If you transfigure your cat into a stepstool are you still an animal rights activist?

[veganhothead]

Dumb question, right? No nice witch would ever do that to their cat, even for a minute.

But is there any gray area? Is it wrong to transfigure a turtle into a teakettle? Why don't you just buy a damn teakettle! Do witches and wizards really need to transfigure animals into inanimate objects? Or am I pondering needlessly here?

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[kcontheroad]

It's possible that the cat might conceivably LIKE being a stepstool. Well, maybe not a stepstool. But my cat clearly wants to be my pillow. WANTS it. The purring nearly gives me a scalp massage. As long as I turned him back from time to time so that he can do the other things he loves to do, such as eat, sleep, and poop, then I could see transfiguring him from time to time. McG turns animals into water goblets. As an animagus, she must be attuned to the feelings of animals. I like to believe that transfiguration itself is painless, though I agree that being transfigured into a teakettle is definitely right out.

[veganhothead]

Yeah, you're probably right about McG. I'd still rather just transform a bag of flour into a teakettle if there was some sort of tea emergency.