Magic.......

[House Elf]

The spells used in the books are actually rituals used a long time ago. Only some of them are made up. That is so cool cos that tells you that magic can be real! Hey you never now if a owl delivers you a letter in heavy parchment........

[Ms. Elsewhere]

interesting. JK did good researching before writing her books to make sure that the spells and occurances in it were consistent to other magic in other books and so on. You can't just make this stuff up anymore, u have to check the background.

[Liz1989]

its true. i think that you have to know what your writing about and then some...

[*Riley*]

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Correct me if I'm wrong but-_-_-Lumos means light or something doesn't it ?

[Ms. Elsewhere]

I think it's "Lumonous..." means, to illuminate.... spelled wrong probably.....

[*Riley*]

Knew it was something like that !!!

[Q.Araignee]

Lumos come from the Latin 'lumen'- light. The counterspell, Nox, is the Latin for night. Something that is luminous is emitting light, not necessarily illuminating something else- illumination is the act of first been 'lit up'. So a church window becomes illuminated when the light emitted from the Sun- which is luminous- interacts with it. Does that make sense, or am I just sounding pedantic?

[*Riley*]

I wanna write a book bout spells and stuff but I don't think I can pull it off as well as JK...

[salemboy]

Ditto. I knew lumos was similar to something in some language. Just didn't know what language. Aguamentia, I got immediately that it was derived from some language.

[*Riley*]

I only got that one because I thought;

Auga-Aqua

Aqua-Water

[teyannanecole]

Thee spells are just latin. As a spanish/english speaker I could easily tell the meaning of the majority of the spell before it was explained.
1. reparo - repair
2. obliviate - obliviate/not know / forget
3. levi corpus - levi = raise, corpus = body
4. protego = I protect
5. reducto = I reduce
6. engorigio = to make bigger
7. veritersuerum - truth serum

There's a lot of others.



"expecto patronum" means I await protection.

[*Riley*]

I got 'Obliviate' because you can be 'Oblivius' to something..
Engorgio - En-large gorge-bulge
Protego - Protect
Felix Felicis - In latin, Felix means lucky.

[salemboy]

I already got Scourgify, but what about the bogey hex?

[*Riley*]

I don't there was an incantation for the bogey hex.. was there ?

[salemboy]

Well, Ginny was accredited with having a wicked bogey hex.