ENCYCLOPEDIA of HP-VERSE(NOTE on PG-36 PLZ CHECK) - Page 11

Deprimo (de-PREE-moh)

spell name unknown

Etymology uncertain, but perhaps related to "primer", Eng. something used to ignite an explosive charge

Blasts a hole through the target object.

• Hermione used this spell to blast a hole through the sitting room floor of the Lovegoods' house (DH21).

Descendo (deh-SEN-doe)

"descendo" L. descend, come down

Causes something to descend or lower itself.

• Ron used this spell to lower the ceiling hatch and ladder leading to the Burrow's attic (DH6).

• Crabbe cast this spell on a fifty-foot high pile of junk in the Room of Requirement, to make it fall over (DH31).

  
  

Diffindo (dih-FIN-doe)

"Severing Charm" (?)

"diffindo" L. cleave, open

Spell that cuts something open.

• Harry used this spell on Cedric's book bag to slow him down so Harry could tell him about the dragons (GF9).

• Harry cast this in an attempt to sever the tentacles of thought that the attacking brain wrapped around Ron during the battle of the Department of Mysteries (OP35).

• Harry used this spell to slice the cover off his own brand-new copy of Advanced Potion-Making (tapping the cover while saying the spell). He then repeated the spell for the copy of the book he had borrowed from the Potions dungeon's supply of spare textbooks (HBP11).

• Hermione used this spell to cut Ron free of the magical ropes (DH9).

• Harry used this spell to try to cut Mrs. Cattermole free of the chained chair, but it didn't work (DH13).

• Harry used this spell to break the ice on the pool containing the sword of Gryffindor in the Forest of Dean (DH19).

  
  

Disapparate (dis-AP-a-rate)

incantation unknown

"dis-" opposite of, from L. "apart" + "appareo" L. to appear

Apparition (see), as seen from the place a wizard is leaving.

• Daedalus Diggle says that he, Hestia Jones, and the Dursleys will be driving for about 10 minutes before Disapparating to the safe location picked out for the Dursleys (DH3).

• Mundungus panicked and Disapparated when Voldemort came at him (DH5).

• Hermione recommended Disapparating and heading for the countryside from Tottenham Court Road (DH9).

Disarming Charm

See EXPELLIARMUS.

Disillusionment Charm

incantation unknown

"disillusion" Eng. to lose faith

A charm which hides the true, magical nature of something.

• Hippogriffs and winged horses may be kept by wizards as long as they perform a Disillusionment Charm on them regularly so that Muggles won't notice anything strange about them (FB).

• Mad-Eye Moody cast a Disillusionment Charm on Harry to protect him during the trip from Privet Drive to Grimmauld Place ("I'm going to Disillusion you..."). To Harry, it felt as though someone had broken an egg on his head, like a flood of cold running down over him. When under the Charm, his body took on the appearance of whatever was behind him. He felt like a human chameleon. When Moody removed the Charm, it felt like trickling of warmth instead of cold (OP3, OP4).

• The thirteen witches and wizards who came to collect Harry from number four, Privet Drive for the last time used Disillusionment Charms (DH4).

• Hermione used Disillusionment Charms as part of the protective enchantments used to hide the camp she shared with Harry and Ron during the hunt for the Horcruxes (DH15).

• Hermione suggested using a Disillusionment Charm when planning the visit to Godric's Hollow (DH16).

• One of the ways to create an Invisibility Cloak is to imbue a travelling cloak with a Disillusionment Charm (DH21).

• Albus Dumbledore did not need an Invisibility Cloak because he could perform a Disillusionment Charm that was powerful enough to make him effectively invisible without one (DH22).

• Voldemort cast a Disillusionment Charm to conceal himself from anyone watching from Hogwarts Castle when he arrived to rob Albus Dumbledore's tomb; the Disillusionment Charm worked so well that even he could not see himself (DH24).

• Vincent Crabbe, Gregory Goyle, and Draco Malfoy used a Disillusionment Charm to hide in the corridor outside the Room of Requirement during the Battle of Hogwarts, which is how they happened to sneak in when Harry, Ron, and Hermione arrived to search for the diadem of Ravenclaw(DH31).

Dissendium (dis-EN-dee-um)

spell name unknown

uncertain: "dissocio" L. to sever or divide? Possibly similar in sound to "descend."

Comments from Amanda in email:
"Dissocio" in its verb form means "to part" or "to separate". The word "en" can mean both "here!" and "look!" Dium, of course, refers to the sun and normally translates as "day" or "today" but I have seen it used as a command to mean "now." So together dissendium could mean "part/separate here, now!"

Opens the secret door in the statue of the hump-backed witch.

• Harry learnt this word from the Marauder's Map. It is said aloud while the statue is tapped with the caster's wand (PA10)

door-opening spell

no incantation used

Sends a jet of sparks out of the wand, opening the target door.

• Lupin used this spell to open the door of the staff room wardrobe, which contained a Boggart his class was to confront (PA7).

• Harry's bedroom door opened by itself when the Advance Guard came to take him to number twelve, Grimmauld Place (OP3).

• cf. ALOHOMORA

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