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Ascendio[edit]

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Ascendio is a charm to ascend into the air.

(Who added this? It should include a source. I recall this from the GoF movie.. but not from any book.) --Obsidian-fox 04:07, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Immobilus[edit]

Immobulus - 'This spell is used to freeze an object in place. This spell is from the movie version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.'

Did Hermione use the spell on the pixies in the movie? I think I do recall it being used in the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Professor Lupin uses it to freeze the Whomping Willow before entering the passageway to the Shrieking Shack). Also, should it be spelled 'Immobilus' if it is derived from 'Immobile'? neatnate 18:42, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Yes, Hermione does freeze some pixies sometimes --Omegium 15:50, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

It was used to blow up or freeze the bludger in mid-air during the Quidditch game so it would stop it from hitting harry, after landing in the sand, jumping for the Golden Snitch, which he caught. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.5.3.142 (talk) 23:06, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

locomotor[edit]

The article says that 'Locomotor' has no Latin roots, but that word is derived from Latin - its parts are 'locus' (place) and 'movere' (movi, motum: to move) - so the meaning is something like 'to move to another place'. Compare 'Locomotive' etc. --84.135.229.54 28 June 2005 22:02 (UTC)

• fixedPeregrine_{^AY 17:05, 26 July 2005 (UTC)}

also, isn't locomotor used by flitwick in a previous book before ootp?Peregrine_{^AY17:05, 26 July 2005 (UTC)}

Other spells[edit]

I expected this article to be a complete list of spells in Harry Potter - there seem to be a lot of spells missing (Lumos? - wand casts a light, Reparo? - repairs an object, Finite Incantem? - the spell used by Professor Snape in Chamber of Secrets at the duelling club to restore calm, the spell Draco used in Chamber of Secrets at the duelling club to produce a snake, etc). Brianjd

Well then, by all means feel free to add to the list. That is what Wikipedia is all about; constant improvement in content by continuous editing. Sinistro 19:47, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I'm with both. The list should be improved, but it can give the impression that it was supposed to be complete. I added a small and clumsy note.

That said, I thought avada kedavra was an old phrase that 'abracadabra' derived from, not the other way round? -- Kizor 16:41, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Protean Charm-warns people of meetings by making objects grow hot?That seems like a very narrow definition..I thought it was to bind all the fake galleons to one 'master' galleon, so Hermione could change them all at once. This list needs to be more professional.

Formatting[edit]

Maybe it would be a good idea to decide on some kind of 'house style' to stick with when adding or amending spell information? For instance, looking down the list now, there are times when you might find certain names, Snape for instance, unlinked, and other times you could find them as Severus Snape, which is, I assume, the preferred format? Of course, one could not gaurantee that everyone amending the article would stick to such 'standards', but if all the previous entries were of a similar style, it might encourage new editors to stick with it? Perhaps not a huge issue, but feel free to comment. Splaty 14:49, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Legilimancy[edit]

Legilimancy is NOT a spell, it is an obscure magical art.Phoenix Song 02:27, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________I disagree with Phoenix, Legilimancy is channeled with a wand. Let me teach you the difference a magical art;and a spell.

Spell : i.e. Reducto, used to shatter people or(things) into tiny pieces. Spoiler Alert: Molly Weasley used the Reductoon Bellatrix Lestrange in order to shatter her into pieces (Deathly Hallows Part 2)

A magical art is taught within teachers in Hogwarts.(Normally in harry potter)Another Spoiler Alert: The only lessons that happened due to Ministry of Magic interfering with Hogwarts, and Harry Potter taught Defence Against the Dark Arts to the students who signed up for it. They named it

Hogwarts.

Spoiler Alert: In Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix;Severus Snape used the S P E L L Legilimancy to read through Harry's Mind in order to prepare him forLord Voldemort's liking of torturing his victims into Madness as so said by Severus Snape before thelesson began.

I think thats enough to prove the difference.

I rest my case — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.5.3.142 (talk) 23:28, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Diffindo[edit]

I totally agree that Diffindo 'severs the target', but that's what other spells do, isn't it?The question is just what it does, I don't have the Goblet of Fire at hand to check. But i'd say it rips things apart? --AmiUhle 14:13, 21 July 2005 (UTC)Note: If anyone tries to follow anything Harry Potter from the video games..then don't. In the CoS video game, you learn Diffindo from Professor Sprout, which of course Diffindo would be considered a Herbology spell.in the game, it destroys thick vines in your path..of course, in The Half Blood Prince, Arthor Weasley used it to bust the boards loose on the Dursley's fireplace..I say it causes a small explosion of whatever you aim the spell at

There is an error here..[edit]

'Sectumsempra

[..] Also used in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by Harry on Malfoy, which he is punished for with detention by Severus Snape (who, in fact, created the spell).'

'by Harry on Malfoy, which he is punished..'

Which he? 'which is punished', maybe..

Principles and practice using c pdf torrent. Anyway, as I did not reach the chapter, I'm not sure which is which, but I think this should be corrected..

Vlad 13:49, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Original Research[edit]

I removed 'There is also speculation that the spell could have been first seen in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, when Lucius Malfoy gets angry at Harry Potter over the loss of his house elf that was supposed to serve his family. Malfoy could have spoken the first part 'Avada', after which Dobby knocked him back. However, the subtitles for the movie say that Lucius said 'Vera', so it is also possible that this incantation was never used until Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'

Malfoy isn't stupid enough to try to kill Harry in front of Dumbledore, in public, in broad daylight. Plus, regardless, that's original research, which Wikipedia prohibits the publication of. Superm401 Talk 21:57, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

Added: Lucius Malfoy indeed says 'Avada' before being hit by Dobby's power in the movie.

Finite Incantate/um[edit]

Appears twice, once as canon and once as non-canon!

Bat-Bogey Hex[edit]

I propose the 'booger' comparison be removed. Granted, bogey is a British-slang term, but the same can easily be said for booger. If you have a British-slang with an American-slang equivelant on the page, that only helps British people or Americans. There should just be a NON-slang comparison for it. - Gerbon689 08:38, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Lumos and Lupin[edit]

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In the ^{[PoA Ch.{{{ch}}}]}, it is written as:

It doesn't mention the color of it anywhere, nor does it sound like the kind of light that lumos creates. --MacAddct1984 13:38, August 7, 2005 (UTC)

Copyright Violation[edit]

Several of the spell descriptions seem to be taken word for word from The Harry Potter Lexicon despite their usage policy

Slug Vomiting Charm[edit]

There seems to be no indication that vomiting slugs was the desired effect that Ron wanted to produce, judging that it's his second year in school and that Ron isn't the most adept of wizards, it's very possible he had his mind set on another spell entirely.

--MacAddct1984 23:39, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

Fidelius Charm[edit]

What happens when the Secret-Keeper dies before revealing his secret? Is the secret revealed or forever concealed?

Avada Kedavra / Abracadabra / Hebrew[edit]

It looks to me like the Hebrew versions of both spells are exactly the same. I'm removing one until someone figures out what the other should be.

According to the caption in the CoS movie, Lucius Malfoy begins a spell 'Vera,' not Adavra.

Jason Isaac's voice says 'AVADA' very clearly. The caption is incorrect.

Snape's spell on Dumbledore[edit]

HBP clearly mentions a flash of green light going out of Snape's wand after he said 'Avada Kedavra'. The last paragraph is therefore mistaken.

Yes, but there is controversy about whether or not snape actually used Avada Kedavra on Dumbledore or whether he actually used Levicorpus.

Note to anyone intending on splitting off a section[edit]

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• Memory Charm: Barty Crouch
• Sectumsempra: Legilimency, Half-Blood Prince (character)
• Levicorpus: Legilimency, Half-Blood Prince (character)
• Cruciatus Curse (Crucio): Death Eater, Neville Longbottom, Dolores Umbridge, Azkaban, Minor Dark wizards in Harry Potter

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Pronunciation guides[edit]

Do we really need the pronunciation guides for some of the spells? Most, if not all, are pronounced exactly like they're spelled. If there are going to be pronunciation guides, can they at least be in the International Phonetic Alphabet so there's some level of continuity? For example, 'ah', 'uh', 'o', and 'er' can all be used to spell the same sound, when ə is both more accurate and less confusing than having four different spellings for the same sound. --Icarus 04:44, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Vera Verto[edit]

The spell's previous entry (a direct copy from The Harry Potter Lexicon) stated:

The presumption that the spell incantation actually given in the film (Vera Verto) is wrong (and instead must really be Fera Verto) is original research as well as uninformed. 'Vera', far from being 'completely unrelated', is very similar to verre, the French word for 'glass' in both its 'drinking vessel' and 'material' senses. (Verre, in turn, is akin to Italian vetro and Latin vitro, which also mean 'glass'.)

'Fera' (from Latin for 'wild animal/beast') being a 'perfect fit' is arguable on a couple of points. The pertinent film scene clearly stated that the spell was 'to turn animals into water goblets' --not just wild animals-- as demonstrated on Scabbers the rat. Also, spell incantations in HP have consistenly followed a pattern: The words of the incantation describe the spell's effect, while the spell's target is simply indicated with a wand gesture and only optionally verbalized. (For instance, 'Accio' aimed at the object being summoned works as well as 'Accio Firebolt' or 'Accio Horcrux'; the same goes for 'Reparo' and 'Oculus Reparo'.) Fera Verto, then, would seem insufficient or incomplete-- suggesting 'to turn a (wild) animal' without describing what it is to be transfigured into (a glass? a teapot? a button?). Vera Verto, on the other hand, fits the pattern of an incantation that encapsulates in a word (or two) what its spell does.

Mercury McKinnon 08:00, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Memory Charm[edit]

I doubt this requires its own section, since we do know its incantation..Note: The incantation that Professor Lockhart said in Cos was 'Obliviate', the memory charm to make Ron and Harry lose all their memories so he [Lockhart] could take the fame for finding the CoS

Page move[edit]

Was there any reason to move the page? Was there any discussion of that? I don't really like the new title, I think it's a bit long and klunky. I'm going to move it back, please don't move it again without discussing it here first. Ëvilphoenix^Burn! 04:59, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Capitalization[edit]

I started lowercasing all the instances of the word 'spell' in section titles, as Wikipedia consistently used downstyle in titles, but then I noticed that even in the page titles the word 'spell' seems to be capitalized. Is this a consistent style decision made somewhere? Why? —Brent Dax 19:12, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Page merge[edit]

Just wanted to say that I'm still on track, and will be merging in a couple of days. Real life got in the way for a bit, and it turned out that the end result needs some more work. --Kizor 21:35, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Ever since the first person wrote out 5318008 on a calculator, nerds have been hiding secret numbers inside of your PC, and using them to negotiate secret handshakes between applications and files. Today we take a quick look at some of the more entertaining examples.

What are Magic Numbers?

Most programming languages use a 32-bit integer type to represent certain types of data behind the scenes — internally the number is stored in RAM or used by the CPU as 32 ones and zeros, but in the source code it would be written out in either regular decimal format, or as hexadecimal format, which uses the numbers 0 through 9 and the letters A through F.

When the operating system or an application wants to determine the type of a file, it can look to the beginning of the file for a special marker that signifies the type of the file. For instance, a PDF file might start with the hex value 0x255044462D312E33, which equals “%PDF-1.3” in ASCII format, or a ZIP file starts with 0x504B, which equals “PK”, which descends from the original PKZip utility. By looking at this “signature,” a file type can be easily identified even without any other metadata.

The Linux utility “file” can be used from the terminal to determine the type of a file — in fact, it reads the magic numbers from a file called “magic.”

When an application wants to call a function, it can pass values to that function using standard types like integer, which can be expressed in the source code in hexadecimal format. This is especially true for constants, which are identifiers defined with human-readable names like AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL, but they map to actual integer (or other type) values. So instead of a programmer typing out a value like 60 every time they call the function in the source code, they could use the AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL constant for better readability. (Constants are usually easily recognized because they are written in all capital letters).

All of these examples can fall under the term Magic Numbers, because they might require a specific hexadecimal number in order for a function or file type to work properly… if the value isn’t correct it won’t work. And when a programmer wants to have a little fun, they might define these values using hexadecimal numbers that spell out something in English, otherwise known as hexspeak.

Fun With Magic Numbers: Some Notable Examples

If you take a quick look into the Linux source code, you’ll see that the _reboot() system call on Linux requires a “magic” variable to be passed that equals the hexadecimal number 0xfee1dead. If something tried to call that function without passing in that magic value first, it would just return an error.

The GUID (globally unique identifier) for a BIOS boot partition in the GPT partitioning scheme is 21686148-6449-6E6F-744E-656564454649, which forms the ASCII string “Hah!IdontNeedEFI”, an allusion to the fact that GPT would normally be used in computers that replaced BIOS with UEFI, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be.

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Microsoft famously hid 0x0B00B135 in their Hyper-V virtual-machine supporting source code submitted to Linux, then they changed the value to 0xB16B00B5, and finally they switched it to decimal before it was removed from the source code altogether.

More fun examples include:

• 0xbaaaaaad – used by iOS crash logging to indicate that a log is a stackshot of the entire system.
• 0xbad22222 – used by iOS crash logging to indicate that a VoIP app has been killed by iOS because it misbehaved.
• 0x8badf00d – (Ate Bad Food) used by iOS crash logs to indicate that an application took too long to do something and was killed by the watchdog timeout.
• 0xdeadfa11 – (Dead Fall) used by iOS crash logging when an app is force quit by a user.
• 0xDEADD00D – used by Android to indicate a VM abort.
• 0xDEAD10CC (Dead Lock) used by iOS crash logging when an application locks a resource in the background.
• 0xBAADF00D (Bad Food) used by the LocalAlloc function in Windows for debugging.
• 0xCAFED00D (Cafe dude) used by Java’s pack200 compression.
• 0xCAFEBABE (Cafe babe) used by Java as the identifier for compiled class files
• 0x0D15EA5E (Disease) used by Nintendo on the Gamecube and Wii to indicate a normal boot happened.
• 0x1BADB002 (1 bad boot) used by the multiboot specification as a magic number
• 0xDEADDEAD – used by Windows to indicate a manually initiated debug crash, otherwise known as the Blue Screen of Death.

These aren’t the only ones out there, of course, but just a short list of examples that seemed fun. Know of any more? Tell us in the comments.

Seeing Examples for Yourself

You can see more examples by opening up a hex editor and then opening up any number of file types. There are plenty of freeware hex editors available for Windows, OS X, or Linux — just make sure you are careful when installing freeware to not get infected with crapware or spyware.

As an added example, recovery images for Android phones like ClockworkMod start with “ANDROID!” if read in ASCII format.

Note: don’t go changing anything while you’re looking around. Hex editors can break things!

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