Descendo (deh-SEN-doe)
“descendo” L. descend, come down
Causes something to descend or lower itself.
Ron used this spell to lower the ceiling hatch and ladder leading to the Burrow’s attic (DH6).
Crabbe cast this spell on a fifty-foot high pile of junk in the Room of Requirement, to make it fall over (DH31).
Densaugeo (den-sah-OO-gi-oh)
“dens” L. tooth + “augeo” L. grow
Causes the victim’s teeth to enlarge grotesquely.
Hermione was hit by this spell from the wand of Draco Malfoy. Draco and Harry had begun fighting in the corridor, but the curses missed and hit Hermione and Goyle (GF18)
defensive charge
no incantation needed; automatic response
A charge like that of electricity runs through the body of a wizard with this automatic defensive spell.
When Vernon Dursley tried to hold Harry around the neck, he felt a sudden charge like electricity running through Harry and he had to drop him. This appears to have been an automatic defensive response on Harry’s part, since there is no indication that he intentionally cast a spell (OP1).
Dumbledore used a similar spell to make Umbridge let go of Marietta, whom she was shaking violently. This may be a different form of the spell, however, since Dumbledore used his wand to perform it (OP27).
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curses
various
The following spells are known as curses.
Crucio (KROO-see-oh)
“Cruciatus Curse”
“crucio” L. torment (v.)
One of the “Unforgivable Curses,” this spell causes the victim to suffer almost intolerable pain. Some victims of prolonged use of this curse have been driven insane. A victim of this curse is said to have been Cruciated.
Demonstrated by the fake Moody to the fourth-year Defence Against the Dark Arts class (GF14).
Used by Voldemort’s followers during his years of power, both on wizards and Muggles (GF14).
Crouch authorized its use by Aurors against suspects during the first war against Voldemort (GF27).
The Longbottoms (see) were victims of the Cruciatus Curse and were driven insane by it (GF30, OP9, OP23)
When Neville heard the golden egg’s song, he was afraid that the second task would involve Harry facing this spell (GF21).
Krum was forced to use this on Cedric during the third task (GF31)
Voldemort used it on Wormtail (GF29), Avery (GF33 and probably OP26), and Harry (GF34)
During the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, Bellatrix realized that Neville was the child of the Longbottoms, whom she had tortured. She took fiendish pleasure in using the Cruciatus Curse on the Longbottoms’ son.
Later, Harry tried to use the Cruciatus Curse on Bellatrix Lestrange, but it didn’t do much. She taunted him that he had to mean it or it wouldn’t work (OP36).
W
conjured items
no incantation used
A spell that creates objects out of thin air.
McGonagall conjured up a large fan and instructed Ernie Macmillan to waft the Petrified Nearly Headless Nick to the hospital wing using it (CS11).
Dumbledore conjured up hundreds of squashy purple sleeping bags when the students needed to spend the night in the Great Hall (PA9).
There is legislation about what you can conjure and what you can’t (SN).
There are laws of magic (as opposed to human legislation) governing what you can conjure and what you can’t, such as Gamp’s Law of Elemental Transfiguration, to which food is one of the five exceptions (you can’t create food out of nothing) (DH29).
Most things conjured out of thin air will disappear after a couple of hours (SN). Some exceptions to this are the sleeping bags, which survived a lot longer than just a couple of hours, and the leg of Neville’s desk, which had been accidentally vanished (CS16) (although this may have been an instance of Reparo instead).
“drawing up a chair” (conjuring a chair out of thin air)
Dumbledore drew up comfy chintz armchairs (OP8)
McGonagall draws up straight-backed, wooden chairs (OP22).
Arthur Weasley drew up more chairs so his visitors could sit down in his ward at St Mungo’s (OP8).
Dumbledore literally drew up a chair for Trelawney to sit in at the Christmas feast in 1993 [Y13] (PA11). He also drew up a chintz armchair for himself to sit in when representing Harry at his hearing before the Wizengamot and when Mrs. Figg arrived to testify, Dumbledore drew up another for her (OP8).
Dumbledore conjured a tea tray in Hagrid’s cabin (GF24).
Dumbledore arranged the Great Hall for the musical entertainment at the Yule Ball with “move objects” and this spell:
“Dumbledore stood up and asked the students to do the same. Then, with a wave of his wand, all the tables zoomed back along the walls leaving the floor clear, and then he conjured a raised platform into existence along the right wall.” (GF23)
Bill and Charlie Weasley conjured up tablecoths for dinner in the garden at the Burrow (GF5).
Fudge conjured two large glasses of amber liquid (one for himself, one for the Prime Minister) on the night he informed the latter of Sirius Black’s escape from Azkaban (HBP1).
conjured items
no incantation used
A spell that creates objects out of thin air.
McGonagall conjured up a large fan and instructed Ernie Macmillan to waft the Petrified Nearly Headless Nick to the hospital wing using it (CS11).
Confundo (con-FUN-doh)
Confundus Charm
“confundo” L. to mix up, jumble together, confuse, bewilder, perplex
Causes confusion. A person who is affected by this Charm is said to be Confunded.
Snape suggested that Harry, Ron, and Hermione were Confunded by Sirius Black into believing him innocent (PA21).
The fake Moody used this charm to fool the Goblet of Fire into accepting Harry’s name under a fourth school (GF17).
Hermione used a Confundus Charm on McLaggen during Keeper tryouts in her sixth year (HBP11).
Snape speculated that a Confundus Charm had been placed on Dawlish, who was known to be susceptible (DH1).
Cast by Harry on each of the two wizards outside the main entrance of Gringotts (DH26).
