Gold eyed her tag a bit.

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Gold Laksh,
Sixth year { Gryffindor }
Miniature, toy lion

Then she raised a hand. "Professor, would it not be the actual change that matters?" She offered, a little shyly. Shy. She had somewhat grown that, since the end of last term. Maybe a little less cheerful. But not overall. She was still the same old Gold, most of the time. But when she wasn't, even if it was not all that often, the change was remarkable.

"I mean, if you take charms. They alter an object too, but the transition is purely superficial. The cup is still a cup, whether smaller or larger or repaired or snapped into two. Transfiguration changes the nature of an object, so to speak. We give it both the physical and chemical set of properties, of something else. If you transfigure a cup - correctly - into a mouse, it is no longer a cup. It won't look like a cup, not feel like a cup, not act like a cup. It will be a mouse - it can breathe, twitch its whiskers, chew through things, and very well end up being a parent mouse, because we've changed the nature of the object."

Then she added, still shyly, "I guess my point is that Transfiguration works on total conversion. When you transfigure, the change is actual. Not on the surface, but in the system. Of course, that's only my understanding of the subject." She looked down at her hands. She needed to stop rambling. Or at least get her old confidence of rambling back. Soon.

05-22-2010, 03:52 AM	#101 (permalink)
Maxilocks SS Featured Author Türk Bilgini Bugbear Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: {in a leap of faith} Posts: 31,791 Hogwarts RPG Name: Sarani Glass Graduated x12	♥ Mrs. Itachi Uchiha™ & MAJNOO! : Bleach & Kyo & Natsume ♥ [ Maxh!Jesh ] Gold eyed her tag a bit. Quote: Gold Laksh, Sixth year { Gryffindor } Miniature, toy lion Then she raised a hand. "Professor, would it not be the actual change that matters?" She offered, a little shyly. Shy. She had somewhat grown that, since the end of last term. Maybe a little less cheerful. But not overall. She was still the same old Gold, most of the time. But when she wasn't, even if it was not all that often, the change was remarkable. "I mean, if you take charms. They alter an object too, but the transition is purely superficial. The cup is still a cup, whether smaller or larger or repaired or snapped into two. Transfiguration changes the nature of an object, so to speak. We give it both the physical and chemical set of properties, of something else. If you transfigure a cup - correctly - into a mouse, it is no longer a cup. It won't look like a cup, not feel like a cup, not act like a cup. It will be a mouse - it can breathe, twitch its whiskers, chew through things, and very well end up being a parent mouse, because we've changed the nature of the object." Then she added, still shyly, "I guess my point is that Transfiguration works on total conversion. When you transfigure, the change is actual. Not on the surface, but in the system. Of course, that's only my understanding of the subject." She looked down at her hands. She needed to stop rambling. Or at least get her old confidence of rambling back. Soon.