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