So that was how it was. So that was how it was. And that was all there was to it.
The wisp of fog that had troubled Ian for so long was silently dispelled at that moment. He saw that the road ahead was not merely a climb toward the mountaintop.
There was also... the scenery in the heavens after the clouds and mist had cleared.
"Wizard is Deity..."
Clearly.
It compared wizards to beings possessing power akin to that of gods. Thus, bestowing rules upon matter as God did became something wizards could naturally do.
"If new rules are being bestowed, then why does Transfiguration eventually lose its effect..." Ian did not voice the doubt in his heart.
Because in the next moment, he had already figured out the answer himself.
Wizard is Deity. The deity in those words was actually the innate magic power possessed by wizards. Magic power belonged to oneself, which was itself a manifestation of great power residing within the individual.
Every form of material distortion, every redefinition of material form, originated from magic power at work. Magic power, as the "deity," distorted and rewrote the Creator's rules.
When magic power existed within a transfigured object, it could be seen as new rules overriding the old ones. Naturally, it could change everything at will.
However.
Once separated from the wizard, magic power would eventually be depleted and vanish. Perhaps it was the material world correcting itself, or perhaps there were other reasons.
In short, once the magic power changing an object had been completely exhausted, the rules it had overridden would naturally reveal their original form once more. Just as Lily Potter's Transfiguration lost its effect the moment she died.
Because the source of the magic power no longer existed.
Even if it had not