"i personally believe charms is very similar to transfiguration; however, they could never be the same thing. In most cases charms can change the physical appearance or behavior of an object, it cannot change what an object is. Like you can send things away from you with a banishing charm but you cannot make them disapear. Also with a charm you can make something with nothing but your wand, like water and fire. With transfiguration you need an item to transfigure into something else. Now where the line really draws thin is with incendio because putting something on fire changes w=it's chemical makeup as it burns into the object into a new substance and in transfiguration you are changing an object into a whole new substance and back again. The damage of fire can't be reversed however there are some charms that can. I guess the only true difference is that charms can never never make a living thing into a whole new subatance.", Chloe responded rambling out an answer she hoped made some sense.