Template:A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration - Snufflifors

Having thrice gone from the animate to the inanimate, we shall now reverse the process with a spell to create mice from books. Be warned, however, that this spell is known to every faculty member here, as is the fact that it is taught in the first year, so "Mice ate my homework" will not go down well with myself or my colleagues.

"Snufflifors" is a simple enough incantation, I trust, but the wand movement will, I think, require some practice, and, if experience is any guide, space, and possible visits to the Hospital Wing. The wand movement, and please make sure you have at least five feet of fresh air around you when you run through this, is a dramatic sweep, rising across the body - thus! Obviously, I'm right-handed, so it'll be the other way around for anyone left-handed, but a rising, energetic crossbody movement in any case.

So, spread out into your own little circle, put a book on the floor, and try it. "Snufflifors", and sweep!