List of Harry Potter Spells

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