Revising the exceptions to Gamp’s Law of Elemental Transfiguration
12th November 1971 | Lady Zoelle Gamp, Mrs Florence Lane, and Mr Tobias Roberts.
Gamp’s Law of Elemental Transfiguration states, fundamentally, that something cannot be created from nothing. Its five exceptions are also widely known: food, money, body parts, potion ingredients and wands. Even so, you can certainly conjure certain objects from what is called “thin-air” without having to summon it from else-where.
After thorough investigation in every wizarding library that could be found, here and in the continent, our attention was turned towards muggle ‘science’. While reading their findings we found a concept that may be familiar to those who have dabbed onto alchemy: atoms and elements. Muggles believe that atoms make up all matter, air being also matter, so truly when you are conjunring you actually are transforming the atoms into a new shape.
That became a new question, why can’t you conjure anything? While this needs a proper magical explanation and further research, according to muggle science atoms are arranged in molecules of differents degrees of complexity, which could explain why we can cojure water with an Aguamenti spell, but not food.
