[HPforGrownups] Re: Accio

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 7160

Christian said:

> We learn in GoF, when they practise banishing-charms, that it works on
> humans (Neville missed his pillow, instead hitting Professor Flitwick,
> who flew across the classroom landing on top of a cupboard).  I would
> suspect that banishing and summoning works on the same basic theory,
> but applying it differently - thus summoning will work on people when
> banishing works on people. [truncated]

I'm not sure I agree with that.  I'd say a banishing charm is likely to be
an aggressive spell whilst summoning would be used mainly for acquisition
(although both could be for the purposes of protection).  In a combat
situation banishing someone would surely be more useful than summoning them,
i.e. you'd want to push or hurl your adversary away from you.  On the other
hand, summoning inanimate objects, such as weapons, would be more useful
than banishing them.

Neil
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