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[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 7282

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Neil Ward" <neilward at d...> wrote:
> 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
> _____________________________________
> 


Hmmmm..hard for me not to talk about this in terms of real magic.
Focus on what you want exactly is the key to real magic. (was 
listening to a tape of Gerald Gardner explaining this). In real 
magic, banishing would be easier...you are basically doing a 
protection spell....or a bounce off spell...which requires much less 
energy than summoning something!

You need to either have personal magical power (rare) or raise energy.
The words/props, etc. ARE used as methods by which to focus your
consciousness..hopes this makes sense......