Calling all wizards

[indy-go.livejournal.com]

For all the HP folk: have you found yourself pulling spell incantations out of your ass, when wanting to do one that JK has not provided? If so, share what you made up in this post, and we can keep it as kind of a dictionary of spells. I myself am limited by my lack of Latin knowledge, but hey...if a German wizard ever shows up, I'm all over that. :P

For all non-HP folk: feel free to chime in. The more, the merrier, as always.

Extra points for humor and/or double entendre.

Comments

[young_tmriddle]

I notice JKR often goes the route of Calming spell or Warming charm - and therefor, that's the route I go :P When I need it, I grab my Latin dictionary and make something up. I also forget what spells she already has written about, so if I make up something for one that already exists, I just pretend that the spell is more advanced than what the kids would be learning at Hogwarts.

[be-holden.livejournal.com]

Well, i am nto an HP thing here - but in fics I have developed spells, potions, and magical objects.

I'll have to poke around though to find them.

[bloody-awful.livejournal.com]

In another RP I'm in the Harry Potter universe, and I make up spells all the time. I use an online Latin dictionary. There are good ones around. :)

[clumsy_auror]

Which ones do you use? I've found a couple, but I'm not too keen on them.

[kassandraloxias.livejournal.com]

www.perseus.tufts.edu , the Perseus Project, is hardcore.

Not extremely user-happy, but for searching single words or connected terms, you should be cool.

Nolite umbraspectans is a spell I've always wished someone would use for Kassandra/Ophelia/The General Mad: "Fear No Shade or Shadow".

[bloody-awful.livejournal.com]

Hi! I wanted you to know I picked up a copy of the Fagles translation of the Iliad today! I'm looking forward to getting into it. It is the one that's the new one, right?

[clumsy_auror]

I just have to take a moment and snicker at seeing such a perky post in Constantine's journal. It gives me the giggles. :)

[spiderine.livejournal.com]

Whoops! I should have posted from this one! *grin*

[clumsy_auror]

No, no, it's fine -- we're all ooc back here, anyhow! It was just a funny visual :)

[kassandraloxias.livejournal.com]

Yes. We likes the Faglessss, my preciousssss. :)

[clumsy_auror]

*nods* That's the one they had us read in First Year humanities. Although I remember the professor scaring the crap out of us by translating directly from the Greek for the class on the first day.

[mogget_cat]

*is going to start first year humanities in a few days, brandishes Fagles translation*

[bloody-awful.livejournal.com]

http://www.nd.edu/~archives/latgramm.htm is the one I use mostly. I find Perseus a bit frustrating.

Peter, Potions and Healing

[pjpettigrew.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's the same one that I use when I need to make up a spell in Latin! Great minds, and all.

Of the spells and potions Peter has used to date, most have been canonical:

Burn-healing paste: Really a necessity at the bar, considering how many wizards, demons and nuclear fission kitties patronise Milliways. If it isn't a demon starting a barfight or a near-omnipotent supernatural sibling of the creators being freed, it's a botched exorcism. (No offense. Honest.)

The burn-healing paste is orange and heals all burns--which is fine if the burns are on the skin and not so fine if the burns are inside the body, like on the retinae of the eyes. For most purposes, though, burn-healing paste works wonderfully.

Peter makes this every couple of weeks. He has to. The stuff gets used up at a fearful rate.

Draught of Peace:

The Lexicon says that this is a tricky potion which is a standard examination question on OWLs. It's taught to fifth-years.

Peter makes it and uses it as a tranquiliser--not, mind, as a sleeping potion, but as something to calm the hysterical or the terminally panicked. Its colour is pale blue, and it glows slightly. A little of it goes a long long way.

Hangover Remedy: Another standard of Peter's--he carries vials of this around with him so routinely that he forgets that everyone doesn't know he supplies this.

Hangover Remedy is clear, like water, and tastes absolutely ghastly. Some people have said that the taste is almost worse than the hangover.

The treatment works like this: one teaspoon of Hangover Remedy if you're a mortal (living or dead); two if you're a giant; three if you're a god, demon, Endless, etc.--and yes, this has been tested in-game. The cure takes place minutes after consuming it. For twelve hours thereafter, a person can drink anything alcoholic and not only not get a hangover, but not get drunk.

This is also a potion Peter makes frequently and in large quantities.

Pepperup Potion: Canonical cold remedy.

Peter has used this a couple of times on people who did not have colds but who had been completely drained of energy--physical and magical. It, like Hangover Potion, takes effect immediately. There are no side effects. Oh, and it's purple.

Sleeping Potion: The canonical version is purple and requires that you drink all of it for the full effect. Peter's sleeping potions, as being used in the Search for Morpheus, are in small vials and require only three sips to knock a person into a deep sleep within minutes.

Sleeping Potion does NOT strip the sleeper of dreams. Even after years of nightmares, Peter is reluctant to use a favourite potion of Tom Riddle's, Dreamless Sleep; he is aware that deprivation of REM sleep (which is the sleep which permits dreams)can unbalance a human mind in a surprisingly short period of time.

Veritaserum: Not strictly medical, but Peter has it anyway, and he's used it twice--once on himself and once on Moiraine Sedai. The dosage used both times was three drops in a shot glass. Three drops are canonically enough to make a person divulge his deepest secrets.

Wound Cleaning Potion: Used on cuts and other open wounds. Peter has used this a few times as well. Canonically, it's purple, emits smoke when the bottle containing it is opened, and stings horribly when applied.

The base healing spell that Peter has used on two or three occasions so far is Medeor--I heal, or I cure. Rudimentary healing spells seem to be pretty common--Tonks and James have both cast healing spells at different times--but I suspect there's a difference in the effect of a healing spell in the hands of someone who has a knack for healing. Most wizards and witches don't seem to have that knack; for them, a healing spell would be like a fully stocked first-aid kit in the house, rather than having a physician at your disposal.

[missginnytonic.livejournal.com]

i go here alot to look them up http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/spells.html