Timeline for Spell casting in the Harry Potter series
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| Mar 22, 2017 at 16:56 | comment | added | DoctorWho22 | I was under the impression you don't necessarily need wands to cast spells since there is wandless casting. | |
| May 3, 2014 at 10:55 | comment | added | Oak | Just wanted to add that, if I'm correct and the OP did mean Imperius and Crucio, then Harry learned it from observing it happening/reading about its effects, If I'm correct, during not-so-Moody's classes, and Other tortures (Umbridge If I'm not mistaken), as Pearson mentioned, it takes knowing the effects and having the right disposition, for example, for crucio (when Harry tries to use it on Bellatrix) he's told that he can't use it because he has no desire to actually torture someone at the degree that Crucio does | |
| S Feb 5, 2012 at 19:02 | history | suggested | Tim Post | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Fixed back to back 'first of all'
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| Jan 18, 2012 at 21:37 | comment | added | Blazemonger | I think it would have been fascinating to have a mute or handless wizard in official continuity -- Rowling could have explored exactly how much magic is achievable without a wand and/or speech. | |
| Apr 24, 2011 at 4:41 | vote | accept | JohnP | ||
| Apr 24, 2011 at 4:41 | comment | added | JohnP | Hmm, that has merit. Could be that the initial stages are required to increase your affinity to magic or the magical force. And later on you can do it by feel. But the thing here was, Harry didn't know the wand motion nor the action. He spoke the words and the appropriate spell occurred. Like you mentioned, spells are probably a combination of all three factors with all of them being optional to varying degrees. That would explain it. Thanks for the reply! | |
| Apr 24, 2011 at 3:52 | comment | added | Xantec | mutliple times in the series people are seen casting spells without a wand and/or a verbal component. concentration is probably the only requirement to casting a spell. in the beginning the wand movements and words are probably there to create a magical "true word" of the outcome of the spell and later on they aid the caster in maintaining concentration while casting. this way, spell research would be possible by combining various words and wand motions to create new spells (forming new true words). but this all just my speculation. | |
| Apr 23, 2011 at 13:06 | history | answered | PearsonArtPhoto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |