Silly as it is, we’d personally have liked Snape to have worn this outfit throughout the movies. ‘Riddikulus’, a lovely word by all acounts, literally translates from the Latin as ‘silly’ or ‘laughable’. In the books it creates a light at the end of the wand to help navigate all those candle-lit hallways. This one comes from the Latin word ‘lumen’, meaning lamp or torch. It comes from the Latin verb ‘to rule’, or the imperative ‘to command’. One of the three Unforgivable Curses, the Imperius curse allows you to control the object of your magic’s every move. It comes from the Latin ‘confundo’, which means – you guessed it – ‘to confuse’ or ‘to perplex’. Hermione uses it to distract a goalkeeper during a Quidditch match to help Ron. This charm is designed to mess with your head temporarily. It translates from Latin to mean ‘I summon’ or ‘I send for’. Harry uses it to fetch his Firebolt broom from the castle so he can escape a dragon, obvs. We’ve all wished we could use this spell after losing our keys for the millionth time. Stupefyĭescribed as ‘a wizard’s bread a butter really’ by Harry, the Stupefy spell stuns your opponent.Ī rather straightforward translation is required as it is derived from the Latin ‘stupeo’ meaning ‘to stun’. So maybe ‘I turn you to stone’ all together. Petrificus Totalus combines ‘petros’ – meaning rock in Greek – with Latin words ‘facio’, meaning ‘to make’, and ‘totalis’, meaning whole. A combo of Greek and Latin left him flat on the floor.
It’s commonly used to disarm an opponent of their wand in a duel and joins the Latin ‘expello’ (to disarm) with ‘armus’ (weaponry). This is the spell that locked Harry in an Incantatem wand battle with Voldemort in The Goblet Of Fire. It comes from the English word ‘wing’, compounded together with the Latin ‘arduus’ which means proudly elevated, and finally ‘levo’, which is Latin for rise. All together it might translate as ‘the rise of fluttering wings’. This one, which the first year students tend to struggle with, is a hybrid of English and Latin. We still get emotional when we think about Snape and Lily’s Patronuses both being does because of his happiest moment was with her. It is a Latin phrase which translates to ‘I wait for a protector’. To bring it out, a wizard or witch must say: ‘Expecto Patronum’. It protect and guides its ‘owner’, who summons it by imagining their happiest memory. Probably the best of all the spells, the Patronus is a literal spirit animal.
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