Hair-thickening Charm -
Hex-Deflection -
hexes -
Homenum revelio -
Homorphus Charm -
horn tongue -
Horton-Keitch Braking Charm -
hot air charm -
Hover Charm -
Hurling Hex
no incantation given
A spell which lengthens and thickens a person's hair.
Miles Bletchley cast a jinx on Alicia Spinnet that made her eyebrows grow to cover her eyes. Snape refused to accept that a member of the Slytherin team would do such a thing, suggesting instead that Alicia had cast a Hair-thickening Charm (evidently the spell used) on herself, presumably to make her hair look better (OP19).
A form of magic or class of spells that defend the caster against hexes.
The fake Moody included Hex-Deflection in his fourth-year Defence Against the Dark Arts classes (GF28).
The following spells are known as hexes.
Homenum revelio (HOM-eh-num reh-VEL-ee-oh)
"homoinis" L. human being + "revelo" L. to unveil, uncover
Reveals human presence in the target area.
Cast by Hermione just after she, Ron, and Harry entered number twelve, Grimmauld Place (DH9).
"homo" Gr. the same + "morph": Eng. change shape
[force a werewolf
not to change]
or
"homo" L. man + "morph": Eng. change shape [force
werewolf into human shape]
A good charm to use against a werewolf. Its exact effects aren't given.
Lockhart supposedly used this charm to defeat the Wagga Wagga werewolf and demonstrated the feat in Defence Against the Dark Arts (CS10).
no incantation given
Transfigures the target's tongue to a bony substance resembling horn, presumably.
Harry, looking for spells to help him combat a dragon, wisely decided not to use this one as it would just give the dragon one more weapon (GF20).
no incantation given
Makes a racing broom easier to handle.
Invented and patented by Basil Horton and Randolph Keitch, the founders of the Comet Trading Company (QA9).
no incantation given, but involves a complicated wand motion
Fires off a jet of hot air from the end of the caster's wand.
Hermione used this charm to melt snow and dry off her snow-covered robes (OP21).
Dumbledore used something similar on Harry's wet robes, but the spell he cast instantaneously made the robes warm and dry and didn't involve any wasted wand motion (HBP26).
no incantation given
Makes an object float in the air.
Dobby used this spell (without wand or incantation) to float Aunt Petunia's violet pudding in the air (CS2).
Hermione had to use one on Harry to get him into his bunk while he was unconscious after their visit to Godric's Hollow (DH17).
See also LEVITATION CHARM.
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A nasty kind of hex that can be placed on a broom. The effect is presumably to make the target broom attempt to hurl its rider off.
When Harry's Firebolt was stripped down to be checked for jinxes and curses, Flitwick checked whether it had a Hurling Hex on it. It didn't (PA12).
This may have been the spell Quirrell cast on Harry's Nimbus 2000 to try to throw him off (PS11).
