S
Scouring
Charm - Serpensortia - Severing
Charm - Shield Charm - Silencing
Charm
Slug Curse
- Sonorus - Stunner - Stupefy
- Summoning Charm - Switching
Spells
Scouring
Charm
no incantation given
Cleans things,
fingernails, for example.
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Hermione taught Neville a Scouring Charm
to clean the frog guts out from under his fingernails (GF14).
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A Scouring Charm is required to eradicate
an infestation of Bundimuns (FB)
Serpensortia
(ser-pen-SOR-sha)
"serpens" L. serpent + "sortir"
Old Fr. to go out
Causes a large
serpent to burst from the end of the caster's wand.
-
Draco casts this spell on Harry at the
Dueling Club on Snape's suggestion; the serpent moves to attack Justin
Fitch-Fletchley (CS10)
Severing
Charm
no incantation given
Spell to cut something.
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Ron uses this spell to remove the lace
from the neck and sleeves of his used dress
robes (GF23)
Shield
Charm
no incantation given
This spell creates
a magical barrier which will deflect hexes thrown at the caster.
Silencing
Charm
no incantation given
A charm which
causes something to be silent.
-
The song of the Fwooper
will drive the listener insane and must therefore be sold with a Silencing
Charm on it. This charm must be recast on the Fwooper every month (FB).
Slug
Curse
no incantation given (no,
it's not "eat slugs")
Causes the victim
to belch up slugs.
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Ron tried to hit Malfoy with this curse
after Malfoy had called Hermione a Mudblood.
Unfortunately, Ron's wand was damaged and the spell backfired (CS7)
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Interestingly, Ron had only a short
time before, at breakfast, snapped "Eat slugs, Malfoy!" This is not the
incantation, however, although the film suggests that it is.
Sonorus
(so-NO-rus )
reverse: Quietus
"sonorus" L. loud
Makes the caster's
voice carry over long distances.
-
Ludo Bagman uses these spells to make
his voice heard throughout the World
Quidditch Cup stadium and over the stands of people watching the Triwizard
Tournament (GF8, 31)
Stunner
"Stunning Spell"
See STUPEFY
c.f. ENNERVATE
Stupefy
( STOO-puh-fye)
"Stunner" "Stupefying Charm"
reverse: "Ennervate"
"stupefacio" L. to make senseless,
from "stupeo" L. stunned
Renders the target
of the spell unconscious.
-
Used by Ministry Wizards to try to stop
whomever cast the Dark
Mark (GF9)
-
Used by dragon keepers (a lot of them
at once) to manage dragons (GF
-
Flavius Belby tried to use a Stupefying
Charm against a Lethifold, but only succeeded in blasting a hole through
his bedroom door (FB)
Summoning
Charm
See ACCIO
Switching
Spells
various, depending on the
transfiguration intended
A classification
of Transfiguration spells.
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Neville wasn't particularly adept at
these (GF15)
-
Hermione, discussing ways to combat
dragons:
"Well, there are Switching Spells...but
what’s the point of Switching it? Unless you swapped its fangs for wine-gums
or something that would make it less dangerous..." (GF
See CROSS-SPECIES
SWITCHES
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