Harry Potter Spell Words And Meaning

We ve seen the word so many times but how did it come together.

Harry potter spell words and meaning. A muggle is a non magical person. Bat bogey hex turns the target s boogers into bats. Brackium emendo heals broken bones.

Harry potter is the only known witch or wizard to survive it. Dens which means tooth and augeo which means to enlarge the spell causes the victim s teeth to grow quickly. Used to remove matter blood.

Expel harks back to 1300s middle english where two latin terms were combined to create it. For more episodes like this. In latin expello means i expel drive out and arma means defensive arms armor.

Rowling created an entire vocabulary to separate the wizarding world from the muggle world. The disarming charm expelliarmus is one of harry s favorite spells it causes whatever your opponent is holding to fly away and it can even knock out the person. The harry potter world is divided into the magical and the mundane and j k.

It s a noun the dursleys are muggles and can be used attributively as in the muggle world above. It was considered to be harry potter s signature spell. Expelliarmus is one of the most used spells across all seven harry potter books to the extent that harry was known by the death eaters for using it during deathly hallows.

Bombardo creates an explosion. One of three unforgivable curses. In this edition of the list show mental floss editor in chief erin mccarthy is conjuring up the meaning behind dozens of words and spells from harry potter s world.