Gamp`s law of elemental transfiguration is a fundamental property of magic that identifies what can and cannot be invoked. In general, this axiom says you can`t create something out of nothing. Number 5 is pure speculation, mind you, but after my research, I believe the answer is power. You can`t just wave your wand and give yourself or another individual a bigger magic core. Food is canon. But the key here, I believe, is that you can`t create good food. I think you could create a turkey sandwich, but it would be like eating air or dust or something. It would have no nutritional or filling value. (That`s why the Weasleys had good food, but were always hungry).

You can summon food if you know where it is, such as food in the Great Hall prepared by house elves and placed on identical tables under the Great Hall and called. It can also be replicated and enlarged (Engorgio spell). “Food is one of the first of the five major exceptions to Gamp`s law of elementary transfiguration. It is impossible to make good food from nothing! You can summon it if you know where it is, you can transform it, you can increase the amount if you already have something – “– Hermione Granger to Ron Weasley (DH15). McGonagall summoned food from elsewhere when she presented Snape`s office with an endless plate of sandwiches from the Hogwarts kitchens. [9] Rubeus Hagrid created additional food by using engorgement charms on pre-existing pumpkins. [10] As one of the main exceptions to Gamp`s law of elementary transfiguration, good food cannot be “pulled out of nowhere” but can be multiplied if one already has food to propagate, it can be enlarged, or the food can be invoked if one knows the approximate location. Anyway, there`s a lot of interesting speculation about what the other four exceptions might be, but what matters now is one of the five we know: in the Potterverse, food can`t be mentioned. Convened, yes; multiplied, yes; transformed, yes; but not summoned if you have nothing at first. Even the space required could not do it: its response to a request for food is to give access to that food, but not to the item itself. This is why using a Horcrux is so dangerous. Once a part of your soul disappears, it will never come back.

This is also the reason why a person who has died once can never return. They exist only in memory, and no real part of them can ever return. The soul cannot be changed, modified or created, neither by transfiguration nor by other means, except to be broken into fragments by the darkest acts of black magic. This means that the requirement room can`t suddenly turn into a restaurant, no matter how much you need it. We got closest to the magical appearance of food, the enchanted plates of the Christmas ball, but we can assume that some kind of fanciful incantation spell was placed on them. 4) Knowledge: I believe my reasons are very similar to your “thinking” reasons. You cannot create knowledge by magic. Perhaps there is a way to find an answer to a question. Or even the looter`s card, which “summons” people`s names. But you can`t just create it.

The wording of Gamp`s law was not exactly known, but food, as one of its main exceptions, meant that it could not be created out of nothing. Therefore, one could reasonably conclude that Gamp`s law is somehow related to incantation, the branch of transfiguration that involves the creation of physical matter out of nothing. It can also be inferred that the other four exceptions are different categories of substances that cannot be created from scratch. [1] The most recent example of how magic and food interact in Rowling`s rules is: magic energyMagic energy is the second major exception. While it`s hard to understand his mind at first, it`s an exception that should make physical sense once I`ve explained it. I mentioned last week that matter cannot be created or destroyed. This also applies to energy and, to some extent, our innate magical power. We can draw this energy from ourselves and the world around us and shape it to perform spells, but there is currently no physical way to fill something with self-sustaining magical energy if it doesn`t have it from the beginning. This means that we cannot summon materials, plants or animals that have a natural magical ability. It is impossible to transform or summon a dragon whose heartstring could be used to give strength to a wand or phoenix whose tears contain healing powers. It is impossible to give a Muggle or Squib the ability to do magic. Many of you are probably wondering, “Well, what about magical items?” You`ll learn more about them in your Charms class, but these items are only charmed to make an impact.

These stimuli can eventually fade because they are not a natural part of the object or material itself. Hermione says, “You can`t make good food out of nothing! You can invoke it if you know where it is, you can transform it, you can increase the amount if you already have it. And that pretty much sums up what we know about Gamp`s law and its five exceptions. On May 1, 1998, after Neville Longbottom noticed that the only thing the requirement room apparently could not provide was food, Ron commented that food was one of the five main exceptions to this law, to “everyone`s amazement.” [11] All witches under the age of 17 must live with the unexplored frustration of not being able to do magic outside of school, except in extenuating circumstances. When you`re with an adult witch or wizard, you can sometimes graft their magic – for example, if you need gadgets somewhere, but at the end of the day, it`s a boring life to wash dishes by hand until that special birthday. But Lord Voldemort goes above and beyond and dives into the most despicable ways to magically prolong his life – like drinking unicorn blood and crafting Horcruxes through murder. Voldemort is paying the ultimate price for his actions – and he goes far beyond imprisonment in Azkaban. The water produced by the Aguamenti spell is clearly drinkable (Harry was confident enough to be willing to give it to Dumbledore without fear of poisoning him if the spell on the shell did not force him to take water from the lake instead), and yet, although the human body could not survive very long without it, Gamp`s law obviously does not consider it food.

He provided us with food, because for some reason that`s the only thing the room doesn`t really do. “Yes, well, food is one of the five exceptions to Gamp`s law of elementary transfiguration,” Ron said to everyone`s amazement. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Today we are going to discuss the five main exceptions to Gamp`s Law. These exceptions tell us what we cannot do in the science of transfiguration, especially incantation. While there may be other things regulated by man-made magic law (laws created by the Ministry of Magic that restrict what we are legally allowed to do), the laws of magic (the natural laws of the universe that physically prevent us from doing certain things) are the five main exceptions. These main exceptions are food, magical energy, love, life, and knowledge. Each is described in detail below. There is very little explicit about the mechanics of Rowling`s “Potterverse”. The five exceptions to Gamp`s law of elementary transfiguration are considered things that cannot be evoked from nothing or transfigured from unrelated objects. The only exception that is really taken into account is food, as you said. The other four are the subject of speculation.

No, I can`t find any loopholes here. An unidentified creamy sauce is not one of the four elements, does not really have any additional symbolic meaning, nothing, nada, zilch. It`s food. And it seems to come out of nowhere. No wonder Ron was convinced she could. Could it be because water was considered one of the four elements that make up everything in the universe, and therefore has a special magical meaning that makes it an exception to the exception? I have a headache. I seem to remember that J.K. Rowling worked out in advance the rules of how magic works in her universe, but I do not completely exclude the fact that the scenes in question were simply written before she thought about Gamp`s Law, and were never cut.