[OOC Note: This appears to pick up out of nowhere and then break off just as suddenly almost as if he was switching between tabs to refer to notes and didn't check that he was back in the correct tab when he started typing again.]however as with any magical principle there are exceptions and over the course of thousands of years of research, inadvertent and deliberate, five exceptions have been discovered to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration. These five exceptions have a tendency to come as a severe disappointment to many a student who was hoping to make their life much easier once they had graduated. However, while magic is a powerful tool indeed, it has its limitations and a wise witch or wizard learns to live within them.
The five exceptions to Gamp's Law come under the headings of Food, Money, Magic, Life and Love and we shall deal with each of these in turn over the course of this lecture. I must warn you that a great deal of what we will discuss with these exceptions will seem very strange and even illogical and counter-intuitive. It is not unusual for the more experimental among us to develop new spells and charms and hexes through trial and error and neglect to do the due diligence in regards to the theory. The magical world also has a regrettable tendency to simply accept that a spell works without worrying too much about the how and why and what behind it. Theoretical research often follows discovery instead of preceding it.
So we shall begin our discussion with Food. Food cannot be created from nothing. It can be summoned to you, if you know where it is. It can be duplicated or the amount enlarged if you already possess it. It can be transfigured into different types of food. But if your cupboard is bare then bare it must remain. I must elaborate at this point by saying that a
semblance of food can be created by transfiguring an existing object into said food however what is created possesses no nutritional value and there is a risk that it will revert back into its original state once eaten. Many a foolish witch or wizard has either starved to death or caused themselves internal damage doing this. It must also be taken into account that