Banishing-Charm

> The Banishing Charm is the opposite of the Summoning Charm, and causes objects to fly away from the person casting the spell, towards a specific target.
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> Description of the Banishing Charm

The **Banishing Charm** (*Depulso*) was a charm that sent the target away from the caster. It could send a target towards a specific location and worked on both living beings and inanimate objects. The Banishing Charm was opposite of the Summoning Charm. Template:Real Magical Spell
Unlike the Summoning Charm, which could summon specific objects from anywhere, the Banishing Charm only banished whatever the wand was aimed at.

## Effects

The Banishing Charm was used to push targets, both living beings and inanimate objects towards a specific location. If a caster's aim was poor the charm would banish random objects or people to various locations around the room. The fact that it could be used against living beings made it useful in a duel, as shown by Severus Snape in an ***alternate reality***.

## History

***Herodiana Byrne*** was known historically as "the single greatest *Depulso* master of all time". Allegedly, she had rescued a group of orphans from a wild ***Graphorn*** by banishing it over ***Stonehenge*** on ***Salisbury Plain*** in ***Wiltshire***, and defeated a Dark wizard in the ***Alps***, who was purported to have been sent flying all the way to ***Durmstrang Castle*** in the far north of ***Europe***, although ***Sophronia Franklin***, a Ravenclaw student in the late ***19th century***, believed that the power of Byrne's Banishing Charm in the latter account was exaggerated. The ***Hall of Herodiana*** was originally created by her as a place to practise the charm.
***Third-year*** and ***fourth-year*** students in ***Charms class*** at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry learnt this spell. Harry Potter and his classmates practised this spell in their fourth-year Charms class. Students like Harry and Hermione Granger proved to be very good at this spell, with their cushions landing in the correct area, however Professor Flitwick found himself being thrown around the room by Neville Longbottom, whose aim with the charm was not very good.

## Known uses

 Severus Snape | ***Alternate reality*** | Used the spell to knock back ***Dolores Umbridge*** in an ***alternate reality*** set up by the experimental ***Time-Turner***.

## Known practitioners

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## Etymology

From the Latin "depulsio", meaning "driving/pushing away". Also is similar to repulse meaning "drive/push away with force", although this is a precise antonym to attract, literally "pull towards". It could also be seen to be derived from the English word pulse (as in a pulse of energy) and the prefix "de" which would make it mean "a negative pulse of energy".

## Notes and references

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## See also

* Knockback Jinx
* Summoning Charm