Spell List

These are the spells that your characters can use. If your character hasn't learnt them in school yet, they cannot use them.

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• Accio (Summoning Charm)
  Description: This charm summons an object to the caster, potentially over a significant distance. Its opposite is the Banishing Charm.
  
  
• Aguamenti (Aguamenti Charm)
  Description: Produces a jet of water from the caster's wand.
  
  
• Alohomora
  Description: Used to open and/or unlock doors, but doors can be bewitched so that this spell has no effect.
  
  
• Anapneo
  Description: Clears the target's airway, if blocked.
  
  
• (Anti-Cheating Spell)
  Description: Cast on parchment or quills to prevent the writer from cheating whilst writing answers.
  
  
• (Anti-Disapparition Jinx)
  Description: Used to prevent Disapparition and/or Apparition in an area for a period. Presumably can be used to prevent an enemy from entering a defended area, or used to trap an enemy in an area.
  
  
• (Antonin Dolohov's Curse)
  Description: Creates a streak of purple flames, causing serious injury without external symptoms.
  
  
• Aparecium
  Description: This spell makes invisible ink appear.
  
  
• Avada Kedavra (Killing Curse)
  Description: Causes instant, painless death to whomever the curse hits. There is no countercurse or method of blocking this spell; however, if someone sacrifices their life for someone else, the person who was saved will not encounter any adverse effects of any curses by the specific attacker (e.g. when Lily Potter sacrificed her life for Harry Potter at Voldemort's hands, Harry became immune to curses cast by Voldemort). One of the three Unforgivable Curses.
  Survivors: Only two people in the history of the magical world are known to have survived the killing curse – Harry Potter and Voldemort; the latter was only saved by his horcruxes. Harry was hit twice directly. Phoenixes can also survive a killing curse. They burst into flame as they would do in old age and are reborn from the ashes. This occurred in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
  
  
• Avis
  Description: This charm creates a flock of birds from the caster's wand. When coupled with Oppugno, it can be used offensively.
  
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• (Babbling Curse)
  Description: The Babbling Curse is presumed to cause a person to babble whenever they try to speak.
  
  
• (Banishing Charm)
  Description: Opposite to "Accio". Banishes the object the spell is performed on.
  
  
• (Bat-Bogey Hex)
  Description: Grotesquely enlarges the target's bogeys, gives them wings, and sets them attacking the target.
  
  
• (Bedazzling Hex)
  Description: Similar to a Disillusionment Charm, it can be used to conceal a person or an object. Is also used to make invisibility cloaks.
  
  
• (Bubble-Head Charm)
  Description: Puts a large bubble of air around the head of the user. Used as a magical equivalent of a scuba set.
  
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• (Caterwauling Charm)
  Description: Anyone entering the perimeter of a Caterwauling Charm sets off a high-pitched shriek.
  
  
• Cave Inimicum
  Description: Spell used to strengthen an enclosure from enemies.
  
  
• (Cheering Charm)
  Description: Causes the person upon whom the spell was cast to become happy and contented, though heavy-handedness with the spell may cause the person to break into an uncontrollable laughing fit.
  
  
• Colloportus
  Description: Magically locks a door, preventing it from being opened by Muggle means.
  
  
• (Colour-Change Charm)
  Description: Changes an object's colour.
  
  
• Confringo (Blasting Curse)
  Description: Causes anything that the spell meets to explode in flames.
  
  
• Confundo (Confundus Charm)
  Description: Causes the victim to become confused, befuddled, overly forgetful and prone to follow simple orders without thinking about them.
  
  
• (Conjunctivitus Curse)
  Description: A curse that causes great pain to the victim's eyes.
  
  
• Crucio (Cruciatus Curse)
  Description: Inflicts unbearable pain on the recipient of the curse.One of the three Unforgivable Curses.
  
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• Defodio (Gouging Spell)
  Description: Can carve or dig out materials, such as stone and steel.
  
  
• Deletrius
  Description: Removes evidence of previous spells cast by the wand, revealed by Prior Incantato.
  
  
• Densaugeo
  Description: Causes the teeth of the recipient to grow at an alarming rate.
  
  
• Deprimo
  Description: A very powerful wind that can loosen and/or soften a variety of things; it can also be used to detach objects.
  
  
• Descendo
  Description: To make things sink, or go down.
  
  
• Diffindo (Severing Charm)
  Description: Cuts or rips objects.
  
  
• (Disillusionment Charm)
  Description: Causes the target to become invisible, or close to it.
  
  
• Duro
  Description: Makes the object hard.
  
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• Engorgio (Engorgement Charm)
  Description: Causes objects to swell in size.
  
  
• (Entrail-Expelling Curse)
  Description: Presumably causes the entrails (i.e. intestines) to be ejected from the body.
  
  
• Episkey
  Description: Used to heal relatively minor injuries. When this spell is cast, the person feels his/her injured body part go very hot and then very cold.
  
  
• Erecto
  Description: Used to erect something.
  
  
• Evanesco (Vanishing Spell)
  Description: Makes the target vanish.
  
  
• Expecto Patronum (Patronus Charm)
  Description: Conjures an incarnation of the caster's innermost positive feelings, such as joy or hope, known as a Patronus. A Patronus is conjured as a protector, and is a weapon rather than a predator of souls: Patronuses shield their conjurors from Dementors or Lethifolds, and can even drive them away. They are also used amongst the Order of the Phoenix to send messages. According to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the Charm is the only known defensive spell against Lethifolds.
  
  
• Expelliarmus (Disarming Charm)
  Description: This spell is used to disarm another wizard, typically by causing the victim's wand to fly out of reach.
  
  
• Expulso
  Description: A spell that causes an object to explode. The force of the explosion may depend on the intent of the caster.
  
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• Ferula
  Description: Creates a bandage and a splint.
  
  
• (Fidelius Charm)
  Description: A charm involving secret information hidden within the soul of a Secret-Keeper. This information is irretrievable until the Secret-Keeper chooses to reveal it; those who have the secret revealed to them cannot reveal it to others.
  
  
• (Fiendfyre Curse)
  Description: Dangerous, uncontrollable and extremely powerful fire which can take the form of beasts such as serpents, Chimaeras, and dragons.
  
  
• Finite Incantatem
  Description: Negates many spells or the effects of many spells.
  
  
• (Flagrante Curse)
  Description: Causes any object affected to burn human skin when touched.
  
  
• Flagrate
  Description: With this spell, the caster's wand can leave fiery marks.
  
  
• (Flame-Freezing Charm)
  Description: Causes fire to become harmless to those caught in it, creating only a gentle, tickling sensation instead of burns.
  
  
• (Flying Charm)
  Description: Cast on broomsticks, and (presumably) magic carpets to make them fly.
  
  
• (Freezing Charm)
  Description: Renders target immobile.
  
  
• Furnunculus (Furnunculus Curse)
  Description: Causes the target to become covered in boils.
  
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• Geminio
  Description: Creates a duplicate of any object upon which it is cast. As revealed by the goblin Griphook, any copies created are worthless. The duplicate lasts several hours. Magical properties, at least of a Horcrux, are not copied.
  
  
• (Gemino Curse)
  Description: Whenever an object affected by this curse is touched, it duplicates itself into many useless copies to hide the original. To add confusion and eventually fill the surrounding area with copies, the copies also duplicate.
  
  
• Glisseo
  Description: Causes the steps on a stairway to flatten and form a ramp or slide.
  
  
• (Gripping Charm)
  Description: Used to help someone grip something with more effectiveness. This charm is placed upon Quaffles to help Chasers carry the Quaffle whilst simultaneously holding their brooms.
  
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• (Hair Loss Curse)
  Description: Causes one to lose one's hair.
  
  
• (Hair-Thickening Charm)
  Description: Thickens one's hair.
  
  
• Homenum Revelio
  Description: Reveals humans near the caster.
  
  
• (Homorphus Charm)
  Description: Causes an Animagus or transfigured object to assume its normal shape.
  
  
• (Horton-Keitch Braking Charm)
  Description: This spell was first used on the Comet 140 to prevent players from overshooting the goal posts and from flying off-sides.
  
  
• (Hot-Air Charm)
  Description: Causes wand to emit hot air.
  
  
• (Hover Charm)
  Description: An object is levitated off the ground and moved according to the caster.
  
  
• (Hurling Hex)
  Description: Causes brooms to vibrate violently in the air and try to buck their rider off.
  
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• Impedimenta (Impediment Jinx, Impediment Curse)
  Description: This powerful spell is capable of tripping, freezing, binding, knocking back and generally impeding the target's progress towards the caster. The extent to which the spell's specific action can be controlled by the caster is not made clear. If this spell does bind, it does eventually wear off as stated in Deathly Hallows.
  
  
• Imperio (Imperius Curse)
  Description: Causes the victim of the curse to obey the spoken/unspoken commands of the caster. The experience of being controlled by this curse is described as a complete, wonderful release from any sense of responsibility or worry over one's actions, at the price of one's free will. Resisting the effect of the curse is possible, however, and several individuals have been able to successfully overcome it, including Harry and both of the Crouches, who learn to resist the curse after being subjected to its effects for an extended period. Harry describes the feeling of being the caster as controlling a marionette through a wand (although Harry's particular experience is suspect due to his lack of commitment to casting Unforgivable Curses). One of the three Unforgivable Curses.
  
  
• (Imperturbable Charm)
  Description: Makes objects such as doors impenetrable (by everything, including sounds and objects).
  
  
• Impervius (Impervius Charm)
  Description: This spell makes something repel (literally, become impervious to) substances and outside forces, including water.
  
  
• Incarcerous
  Description: Ties someone or something up with ropes.
  
  
• Incendio
  Description: Produces fire. Flames burst out flying.
  
  
• (Intruder Charm)
  Description: Detects intruders and sounds an alarm.
  
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• (Jelly-Brain Jinx)
  Description: Presumably affects the target's mental processes.
  
  
• (Jelly-Fingers Curse)
  Description: Causes the target's fingers to become almost jelly-like to make it impossible for the victim to grasp objects. If the opponent touches a wall, he/she will be stuck to it forever.
  
  
• (Jelly-Legs Jinx)
  Description: A jinx that renders its victim's legs temporarily useless, leaving him/her to wobble around helplessly until the effect wears off or the counter-jinx is performed.
  
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• (Knee-Reversal Hex)
  Description: Causes the victim's knees to appear on the opposite side of his/her legs.
  
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• Langlock
  Description: Glues the victim's tongue to the roof of his/her mouth. Created by Severus Snape.
  
  
• Legilimens
  Description: Allows the caster to delve into the mind of the victim, allowing the caster to see the memories, thoughts, and emotions of the victim.
  
  
• Levicorpus
  Description: The victim is dangled upside-down by one of his/her ankles, sometimes accompanied by a flash of white light. Created by Severus Snape. Its counter curse is Liberacorpus.
  
  
• Liberacorpus
  Description: The counter spell to Levicorpus. Created by Severus Snape.
  
  
• Locomotor
  Description: The spell is always used with the name of a target, at which the wand is pointed (e.g. "Locomotor Trunk!"). The spell causes the named object to rise in the air and move around at the will of the caster.
  
  
• Locomotor Mortis (Leg-Locker Curse)
  Description: Locks the legs together, preventing the victim from moving the legs in any fashion. The target can hop when affected by this curse, but walking is impossible without the countercurse
  
  
• Lumos
  Description: Creates a narrow beam of light that shines from the wand's tip, like a torch (US: flashlight).
  
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• Meteolojinx Recanto
  Description: Causes weather effects caused by incantations to cease.
  
  
• Mobiliarbus
  Description: Lifts a tree a few inches off the ground and levitates it to where the caster points his or her wand.
  
  
• Mobilicorpus
  Description: Lifts a body a few inches off the ground and levitates it where the caster points his or her wand
  
  
• Morsmordre (Dark Mark)
  Description: Conjures the Dark Mark, Voldemort's mark. It is often used to mark deaths, or cause terror (as at the Quidditch World Cup in The Goblet of Fire)
  
  
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  Description: Keeps nearby people, or those to whom the wand is directed, from hearing nearby conversations.
  
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• Nox
  Description: Counter charm to the Lumos spell.
  
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• (Obliteration Charm)
  Description: Removes things not wished to be seen again.
  
  
• Obliviate (Memory Charm)
  Description: Used to hide a memory of a particular event.
  
  
• Obscuro
  Description: Causes a blindfold to appear over the victim's eyes, obstructing his/her view of his/her surroundings.
  
  
• Oppugno
  Description: Causes conjured objects to attack.
  
  
• Orchideous
  Description: Makes a bouquet of flowers appear out of the caster's wand.
  
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• Pack
  Description: Packs a trunk, or perhaps any luggage.
  
  
• (Permanent Sticking Charm)
  Description: Makes objects permanently stay in place.
  
  
• Peskipiksi Pesternomi
  Description: The one time it was uttered, it had absolutely no effect.
  
  
• Petrificus Totalus (Body-Bind Curse)
  Description: Used to temporarily bind the victim's body in a position much like that of a soldier at attention; this spell does not restrict breathing or seeing, and the victim will usually fall to the ground.
  
  
• Piertotum Locomotor
  Description: Spell used to animate statues and suits of armour to do the caster's bidding.
  
  
• (Placement Charm)
  Description: A charm which temporarily places an object upon a desired target.
  
  
• Point Me (Four-Point Spell)
  Description: Causes the caster's wand tip to point to the north cardinal point, acting like a compass.
  
  
• Portus
  Description: Turns an object into a portkey. The object glows an odd blue colour to show it has been transformed into a portkey, then goes solid again.
  
  
• Prior Incantato
  Description: Causes the echo (a shadow or image) of the last spell cast by a wand to emanate from it.
  
  
• (Protean Charm)
  Description: Causes copies of an object to be remotely affected by changes made to the original.
  
  
• Protego (Shield Charm)
  Description: The Shield Charm causes minor to strong jinxes, curses, and hexes to rebound upon the attacker, or at least prevents them from having their full effect. It can also cause a shield to erupt from the caster's wand.
  
  
• Protego Horribilis
  Description: Provides some form of protection against Dark Magic.
  
  
• Protego Totalum
  Description: Provides protection of some form for an area or dwelling.
  
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• Quietus
  Description: Makes a magically magnified voice return to normal.
  
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• Reducio
  Description: Makes an enlarged object smaller. Counter-charm to Engorgio.
  
  
• Reducto (Reductor Curse)
  Description: Enables the caster to explode solid objects.
  
  
• (Refilling Charm)
  Description: Refills whatever at which the caster points with the drink originally in the container.
  
  
• Relashio
  Description: A charm used to force someone or something to release that which it holds or grapples by means of shooting fiery sparks out or, underwater, shooting hot bursts of water.
  
  
• Rennervate
  Description: Brings someone out of unconsciousness.
  
  
• Reparo
  Description: Used to repair broken or damaged objects.
  
  
• Repello Muggletum (Muggle-Repelling Charm)
  Description: Keeps Muggles away from wizarding places by causing them to remember important meetings they missed and to cause the Muggles in question to forget what they were doing in the first place.
  
  
• Rictusempra (Tickling Charm)
  Description: The subject experiences the sensation of being tickled
  
  
• Riddikulus
  Description: A spell used when fighting a Boggart, "Riddikulus" forces the Boggart to take the appearance of an object upon which the caster is concentrating. When used correctly, this will be a humorous form.
  
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• Salvio Hexia
  Description: Provides some form of protection against hexes.
  
  
• Scourgify (Scouring Charm)
  Description: Used to clean something.
  
  
• Sectumsempra
  Description: Violently wounds the target; described as being as though the subject had been "slashed by a sword". Created by Severus Snape.
  
  
• Serpensortia
  Description: Conjures a serpent from the spell caster’s wand.
  
  
• Silencio (Silencing Charm)
  Description: Silences something immediately.
  
  
• (Slug-Vomiting Charm)
  Description: A jet of green light strikes the victim, who then vomits slugs for an undefined period of time (greater than five hours). The sizes of the vomited slugs decrease with time.
  
  
• Sonorus
  Description: Magnifies the spell caster’s voice, functioning as a magical megaphone
  
  
• Specialis Revelio (Scarpin's Revelaspell)
  Description: Causes an object to show its hidden secrets or magical properties.
  
  
• (Stealth Sensoring Spell)
  Description: Detects those under magical disguise.
  
  
• (Stinging Hex, Stinging Jinx)
  Description: Produces a stinging sensation in the victim, resulting in angry red welts and occasionally the severe inflammation of the affected area.
  
  
• Stupefy (Stunning Spell, Stupefying Charm, Stunner)
  Description: Puts the victim in an unconscious state. Manifests as a jet of red light.
  
  
• (Supersensory Charm)
  Description: Able to possess superior senses than before.
  
  
• (Switching Spell)
  Description: Causes two objects to be switched for one another.
  
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• (Taboo)
  Description: A jinx which may be placed upon a word or a name, so that whenever that word is spoken, a magical disturbance is created that alerts the caster of the Taboo to the location of the speaker. Any protective enchantments in effect around the speaker are broken when the Tabooed word is spoken aloud.
  
  
• Tarantallegra
  Description: Makes victim's legs dance uncontrollably, so the victim cannot control his or her movements (recalling the tarantella dance).
  
  
• Tergeo
  Description: Siphons material from a surface, (e.g., blood, ink, dust, etc.)
  
  
• (Tongue-Tying Curse)
  Description: A curse that prevents certain information from being revealed by the individual upon whom the spell is placed. The curse manifests itself by causing the tongue to temporarily curl backwards upon itself.
  
  
• (Trip Jinx)
  Description: Causes the victim of the jinx to trip and fall.[HP5]
  
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• (Unbreakable Vow)
  Description: Causes a vow taken by a witch or wizard to be inviolable; if he or she should break it, the consequence is death. It manifests itself as interlinking chains of fire binding the clasped hands of the people taking the Vow; the fire shoots out as a tongue of flame from the wand of the Binder (a witness to the Vow) every time the person who takes the vow makes a promise. The flames then form into the linking chains. According to Ron Weasely, the spell causes death to anyone who breaks the vow.
  
  
• (Undetectable Extension Charm)
  Description: Causes a container's capacity to be increased, without changing the object's external appearance.
  
  
• (Unbreakable Charm)
  Description: Causes an object to become unbreakable.
  
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• Waddiwasi
  Description: Appears to launch small objects through the air.
  
  Wingardium Leviosa (Levitation Charm)
  Description: Levitates objects.