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'''Vanishment''' is the art of causing thing to vanish (making things go into non-being). |
'''Vanishment''' is the art of causing thing to vanish (making things go into non-being). |
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Vanishment is the art of causing thing to vanish (making things go into non-being).
Nature
Vanishment is moderately difficult - learnt in Fourth Year and up - and is considered one of the hardest transfigurations to be tested on in one's O.W.L. and the difficulty of the vanishment to be performed positively correlates with the complexity of the organism to be vanished (for example, invertebrates are easier to Vanish than vertebrates)
Methods
There are several methods one can employ to Vanish an object, described below.
Vanishing Spells
Unlike conjuring spells, vanishing spells all follow the same formula of "X Evanesco", where X is the name of the object to be vanished and Evanesco is Latin for "disappear".
The Vanishing Cabinet
The Vanishing Cabinet is a special piece of furniture in Hogwarts that randomly vanishes & reappears. As such, it be used to vanish things for a variable but finite (since the cabinet always reappears sooner or later).
The Room of Requirement
Like the Vanishing Cabinet the Room of Requirement also appears and reappears, but in accordance with one's wishes. Things left in the Room after one no longer has need of it will be Vanished along with the Room itself until a later date (when one has need of that specific object).
Behind the scenes
- Vanishing sickness is a wizarding illness treated at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. Is is unknown is vanishing is the cause or effect of this illness though it appears to be related to the contraction of some sort of magical bug (since it is treated in the "Magical Bugs" section of St. Mungo's).