If I remember right, it’s implied that botched Transfiguration is a painful way to go—it’s compared to a severe illness. If its consequences are sufficiently well-known and unpleasant, it could be that it’s not attractive as a suicide method.
On the other hand, Transfiguring your brain into aspic or something like that sounds pretty quick and reliable to me. Perhaps that’s difficult for technical reasons.
If you press your wand to your body and imagine yourself with golden hair, afterward your hair will fall out. If you visualize yourself as someone with clearer skin, you will be taking a long stay at St. Mungo’s. And if you Transfigure yourself into an adult bodily form, then, when the Transfiguration wears off, you will die.”
If I remember right, it’s implied that botched Transfiguration is a painful way to go—it’s compared to a severe illness. If its consequences are sufficiently well-known and unpleasant, it could be that it’s not attractive as a suicide method.
On the other hand, Transfiguring your brain into aspic or something like that sounds pretty quick and reliable to me. Perhaps that’s difficult for technical reasons.
Most likely Transfiguring only your brain or a single organ would fall under partial Transfiguration, which presents the obvious challenge.
Chapter 15: