General Knowledge
Transfiguration Professor from book 1-7
Who is Professor Minerva McGonagall?
One of the more scientific branches of magic.
What is Transfiguration?
Human Transfiguration. Switching. Trans-species Transformation. General Transformation.
What are the sub-branches of Transformation?
The first principal exception and the one least explained.
What is food?
They do not actually create love. Rather, they create a strong attraction that can be perceived as love
What is "Amortentia"?
Transformation. Vanishment. Conjuration. Untransfiguration.
What are the four branches of Transfiguration?
Mass of the beginning object
What is the variable "a"?
Switches that are usually directed at human beings to transform one or all parts of the body to that of another species.
What is Cross-Species Transformation?
We can draw in this energy from ourselves and the world around us and shape it to perform spells, but there is currently no physical way to imbue something with a self preserving magical energy if it does not have it to begin with.
What is magical energy?
(1) inanimate to inanimate, (2) inanimate to animate, (3) animate to inanimate and (4) animate to animate.
What are the four general categories of general traznsformation?
A special potion that allows someone to keep their human mind during the full moon
What is "Wolfsbane Potion"?
t = (w*c) / (v*a) * Z
What is the transfiguration formula?
Items are formed by pulling together the particles around us to create the object that we desire, essentially opposite to the way in which items are vanished
What is conjuration?
The most abstract of all exceptions.
What is love?
The Four Branches of Transfiguration by an unknown German Transfigurist
What is the year they were first defined?
Food. Magical Energy. Love. Life. Knowledge.
What are the Five Principal Exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration?
A very dangerous form of magic, as it is very easy to mess up.
What makes Transfiguration catastrophic?
Human beings with the capability of changing parts of their appearance at will
What is a metamorphmagi?
Natural laws of the universe that PHYSICALLY prevents us from being able to do certain things.
What is the laws of magic, by definition?
Evanesco.
What is the only spell required to make something vanish?
Minerva McGonagall. Sirius Black. Peter Pettigrew. James Potter. Rita Skeeter.
What are the names of some of the famous Animagi?
“The intended transfiguration is directly influenced by body weight, viciousness, wand power, concentration and a fifth unknown variable.”
What do you say when you are asked to explain the transfiguration formula?
Mostly done for transformations, as vanishment cannot be undone and things that are conjured disappear naturally after a matter of time
What is untransfiguration?
They simply mimic the appearance of life while they are conjured.
What are conjured plants and/or animals?
Leaf of a Mandrake plant.
What do aspiring Animagus needs to keep under their tongue for a whole month?