Violet took a few moments to gather her thoughts, then concentrated harder this time on how magpies looked (not hermagpie, just any magpie), banishing any emotional attachments the the back of her mind. Then she cast the spell again, with its interesting wand movements: "Avis! And lo and behold, this time a swarm of slender, black and white magpies came from her wand and flew about wildly. But Violet was ready for them this time. "Immobulus!" she cast at the disorderly little flock, and watched them all freeze motionless in the air.

One by one, she plucked them out of the air and placed them in the cage, being careful not to let the blackbirds already in there get out whenever she opened the door. Once she had all the new birds lying on the floor of the cage, she pointed her wand down at them and cast: "Finite Incantatum!" But to her dismay, the magpies all disappeared, leaving only the original blackbirds still flying around at the top of the cage.

Oh. Of course, "Finite" ends a spell. Any spell, And the birds were just a spell of her, not real. So, freezing them to get them into the cage was not an option. Well, she'd try again--at least she'd been able to get the birds right this time--and just try her best to get as many of them into the cage as she could.