The English writer Joan Rowling invented the magical world of magicians, or, in other words, the world of Harry Potter. This world exists parallel to the world of ordinary people and in many ways is similar to it. In it, children also need to attend school, with the only difference being that they teach magic in it. One of the main subjects in this educational institution is transfiguration. This discipline gives young wizards the basics of magical skill. So, welcome to the Hogwarts Academy of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Transfiguration in everyday life
Before plunging into the fictional world of magicians and sorcerers, we will look at our world in which we ceased to notice wonderful and incomprehensible phenomena. Natural transfiguration is considered one of these phenomena. These are hidden and time-stretched processes of the origin of man, animals and plants, their development, aging and death.
For example, a tadpole can become a fish or a frog - this will be clear only when in the process of transformation it reaches adulthood. Transfiguration will continue further, that is, changes with the body will occur until death.
An example of transfiguration in our world is also natural change. For example, water in its usual state has a liquid form, heating turns it into gas, and low temperatures transform it into ice.
These phenomena have become commonplace for us, but the magic of nature can be felt if these processes are compressed in time, as in a fast shooting.
This concept is also used in computer games. For example, the transfiguration in "Aion 5.1" offers a technology for creating unique items for higher daevas.
Who studies the science of transfiguration
But back to the wizards and their difficult workdays. Children of wizards from 11 years old get to Hogwarts where they study magic. For this, there are school programs with the necessary subjects. From the first courses, children are introduced to transfiguration - a discipline that teaches the methods of change, transformation, creation of objects by the power of the magician's magic.
It should be noted that the science of transformations is complex and diverse. Not many wizards have excelled in this direction. One of the best was the director of the Hogwarts school, Albus Dumbledore, and his deputy professor of transfiguration, Minerva McGonagall.
The history of the concept of transfiguration dates back to 289 BC, when Azira Iyen, the Greek wizard, divided the unified science of witchcraft into several sections. This was done because they relied on various laws. So, witchcraft has been divided into industries that study transfiguration, enchantment, and defensive magic.
Science of transformations
Transfiguration is a science that studies how magical power can transform one object into another. In order for the transformation to occur, two conditions are necessary: matter and the spell.
Young wizards must learn to distinguish between objects, that is, matter, to know the process of witchcraft from the inside and apply the necessary words of spells. If at least one element is missing, then this can no longer be called transfiguration. Everything is important in the process of transformation. When turning a paper crane into a living bird, you need to understand that a paper crane and a bird are material objects, and restructuring the structure of a paper crane into an organism of a real bird where life is possible is a transformation process. But all this will not be possible without the magician, his magical power and spell.
At the initial stage, simple things are explained in the school: for example, it is customary to consider matter as the initial object and the final result of witchcraft. Matter can be animate and inanimate, man and animal also belong to this category.
Non-living matter is considered to be all objects in which there is no life. Animate matter includes all animals over which magical manipulations were not carried out. When the end result is presented in the form of a beast - this is animagia. In the process of transformation, this living creature is considered magical, because it appeared with the help of magic. Matter man is when a wizard acts as matter.
The witchcraft process has three characteristics:
- Transition time. An inexperienced student will spend on the transition from 30 seconds to several minutes. A magician with experience of five seconds is enough.
- The purity of the transition also depends on experience. Errors are possible at the initial stage, i.e., the attributes of the original object remain on the final matter. For example, when a mouse is turned into a cup, instead of a pen, the cup may have a mouse tail.
- The transition state looks like overflowing or merging. Overflowing is a smooth transition from one state to another. During the merging, a clot appears, from which the features of a new object begin to emerge.
Spells, or transforming spells, also have their own characteristics:
- The base spell is the foundation, the sending of magical energy, through which the transformation takes place. It starts the conversion process, but has only the general features of the final result.
- Glyph of Spell. Concrete representation of the base spell.
- Enchanting What matters here is the correct pronunciation of the words and the movement of the magic wand.
- The effect of enchanting shows how much magic has taken place. It manifests itself in the form of a bright flash, a green ray, sparks, etc.
There are other magical operations that are similar to transformations, but are not. For example, getting a healing tincture from chamomile: there is matter - chamomile and tincture, there is a conversion process, but there is no spell. Not all tinctures are obtained through a natural transition, sometimes wizards receive a potion using a spell, but another science deals with it - potions, which does not apply to transfiguration.
The science of transformations is divided into two large subgroups: self-transformation, where the wizard himself is transformed, and elementary transfigurations. Self-transformation, in turn, is divided into animagia (transformation into a beast), metamorphism (transformation into another person), morphmagy (transformation into an inanimate object).
G. Gump Law
Like any science, transfiguration is based on fundamental laws. One of the main laws of transfiguration is G. Gump's law, which states that everything can be turned into everything and brought back.
For successful transfiguration, the following conditions are required:
- The object must be material. He must have a form, color, be tangible and present in the material world. For example, a lamp, it can be seen and felt, but love is not. Unfortunately, it will not work to conjure love.
- The item has a simple, non-magical nature. It is impossible to turn a branch into a magic wand, just like a magic wand cannot be converted into a branch.
- The subject can be counted. For example, there may be one pencil, second, third, etc., but water, gas or feelings cannot be counted.
- The item must be single, because the energy of the magic wand is directed to one item. For example, one pen can be turned into a broom, and a set of pens cannot be converted immediately to a set of panicles, if only individually.
- The subject must exist by itself, that is, be separate. It is impossible to transform only the wing of a bird without affecting it itself. The whole bird is a material object, and the wing is part of it.
G. Gump's transfiguration law has five exceptions. They are also called the law of the impossibility of transfiguration. There are five objects that cannot be transformed:
- Food. It is impossible to transform, because food obtained through magic does not possess the necessary qualities. Outwardly, the final object will look like food, but inside there will be a void. You won’t be fed up with air.
- Human. There is no way to rebuild the structure of the stool into a complex human body so that it has a soul with a certain character, mind, emotions, etc.
- Magical objects. As already mentioned, you can not turn a twig into a magic wand and vice versa, convert a magic wand into a twig.
- Money and jewelry. Only external similarity is possible without internal fullness.
- Time. It will not work to turn an old man into a young man, just like transforming a baby into a mature person, but making magic new things is quite possible.
Other laws of transfiguration
Labor law
Is it possible to make a slide 2 meters high out of one snowflake? In practice, this is not feasible, since it requires large amounts of energy. No experienced magician will agree to this. Ideally, if the transformation object and the final object have the same size and similar shape. However, this does not always work out, therefore, the permissible limit for transformation is one to three, when the original object, turning into another, increases three times. This is a recommendation and not a prohibition. If a magician has rich experience and great magical power, then he can turn small objects into very large ones. But this is aerobatics.
The law of inconstancy of transformations
The spell has its expiration date. Since any matter tends to return to its original form, the time it takes to save the transformation will depend on the strength and experience of the wizard. So, older students, whose acquaintance with transfiguration lasted for 7 years, can transform a table into a bed for a period of 2 to 10 days. For beginners and lazy people, the object will last from 10 seconds to 2 days. And high-class wizards are not limited in time. They decide how long the spell should last, after which the item spontaneously comes to its original position.
Adalbert Waffling Transfiguration Types
Elementary transfiguration is divided into simple, complex, complete, transfiguration of the elements and the living.
The simplest transfiguration studies the transformations of inanimate objects. As a result of the transformation, an inanimate object also remains inanimate. A pen became a pencil, a table became a sofa, a door became a shelf - all these are examples of simple transformations.
The simplest transformation is of three types:
- External transfiguration. With external transformation, only the form changes, but the material remains the same. The transformation of a wooden board into a casket is an example of an external simple transformation: the material is the same, but the form is different.
- Internal transfiguration. It does not affect the form, but changes the internal composition. The magician turned a wooden table into a plastic one: the shape of the table remained the same, but the material changed.
- Complete transfiguration. This transformation changes the inner and outer sides of objects: an iron kettle turns into a porcelain tureen.
The transfiguration of the living transforms one non-magical animal into another. A relatively young industry, the transfiguration of the elements is studying how to convert fire into air, water to earth, etc., as well as the conversion of sunlight into fire, air, water and earth.
Complex transfiguration is carried out in two directions: the transformation of living into inanimate, and vice versa, inanimate into living.
The basic spell of the simplest transformations is the word “Ferovertum”, and the way of enchanting, that is, swinging a magic wand in the air, is expressed in the outline of a figure similar to the letter M.
External change of object
External transfiguration deals with changes to the visible parameters of the object. Acquaintance of students with its features begins with the first courses. By changing the external image of an object, the wizard can experiment with color, shape and size. In addition, there are more complex changes: cosmetic transfiguration, metamorphism, magic of invisibility and disappearance.
Changing colors and sizes is possible with almost all objects. Transfiguration of geometric shapes and vice versa, i.e., the transformation of forms is applied only to inanimate objects. In all cases, the exception is a person. The Ministry of Magic has introduced such a restriction for security purposes.
Special cases of external transformations
Cosmetic transfiguration involves changing the color and size of some parts of a person's face: eyes, skin and hair. In addition, a cosmetologist magician can change the volume of internal organs and heal them. In order for cosmetic and medical operations to be long-lasting, special spells are used.
The invisibility process makes the object transparent, although it remains in place. With special spells, you can merge an object with a background: it remains visible, but against the general background it is difficult to detect.
The magic of extinction completely destroys the object, it is dangerous because the object cannot be returned back. The process of extinction affects living and non-living objects, except for man. Therefore, novice wizards practice this kind of magic under the guidance of a teacher in the transfiguration office.
With the help of metamorphism, a wizard can change his appearance without any spells: skin, eyes, hair, arms, etc. Metamorphism is impossible to learn - this is a genetic feature of some magicians. All changes come from one willpower. Little wizards with such a gift are easy to recognize: when they are sad, their hair spontaneously turns gray, and vice versa, in joy, the hair can be in rainbow colors. Therefore, in school, at the lessons of transfiguration, they are taught to control such manifestations of metamorphism.
Internal change
Internal changes of the object occur inside the outer shell without affecting it. The voice, the internal organs of the organism of living creatures and the material of inanimate objects are subject to modification.
A magician, transforming a voice, can increase or decrease the volume, change the timbre, make a person dumb or give another voice. For example, the frog will meow, and the nightingale will croak, etc. Also, wizards are amused by endowing animals with inanimate objects: a chair suddenly crowes like a rooster, and the sofa barks like a dog. Only a human voice cannot be transmitted to animals and inanimate objects.
In high school, students can optionally study colomedicine in transfiguration lessons. As in cosmetic transfiguration, organs are changed here: with the help of spells, broken bones are healed, dislocations are corrected, bleeding is stopped, and rupture of ligaments and tissues is eliminated. To fix the result forever, at the end of the procedure impose special charms, which then can not be changed. Since internal transformations are difficult to track, the magicians themselves prefer to use herbs and ointments in the treatment of patients, resorting to the help of transfiguration in extreme cases.
Complete change
Complete transfiguration involves an internal and external change of an object, and this is the most difficult. There are four types of complete transformation:
- Transmutation is the transformation of an inanimate object into another inanimate. It is simple to execute and has special consequences, because inanimate objects do not feel anything.
- Animorphism turns one living creature into another. This is a laborious process of transformation, because living beings are complex and multifunctional in their structure. During witchcraft, both the magician and the person who underwent a transformation experience heavy loads. The magician spends a lot of magical energy for such a transformation. A living being who has received a new body forgets everything and lives in the present moment until he returns to his original image.
- Polymorphism turns a dead material object into a living organism, such as a plate into a fish, and vice versa. The magician who is engaged in such transformations must remember the great responsibility to those whom he transforms. A living creature, having become a tree or a fork, does not remember its past life, and cannot return to its body on its own. Conversely, before that, the candlestick had no emotional life, and having become a kid, he needs to learn life. Moreover, somewhere in the depths of memory there is a trace of the existence of a candlestick in the image.
- Creative transfiguration is the creation of objects from nothing. The magician’s creativity is not limited only to his fantasies and is carried out in two ways: using the formula for free creation and ready-made spells.
Bring everything back
Wizards are not always able to return the transformed item to its original form. Therefore, before conjuring, he must know for sure that, if necessary, he is able to return the item to its original state.
There is a natural detransfiguration: the spell dissipates after the depletion of magical powers. , . , , - .
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