List of Harry Potter Spells
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Accio: Brings an object to you
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Aguament: i Creates a gush of water from the tip of the spell caster’s wand
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Alohomora: Opens locks
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Aparecium: Makes invisible ink become visible
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Avada Kedavra: The Unforgivable Curse; Kills your opponent; taken from “Abra Cadabra”
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Avifors: Turns things into birds
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Avis: Makes birds fly out of the end of your wand
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Bombarda: Causes a small, locally contained explosion. To make a bigger explosion, one could use “bombarda maxima”
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Colloportus: Closes a door and binds it so that it can’t be opened.
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Confringo: AKA the Blasting Curse; Causes the item targeted to explode
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Confundus: Confounds your target, or makes them temporarily confused
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Conjunctivitis: Damages the eyesight of your opponent, making them seem to have pink eye
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Crucio: The Second Unforgivable Curse, the Cruciatus Curse; Tortures your opponent mercilessly
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Deletrius: Erases the last spell cast by a wand so that it can’t be discovered
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Densaugeo: Makes teeth grow out of control
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Diffindo: Makes seams split open, severs an object into two pieces
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Dissendium: Opens a specific passageway into a cellar, may be useful in other instances; may be only a password
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Duro: Turns an item to stone.
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Enervate: Mistaken spell. Changed to Rennervate. Used to wake up a stunned person
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Engorgio: Makes an item larger, as in swollen
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Episkey: Heals relatively minor wounds.
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Evanesco: Causes an item to immediately dissolve away, as if it had never existed
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Expecto Patronum: Creates Patronus
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Expelliarmus: Disarms the target of the spell, such as knocking their wand out of their hand
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Fera Verto: Transforms animals into water goblets!
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Ferula: Binds a broken limb with a splint and bandages, tightly wrapped
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Fidelius: Allows a secret to be hidden within the secret keeper’s soul; very powerful spell
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Finite Incantatem: Stops any spell
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Flagrate: Allows the user to write or draw in the air with fire
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Flipendo: Also knows as the Knockback Jinx, pushes or flips something backwards
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Furnunculus: Causes a person to break out in boils
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Geminio: Creates a duplicate of an item (a twin, as in the zodiacal sign Gemini).
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Homorphus: Man-Shape; makes a werewolf or person disguised as an animal resume their human shape
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Immobulus: Immobilizes the target
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Impedimenta: Puts up an impediment that slows down something or someone that is coming toward you
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Imperio: The third unforgivable curse. Allows the user to assume complete control of another person
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Impervius: Repels water from a surface
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Incarcerous: Conjures up ropes, which then bind an opponent
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Incendio: Lights a fire
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Legilimens: Allows the user to gain access to another’s mind and memories
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Levicorpus: Turns your opponent upside down and dangles them in thin air
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Liberacorpus: “Liberates”, or frees a body that has been caught up by the levicorpus spell
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Locomotor Mortis: The Leg-Locker Curse; locks an opponent’s legs together
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Lumos: Creates light, usually by making the tip of the wand glow. More light can be created using “lumos maxima”
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Mobiliarbus: Used to move a tree from one place to another
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Mobilicorpus: Used to move a body from one place to another
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Morsmordre: or Morsmorde Used to summon the Dark Mark
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Muffliato: Causes a buzzing noise to surround a limited area so that those in the area can carry on a private conversation
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Nox: Extinguishes light, used to douse the light created by “Lumos”
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Obliviate: Makes a person “oblivious”, erasing their memories of an event
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Orchideous: Conjures a bunch of flowers from the user’s wand
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Petrificus Totalus: Total petrification; petrifies an opponent totally
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Point Me: The Four Point Spell; makes the user’s wand act like a compass
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Portus: Turns any item into a Portkey, which can then be used to transport a person or persons to another location.
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Prior Incantato: Reveals to you the last spell that a wand was used to cast
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Protego: Protects the user, and sends a spell back on an opponent
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Quietus: Makes things quiet, used to muffle “Sonorus”
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Reducio: Shrinks an item
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Reducto: Blasts solid objects into pieces
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Relashio: Releases something from being constrained or held
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Rennervate: Was originally “ennervate”, but corrected by author; means to energize or wake up
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Reparo: Repairs broken items
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Repello: Repels something
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Repello Muggletum: Makes an area invisible to Muggles
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Revelio: Causes something that is hidden to be revealed
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Rictusempra: Causes a person to curl up in laughter, as if being tickled
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Riddikulus: Makes a boggart assume a “ridiculous” form, thereby making it funny instead of terrifying
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Salvio Hexia: Unclear; seems to strengthen other protective spells, or to deflect any hexes cast toward a specific location
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Scourgify: Used to clean dirt or other material off of a surface
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Sectumsempra: Causes lacerations to appear all over an opponent’s body, as if they had been cut by an invisible sword
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Serpensortia: Conjures a snake
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Silencio: Makes the target of the spell unable to make any sound.
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Sonorus: Amplifies the user’s voice
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Stupefy Stupefies an opponent, or knocks them insensible temporarily
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Tarantallegra: Forces an opponent’s legs to dance uncontrollably
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Tergeo: Scours something clean
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Waddiwasi: Removes a stuck object, as in a wad of gum that is stuck in a keyhole
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Wingardium Leviosa: Allows the user to make an object levitate
Posted on Friday, August 19 2011.