Harry Potter Spells List | A to Z

This list contains all the known Harry Potter spells A to Z, with known and clear incantations, as seen or heard in the wizarding world.

A

Aberto
Type: Charm
Effect: Used to open doors

Accio
Type: Charm
Effect: Summon an object toward the caster.

Aguamenti
Type: Charm
Effect: Conjures drinkable water from a wand’s extremity.

Alarte Ascendare
Type: Charm
Effect: Sends the target in the air.

Alohomora
Type: Charm
Effect: Unlock doors and other locked objects.

Amato Animo Animato Animagus
Type: Transfiguration
Effect: Used along with the Animagus Potion to transform to become an Animagus.

Anapneo
Type: Healing spell
Effect: that clears the target’s throat if they are choking.

Anteoculatia
Type: Dark charm
Effect: Grows antlers on the target.

Aparecium
Type: Charm
Effect: A that reveals hidden messages and markings. Can be used as an anti-concealing charm.

Appare Vestigium
Type: Charm
Effect: Reveals traces of magic and footprints in an area.

Aqua Eructo
Type: Charm
Effect: Conjure a jet of water from one’s wand tip.

Arania Exumai
Type: Charm
Effect: Repels spiders

Arresto Momentum
Type: Charm
Effect: Used to considerably decreases the target’s velocity.

Ascendio
Type: Charm
Effect: Sends the caster high in the air, or toward the surface if used underwater.

Avada Kedavra
Type: Curse
Effect: Kills the victim instantly. One of the three Unforgivable Curses.

Avifors
Type: Transfiguration
Effect: Transfigure the target into a bird.

Avensegium
Type: Charm
Effect: Transforms an object into a tracking device.

Avis
Type: Charm
Effect: Conjures birds from the tip of the wand.

B

Baubillious
Type: Charm
Effect: Produce a bolt of white light from the caster’s wand. Effects unknown, though presumably damaging.

Bombarda
Type: Charm
Effect: Produces a small explosion.

Bombarda Maxima
Type: Charm
Effect: Provoke a large explosion capable of destroying walls. This is a more powerful version of the Bombarda charm.

C

Calvorio
Type: Curse
Effect: Makes the target’s hair disapparate.

Cantis
Type: Charm
Effect: Causes its target to start signing uncontrollably.

Capacious extremis
Type: Charm
Effect: Make the internal space of an object bigger without changing the outside dimensions. Commonly used in tents, vehicles, and tents. The object’s weight will not be changed by its content.

Carpe Retractum
Type: Charm
Effect: Fires a rope of light to pull the target toward the caster or, if the target can’t be moved, will pull the caster toward the target.

Cave inimicum
Type: Charm
Effect: Hides the caster behind an invisible boundary.

Circumrota
Type: Charm
Effect: Make objects rotate.

Cistem Aperio
Type: Charm
Effect: Opens chests and locks.

Colloportus
Type: Charm
Effect: Used to lock doors and other objects with locks.

Colloshoo
Type: Hex
Effect: Sticks the target’s shoes to the ground.

Colovaria
Type: Charm
Effect: Change the colors of a target.

Confringo
Type: Curse
Effect: Creates an important explosion.

Confundo
Type: Charm
Effect: Confuse the target.

Crinus Muto
Type: Transfiguration
Effect: Change the color and the style of the target’s hair.

Crucio
Type: Curse
Effect: Used to torture the victim by creating intense and dangerous pain in the body. Known as the Cruciatus Curse, it’s one of the three Unforgivable Curses.

D

Defodio
Type: Charm
Effect: Carves writings or symbols through the target.

Deletrius
Type: Charm
Effect: Used to vanish the image of the last spell cast created by a Reverse Spell.

Densaugeo
Type: Hex
Effect: Causes the victim’s teeth to increase their length.

Deprimo
Type: Charm
Effect: Used to create holes in the ground.

Depulso
Type: Charm
Effect: Repels the target far from the caster.

Descendo
Type: Charm
Effect: Move objects toward the ground.

Diffindo
Type: Charm
Effect: Creates precise cuts in the target.

Diminuendo
Type: Charm
Effect: Shrinks its target.

Dissendium
Type: Charm
Effect: Opens passages.

Draconifors
Type: Transfiguration
Effect: Transfigure the target into a dragon.

Ducklifors
Type: Transfiguration
Effect: Transfigure the target into a duck.

Duro
Type: Charm
Effect: Transform a target object into a stone.

E

Ebublio
Type: Jinx
Effect: Traps the target in a big bubble.

Engorgio
Type: Charm
Effect: Swell the size of the target

Engorgio Skullus
Type: Dark charm
Effect: Swell the target’s skull disproportionately.

Entomorphis
Type: Jinx, Transfiguration
Effect: Temporarily transfigure the target into an insect.

Episkey
Type: Healing Spell
Effect: Heal minor injuries like broken noses or fingers.

Epoximise
Type: Transfiguration
Effect: Glue two objects together.

Erecto
Type: Charm
Effect: Erect structures through the air. Commonly used with tents.

Evanesce
Type: Transfiguration
Effect: Make the target disappear.

Evanesco
Type: Transfiguration
Effect: Similar to Evanesce, used to vanish things.

Everte Statum
Type: Spell
Effect: Throw the target violently backward.

Expecto Patronum
Type: Charm
Effect: A highly powerful charm used to repel dark creatures such as dementors. Can be used to send messages. The Patronus created by the charm, if corporals will take the form of an animal and stay unique to its caster. Unless the caster goes through a strong or traumatic feeling, thus the Patronus can change its form or lose its corporal state.

Expelliarmus
Type: Charm
Effect: Disarm the target by flying out anything they hold in their hands.

Expulso
Type: Curse
Effect: Create an explosion caused by a change in pressure rather than heat.

F

Ferula
Type: Conjuration, Healing spell
Effect: Conjure bandages and wraps them around the targeted area.

Fianto Duri
Type: Charm
Effect: Make shield spells more powerful.

Finestra
Type: Charm
Effect: Break a glass into pieces.

Finite Incantatem
Type: Counter-Spell
Effect: Put an end to spell effects around the target.

Flagrate
Type: Charm
Effect: Let the caster write in the air.

Flintifors
Type: Transfiguration
Effect: Transfigure an object into matchboxes.

Flipendo
Type: Jinx
Effect: Throw the target backward.

Flipendo Duo
Type: Jinx
Effect: A more powerful version of Flipendo.

Flipendo Maxima
Type: Jinx
Effect: The most powerful version of Flipendo.

Flipendo Tria
Type: Jinx
Effect: A more powerful version of Flipendo Duo.

Fumos
Type: Charm
Effect: Create a smokescreen that obstructs visibility.

Fumos Duo
Type: Charm
Effect: A more powerful version of Fumos.

Furnunculus
Type: Jinx
Effect: Causes boils to grow on the target

G

Geminio
Type: Charm
Effect: Duplicate an object. The curse version of this charm will duplicate the object indefinitely.

Glacius
Type: Charm
Effect: Freeze the target with icy air.

Glacius Duo
Type: Charm
Effect: A more powerful version of Glacius.

Glacius Tria
Type: Charm
Effect: Effect: A more powerful version of Glacius Duo.

Glisseo
Type: Charm
Effect: Flatten a stairway step into a slide.

H

Harmonia Nectere Passus
Type: Charm
Effect: Used to repair a Vanishing Cabinet.

Herbifors
Type: Transfiguration
Effect: Spout flowers from the target

Herbivicus
Type: Charm
Effect: Greatly increase plants’ growth speed.

Homenum Revelio
Type: Charm
Effect: Reveal any human presence in the area.

I

Illegibilus
Type: Charm
Effect: Make any writing unreadable

Immobulus
Type: Charm
Effect: Immobilise the target.

Impedimenta
Type: Jinx
Effect: Slow down or stop the target.

Imperio
Type: Curse
Effect: Place the victim completely under the caster’s control. The imperius curse is one of the three Unforgivable Curses.

Impervius
Type: Charm
Effect: Make the target object repel water and mist, keeping it dry.

Inanimatus Conjurus
Type: Transfiguration
Effect: Unknown effect will likely conjure an inanimate object.

Incarcerous
Type: Conjuration
Effect: Conjure ropes or cords that tie the target.

Incendio
Type: Charm, Conjuration
Effect: Produce fire.

Incendio Duo
Type: Charm, Conjuration
Effect: A more powerful version of Incendio.

Incendio Tria
Type: Charm, Conjuration
Effect: A more powerful version of Incendio Duo

Inflatus
Type: Jinx
Effect: Inflates the target with air.

Informous
Type: Charm
Effect: Add a missing page to the book Folio Bruti, otherwise known as the Book of Beasts.

J

No known spells

K

No known spells

L

Lacarnum Inflamari
Type: Charm
Effect: Ignite cloaks.

Langlock
Type: Jinx
Effect: Lock the victim’s tongue to the roof of their mouth. Created by Severus Snape.

Lapifors
Type: Transfiguration
Effect: Transfigure the target into a rabbit.

Legilimens
Type: Charm
Effect: Allow the caster to read the victim’s mind.

Levicorpus
Type: Jinx
Effect: Hold the victims in the air by their ankle. Created by Severus Snape.

Liberacorpus
Type: Counter-Jinx
Effect: A counter-jinx to Levicorpus.

Locomotor
Type: Charm
Effect: Make the target float above the ground before moving it around.

Locomotor Mortis
Type: Curse
Effect: Sticks legs together.

Locomotor Wibbly
Type: Curse, Jinx
Effect: Make the victim’s legs incapable of carrying their owner.

Lumos
Type: Charm
Effect: Make a light source out of the tip of the caster’s wand.

Lumos Duo
Type: Charm
Effect: Create a focused beam of light from the caster’s wand.

Lumos Maxima
Type: Charm
Effect: Create a blinding flash of light from the caster’s wand.

Lumos Solem
Type: Charm
Effect: Produce a blinding flash of sunlight, similar to Lumos Maxima.

M

Magicus Extremos
Type: Charm
Effect: Temporarily increase the casters’ spell power

Melofors
Type: Jinx
Effect: Conjure a pumpkin that imprisons the victim’s head.

Meteolojinx Recanto
Type: Counter-Charm
Effect: Cease weather effects created by jinxes.

Mimblewimble
Type: Curse
Effect: Tie the victim’s tongue in a knot.

Mobiliarbus
Type: Charm
Effect: Make wooden objects float above the ground before moving them around.

Mobilicorpus
Type: Charm
Effect: Make bodies float and move.

Molliare
Type: Charm
Effect: Create an invisible cushion over the target, commonly used in manufactured broomsticks.

Disintegration curse
Type: Curse
Effect: Freeze and kill the victim. The curse will turn the body paler when freezing it, then another twin spell can blast the body into pieces.

Morsmordre
Type: Dark charm
Effect: Conjure the Dark Mark in the air. Used by Death Eathers to reveal their presence.

Mucus ad Nauseam
Type: Curse
Effect: Make the victim get a strong cold and a runny nose causing her to collapse if not treated rapidly.

Muffliato
Type: Charm
Effect: Fill people’s ears with a buzzing preventing them from hearing surrounding sounds.

Multicorfors
Type: Transfiguration
Effect: Change the color and style of the target’s clothes

Mutatio Skullus
Type: Dark charm
Effect: Create mutation in the victim’s head, growing extra heads.

N

Nox
Type: Charm
Effect: Extinguish wand light, counter-charm for Lumos.

Nebulous:
Type: Charm
Effect: Produce fog from the tip of the wand.

O

Oculus Reparo
Type: Charm
Effect: Repaces eyeglasses.

Obliviate
Type: Charm
Effect: Erase targeted memories.

Obscuro
Type: Conjuration
Effect: Blindfolds the target.

Oppugno
Type: Jinx
Effect: Causes targeted objects to attack a victim.

Orbis
Type: Jinx
Effect: Suck the target into the ground.

Orchideous
Type: Conjuration
Effect: Conjure a bouquet of flowers.

Oscausi
Type: Dark charm
Effect: Make the victim’s mouth disappear, replaced with smooth skin.

P

Pack
Type: Charm
Effect: Packs luggage.

Papyrus Reparo:
Type: Charm
Effect: Mend torn pieces of paper.

Partis Temporus
Type: Charm
Effect: Create a temporary gap in the target. Effective against fire barriers.

Periculum
Type: Charm
Effect: Shoots red sparks from the wand’s tip.

Petrificus Totalus
Type: Curse
Effect: Temporarily paralyze the target.

Piertotum Locomotor
Type: Charm
Effect: Animate inanimate targets such as statues and brings them to life.

Piscifors
Type: Transfiguration
Effect: Transfiguration targets into fish.

Point Me
Type: Spell
Effect: Make the caster’s wand point to the north like a compass.

Portus
Type: Charm
Effect: Make a target object into a Portkey.

Prior Incantato
Type: Charm
Effect: Show an echo of the last spell performed by the target wand.

Pullus
Type: Jinx, Transfiguration
Effect: Transfigure target into a chicken.

Protego
Type: Charm
Effect: Conjure an invisible shield that protects against minor spells and entities.

Protego Diabolica
Type: Dark Arts
Effect: Create a black fire ring around the caster that only harms their enemies.

Protego horribilis
Type: Charm
Effect: A powerful shield charm against dark magic.

Protego Maxima
Type: Charm
Effect: A bigger and more powerful variation of Protego. It can be combined with other wizards casting it at the same time for a bigger effect.

Protego totalum
Type: Charm
Effect: Protect the target area against intrusions for an extended period of time.

Q

Quietus
Type: Charm
Effect: Counter-charm to the Amplifying Charm, it will make a target’s sound quieter.

R

Redactum Skullus
Type: Dark charm
Effect: Shrink the target’s head. Acts also as a counter-charm to Engorgio Skullus

Reducio
Type: Charm
Effect: Shrink the size of an object.

Reducto
Type: Curse
Effect: Breaks or disintegrates objects.

Reparifors
Type: Healing Spell
Effect: Heal minor magical ailments.

Reverte
Type: Charm
Effect: Bring back objects to their original positions or states.

Relashio
Type: Jinx
Effect: Force the target to release its grip on whatever it is holding.

Rennervate
Type: Charm
Effect: Wake up unconscious beings.

Reparifarge
Type: Untransfiguration
Effect: Reverse incomplete transfigurations.

Reparo
Type: Charm
Effect: Repair broken objects.

Repello Muggletum
Type: Charm
Effect: Keep the Muggles away from the target idea. The charm will create confusion in the Muggle’s mind urging them to go away.

Repello Inimicum
Type: Charm
Effect: Disintegrate any person crossing a conjured barrier.

Revelio
Type: Charm
Effect: Reveal secrets about a person or object.

Rictusempra
Type: Charm
Effect: Tickle the target into laughter.

Riddikulus
Type: Charm
Effect: Turn a Boggart into a funny form before making it disappear.

S

Salvio hexia
Type: Charm
Effect: Protect against hexes.

Scourgify
Type: Charm
Effect: Clean target objects.

Sectumsempra
Type: Curse
Effect: Creates deep bleeding cuts that can kill the victim. Created by Severus Snape.

Serpensortia
Type: Conjuration
Effect: Conjure a serpent

Silencio
Type: Charm
Effect: Silence the target.

Skurge
Type: Charm
Effect: Clean up ectoplasms and repels ghosts and other spirits.

Slugulus Eructo
Type: Curse
Effect: Make the victim burp up slugs.

Sonorus
Type: Charm
Effect: Make the target sound louder. The counter-charm to this spell is Quietus.

Specialis Revelio
Type: Charm
Effect: Reveal if a spell was cast on the target.

Spongify
Type: Charm
Effect: Soften the target objects and make them bouncy.

Sternius
Type: Dark charm
Effect: Temporarily cause the victim to sneeze.

Stupefy
Type: Charm
Effect: Stuns the target and makes them unconscious.

Surgito
Type: Counter-charm
Effect: Removes enhancements.

T

Taboo
Type: Jinx
Effect: A jinx placed on a word and revealing to the caster the position of anyone who speaks the taboo word.

Tarantallegra
Type: Charm
Effect: Make the target’s leg move uncontrollably.

Tentaclifors
Type: Transfiguration, Jinx
Effect: Change the victim’s head into a tentacle.

Tergeo
Type: Charm
Effect: Clearing liquid out of an object while leaning it.

Titillando
Type: Hex
Effect: Tickle the target.

U

Unbreakable Vow
Type: Spell
Effect: With light filaments coming from the wand of the witch or wizard casting the spell, the hands of the two people who made the vow will be tied together. The consequence of breaking an Unbreakable Vow is dead.

V

Ventus
Type: Jinx
Effect: Fire a jet of strong spiraling wind from the caster’s wand.

Ventus Duo
Type: Jinx
Effect: A more powerful version of Ventus

Vera Verto
Type: Transfiguration
Effect: Transfigure an animal into a goblet.

Verdillious
Type: Charm
Effect: Produce green sparks from the caster’s wand.

Verdimillious
Type: Charm
Effect: Shoot a jet of green sparks from the caster’s wand that can target an opponent or reveal things hidden by dark magic.

Verdimillious Duo
Type: Charm
Effect: A more powerful variation of Verdimillious.

Vermiculus
Type: Transfiguration, Jinx
Effect: Transfigure targets into worms.

Vermillious
Type: Charm
Effect: Shoots a jet of red sparks from the caster’s wand. It can be used to signal the caster’s position.

Vipera Evanesca
Type: Vanishement
Effect: Make conjured snakes vanish. A counter-spell to Snake Summons Spell.

Vulnera Sanentur
Type: Healing Spell
Effect: Healing spell that slows blood flow, closes wounds, and heal lacerations. It is the counter-curse to Sectumsempra.