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