Evanesco Differedeo

Spell Name: Time-Skip Spell

Incantation: Evanesco Differedeo

Pronunciation: ev-an-ES-koh dif-er-RE-day-oh

Spell Branch: Transfiguration

Magical Discipline(s): Enchantments

Appearance: Invisible, but faint blue light accompanies the target on its return. The wand motions end with a spiraling circle movement.

Description: The target object vanishes but is set to reappear from where it left after a delay of time, essentially sending it into the future.

When the target object “returns” there is a blink-miss-it flash of pale blue light. The time delay is built in increments of five minutes and the total time gone must have five as a factor. The longer the time delay, the harder the spell is to cast, so the caster must concentrate on the amount of time the target is gone.

Inexperienced casters may vanish the object permanently. The complexity of the object itself can also add issues. Objects with powerful magical powers (e.g. Time-Turners, the Sorting Hat, the Deathly Hollows, etc.) are unaffected by this spell.

Common, non-magical creatures can be also sent to the future with this spell. However, magical creatures resist and may reappear after a few seconds to a minute or not disappear at all.

Regulations: Controlled

Skill Level: Advanced

Etymology: Comes from "evanescence", something that is fleeting or disappears, and the Latin evanesco, "disappear". “Differedeo” is a portmantu of differo, “delay”, and redeo, “come back”.

References:

• A continuation of the Vanishing Spell

Notes:

• Once complete, the spell cannot be undone nor the target returned before the allotted time as it exists in “nothingness.” Therefore the only way to stop the spell would be to prevent its casting.
• Use of this spell is kept within the Dept. of Mysteries and the Time Travel Investigation and Regulation Bureau