Because of a connection between Harry and Voldemort's wands Priori Incantatem , images of Voldemort's recent victims appeared and helped Harry escape during their duel in According to Harry, they seemed too solid to be ghosts.
It should be noted that, whilst the ability to perform magic usually revealed itself by age seven , [66] there were exceptions when individuals remained mundane until quite late in life when — in extremely desperate circumstances — they suddenly revealed their magical capacity. However, such "late-bloomers" were rare, possibly more so than Squibs.
When "wild", typically with young and untrained children, magic would manifest itself subconsciously in moments of strong apprehension, fear or anger. A powerful or intelligent wizard or witch could direct this force in less random ways, like Lily Evans and Tom Riddle.
As magic was what governed the wizarding world , there were many people who made it their business to study the magical arts, as well as magic being taught to young witches and wizards.
Types of wizards with special magical abilities included Animagi wizards who could turn into animals , Arithmancer, a Legilimens one who could penetrate another's mind , [68] an Occlumens one who could protect their mind from external penetration , [68] Metamorphmagi wizards who could change their physical appearance , [69] a Parselmouth one who could converse with snakes , [70] and a Seer one who could predict the future.
Many witches and wizards studied the history of magic throughout time; they were known as magical historians, and History of Magic was also a class taught at Hogwarts. One of the most celebrated magical historians of all time was Bathilda Bagshot , author of A History of Magic , which chronicalled the entire history of the magical world up till the end of the First Wizarding War.
It remained a standard Hogwarts textbook for this study. Arithmancy was a branch of magic that was concerned with the magical properties of numbers; someone who practised Arithmancy was called an Arithmancer. For example, in the s, Bridget Wenlock , a famous Arithmancer, discovered the magical properties of the number seven. L in Arithmancy was required to apply for a Curse-Breaker 's job at Gringotts. Arithmancy at Hogwarts was taught by Professor Vector. In her class, students were expected to write essays and to be able to understand complicated number charts, which were part of their homework.
Hermione Granger appeared to be the only Gryffindor in her year who attempted an O. L in this subject which is her favourite.
Herbology was the study of magical plants and fungi, including their care and their magical properties and uses. Some magical plants formed important ingredients in potions, while others had magical effects in their own right.
At Hogwarts, all students were required to attempt an O. At some time in the s or s , [72] the post for Herbology was taken by Neville Longbottom , since before the start of the — school year , Ginny Potter told her son James Sirius Potter to give her love to Neville. Love Potion , used to create artificial affection. Potions were magical liquids created by mixing various ingredients in a cauldron according to very specific rules.
These mixtures must usually be drunk to give their magical effect. The ingredients in potions ranged from the mundane to the bizarre and fantastic, and the procedures for creating some potions could be complicated and time-consuming. This class was mandatory from years 1—5, but was only allowed at N.
Harry Potter casting the advanced Patronus Charm. Charms were a type of magic spell concerned with enchanting an object to behave in a way that wasn't normal for that object. For example, the Summoning Charm brought an object to the caster. A charm might cause something to flash different colours. It might cause an object to levitate or even fly through the air.
In all of these cases, the object or the person didn't really change, they just did something unexpected. Some Charms could be extremely powerful.
The Fidelius Charm , for example, could completely hide a person or a place in such a way that no one could find them unless they were given the location by a Secret-Keeper. Charms were in some ways the opposite of curses : charms seemed to have an inherent positive tone e. Tickling Charm , while most curses had an inherent negative one. This is not to say that charms were weaker magic; a well-chosen charm, counter-spell or healing spell was a powerful magical tool against curses, jinxes and hexes.
Professor Flitwick , the Hogwarts Charms teacher , was rumoured to have once been a duelling champion, after all. Transfiguration was magic which changed one object into another.
It was possible to change inanimate objects into animate ones and vice versa. Some Transfiguration spells altered a part of something, such as changing a person's ears from normal into rabbit ears. Transfiguration spells were cast in ancient times as well. Circe, a witch who lived on the Greek island of Aeaea, was famous for turning lost sailors into pigs. The opposite of Transfiguration was Untransfiguration, which would be returning something to its proper form. Voldemort casting the Killing Curse , a tool of the Dark Arts.
The Dark Arts differed from other forms of magic in the intent of the wizard using it. Most magic was relatively neutral — it could be used for bad or good. Some magic, however, was evil in its intention through and through. Spells of this kind were often called curses. Curses were spells that were often intended to cause harm to another person. This intention to do harm placed that spell into the realm of the Dark Arts.
Although offensive and potentially dangerous curses existed in number, three were considered usable only for great evil, which earned them the special classification of " Unforgivable Curses ".
This was a difficult distinction to make in many cases. However, understanding the difference between acceptable and Dark magic was of key importance for witches and wizards in training, which was why Defence Against the Dark Arts was such an important class for students at Hogwarts. Legilimency, a branch of magic not normally taught at Hogwarts at least, not at Ordinary Wizarding Level , was the ability to extract emotions, thoughts, and memories from another person's mind.
Although the word literally translated as "mind-reading", this was considered a naive interpretation of the art by its practitioners. Someone who practised Legilimency was known as a Legilimens.
Legilimency was easier when the spell-caster was physically near the target, and when the target was off-guard, relaxed, or otherwise vulnerable. Eye contact was often essential, so it was useful for a Legilimens to verbally manipulate his or her target into meeting the Legilimens's eyes, with the fringe benefit that the target's emotional state might bring relevant associated memories to the surface.
All of this seemed to tally quite nicely with what is known of the nature of human memory in Muggle science. The incantation required for Legilimency was Legilimens. Occlumens Severus Snape preparing to invade Harry's mind, while trying to teach Harry to resist it. Occlumency was the art of magically defending the mind against external penetration, sealing it against magical intrusion and influence — the defensive counter to Legilimency.
A practitioner of Occlumency was referred to as an Occlumens. Occlumency was a necessary prerequisite to defeat a Legilimens's lie-detector abilities without suspicious behaviour such as avoiding face-to-face contact and eye contact.
Elementary Occlumency involved clearing the mind of thought and emotion, so that the Legilimens could find no emotional ties to memories that the target wished to conceal. Simple resistance to attack required similar skills to those needed to resist the Imperius Curse.
In its more advanced form, Occlumency allowed the user to suppress only feelings and memories that contradicted what the user wished a Legilimens to believe, thus allowing the Occlumens to lie without self-betrayal. Sybill Trelawney with a crystal ball. Divination was magic which attempted to foresee future events. Many in the wizarding world considered this branch of magic to be imprecise at best. There were several types of Divination. The most imprecise was what was commonly known as "fortunetelling", and this was what Sybill Trelawney taught at Hogwarts.
When Firenze the centaur started teaching Divination classes in the spring of , he taught these techniques, although they were mostly lost on the human students in his classes. The third type of Divination was called Seeing. This was true Divination, although what the Seer revealed was usually in the form of a Prophecy which then itself required some interpretation.
A Seer, one who possessed the Inner Eye , didn't seem to have control over their Seeing. Trelawney, for example, only made actual prophecies three times, although she made plenty of claims about everything from troubles ahead for various students to Neville breaking a teacup.
True Seeing was very rare, but it had happened plenty of times over the centuries. There was a huge cathedral-sized room of the Department of Mysteries where records of thousands of prophecies were stored in glass spheres. Each sphere was labelled with the initials of the Seer who spoke the Prophecy and the person it was spoken to and with the subject of the Prophecy. The following devices and items were endowed with various types of magic, that gave them certain properties and abilities. In , J.
The Harry Potter book series was a quick hit and made the jump to the big screen between and , with the final novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , split into two movies. For years, fans have wondered about this detail in the Harry Potter universe , where Hogwarts students were seen writing with quills, consulting books for their homework, sending owls with their messages, and more, and they have come up with different possible explanations for it.
However, with Rowling adding more and more to the Wizarding World all the time, she has already explained the topic of technology and its absence.
Another reason for the lack of technology in the Wizarding World is due to cultural reasons: according to Rowling, the magical community takes pride in not needing most Muggle devices. Some wizards and witches had the ability to talk to animals. For instance, a Parselmouth could speak to snakes.
This ability was extremely rare. Salazar Slytherin was an infamous Parselmouth, [23] and his descendants , [21] such as Lord Voldemort, inherited this trait. Harry Potter also acquired this ability when part of Voldemort's soul bonded with him the night he tried to kill Harry. Rubeus Hagrid has demonstrated an uncanny ability to communicate and bond with all kinds of animals, [10] [23] though this may have not been a true magical trait, but merely a gift, a mere knack at interpreting animal behaviour, that some Muggles showed.
Animagi had also demonstrated being able to subtly influence animals while assuming their animal forms. Nagini , prior to succumbing to her blood malediction. Some witches were the carriers of a blood curse , one that would eventually lead them turning into a beast permanently.
The beast form of a Maledictus individuals depended on the individual curse cast. Veela had been known to marry wizards, and wizarding children of these unions were Half-Veela , and they would inherit magical ability from their wizarding parent, as well as the beauty, charm, and seductive dance from their Veela parent. Veela traits seemed to persist for at least a few generations examples being Apolline Delacour , and her daughters Fleur , and Gabrielle. It is unknown whether half-blooded Veela could throw fire or transform into harpy -like creatures as their full-blooded relatives could.
There existed some individuals that continued to exhibit a lack of magical power past age 11 and yet spontaneously — in desperate circumstances — managed to perform magic later on in life. However, this was rare, possibly more so than squibs. Minerva McGonagall , a registered Animagus with the form of a cat. While some wizards had the ability to turn into animals, it was not an inherent power, but rather a trained technique.
This type of wizard was called an Animagus plural Animagi. Babbitty Rabitty was said to be an Animagus with the ability to transform into a rabbit.
Minerva McGonagall was an Animagus who could turn into a cat. Animagi had to register themselves at the British Ministry of Magic , because Human Transfiguration could go horribly wrong. However, there were some unregistered Animagi.
Examples are James Potter , who turned into a large red Stag; Sirius Black , who turned into a large black dog ; Peter Pettigrew , who turned into a small grey rat; [11] and Rita Skeeter , who could turn into a beetle to gather information for her articles.
Peter also turned into a rat to convince people that Sirius killed him, while masquerading as "Scabbers", Percy Weasley 's and Ronald Weasley 's former pet. Some wizards were permanently infected with lycanthropy also known as werewolfry [29] when bitten by a werewolf, which forced the infected wizard to become a fearsome and deadly near- wolf upon the complete rising of the full moon.
Werewolves appeared in the form of a wolf , but there were distinctions between them and regular wolves. Legilimens were wizards who could perform Legilimency. These wizards could tune into other people's minds, but had difficulty reading the minds of those people who could perform Occlumency.
The act of Legilimens was referred to as " mind-reading " in the Muggle world. Some wizards had the ability to protect their minds from others who could perform Legilimency. This ability was called Occlumency. An Obscurial was a witch or wizard who, due to being raised in an environment where their magic was viewed negatively, developed an Obscurus, a dark parasitic force resulting from their own magic being suppressed and tainted by negative emotion. Obscurials hardly ever lived beyond the age of ten, the only verified case being that of Credence Barebone.
Due to the extensive time spent suppressed, their magic, when unleashed as an Obscurus, could perform feats far more powerful than that of the average witch or wizard indeed, the power of Credence 's Obscurus impressed even Gellert Grindelwald , though usually only for short spans of time, as the user's death often followed soon after.
At this point, the magic was in the control of the Obscurus itself, and couldn't be directed by the Obscurial's will. As decreed by the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy , wizards maintained a society entirely separate from Muggle society, with their own culture and traditions.
At the Quidditch World Cup , over , wizards were in attendance. About 30 million wizards attended Barry Winkle 's th birthday party in It is not clear how many witches and wizards were in the entire world, but some hints are given.
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