Made even more probable by McGonagall having told the class in her introduction on transfiguration that goblins have ways of finding out who transfigured a false coin.
I assumed that, but it’s a little unclear how hard that is to do. Could they pick up the signature of a transfigured item in the pouch if they can’t figure out how to get it out of the pouch? If the ring were a transfigured item, what are the odds the detection method would pick that up without a specific decision to scan the ring?
The more I think about it, the more it seems likely Hermione’s body is in the pouch. The pouch has funny rules that Harry has investigated with unusual thoroughness, and he might be able to exploit that to create a situation where no one but him is likely to be able to figure out the right word to say to retrieve Hermione’s body.
Particularly since, given Harry’s investigations into the pouch, “Hermione’s body” or at the very least “Hermione’s transfigured body” should fetch it for you no matter what you’ve hidden it as. The pouch isn’t an extra way of hiding something, its a particularly handy way of finding hidden things.
It appears that transfigured items have a detectable magical signature indicating they are transfigured.
Made even more probable by McGonagall having told the class in her introduction on transfiguration that goblins have ways of finding out who transfigured a false coin.
I assumed that, but it’s a little unclear how hard that is to do. Could they pick up the signature of a transfigured item in the pouch if they can’t figure out how to get it out of the pouch? If the ring were a transfigured item, what are the odds the detection method would pick that up without a specific decision to scan the ring?
The more I think about it, the more it seems likely Hermione’s body is in the pouch. The pouch has funny rules that Harry has investigated with unusual thoroughness, and he might be able to exploit that to create a situation where no one but him is likely to be able to figure out the right word to say to retrieve Hermione’s body.
Dumbledore can simply reach into that pouch to grab what he needs.
Particularly since, given Harry’s investigations into the pouch, “Hermione’s body” or at the very least “Hermione’s transfigured body” should fetch it for you no matter what you’ve hidden it as. The pouch isn’t an extra way of hiding something, its a particularly handy way of finding hidden things.
Or rather, it would be foolish to presume he did not—Dumbledore is a seriously powerful wizard, after all.