Originally Posted by Waddles

Attention drawn from the feathers to a boy's question, Professor Svensson gave the Gryffindor boy a small smile before beginning to answer the question. "Conjuring objects from nowhere and making vanished objects re-appear are not quite the same, but generally they are regarded as such," he said slowly. "Most people think of them as one and the same, due to their sharing many incantations. For example, if I wanted to conjure a chair, I'd use the same spell as if I wanted to make a chair I'd vanished re-appear. The difference is that a conjured chair would eventually disappear, whereas the chair I'd made re-appear would remain intact." Hmm... Lars could ramble, it seemed. "Does that make sense?"