Template:A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration - Reparifarge

It may seem to some of you as if we are beginning at the end, but the mark of any competent wand wielder is in many ways little different from that of a good Healer - the ability to restore the status quo, and undo whatever effects you may have caused. Thus we shall commence with the spell which unweaves the effects of a Transfiguration, botched, undesired or merely no longer necessary as the case may be, and returns affairs to their natural and original state.

The incantation is, as any of you bright enough to have looked at the top of the page will already know, "Reparifarge". The wand movement is, however, somewhat more challenging. For the most efficacious casting of this spell, the wielder must "break" and "reverse" the wand movements of the original incantation, performing a two-part counter to the first flow of the wand. If this is either not known or possible, or is, for some obscure reason, undesirable, a "swirl and stab" will generally, though inelegantly, get the job done. This particular manoeuvre I myself label "the Finnegan", in memory of its most common practitioner.