TOP 10 HARRY POTTER SPELLS THAT COULD KILL YOU
There’s no shortage of amazing spells in the Potterverse.
But some have more nefarious effects than others.
We’ve done a list on the dumbest spells in Harry Potter, but this time around, we’re
going a more sinister route, and taking a look at the top 10 harry potter spells that
could kill you.
So let’s jump in.
10 The Transmog-rif-ian Torture Starting off this list with some good ol torture,
the transmogrifian torture is a curse that tortures it’s victims to death.
Note that it’s different that the crew-she-at-us curse as it actually kills it’s victims
rather than just stimulating the victim’s pain receptors.
The word transmogrifian comes from the english word transmogrify which means to change or
alter greatly, often to grotesque effect.
Which implies that the curse changes the shape of the victim as part of the torture.
9 Expelliarumus - The Disarming Charm Disarming?
That doesn’t sound like it could kill you.
NAH THINK AGAIN FRIENDS.
So realistically, casting this spell won’t result in any immediate fatalities, yes that’s
true.
But think of it as the foreplay to murder.
Yep, foreplay.
We’re talking death here guys, gotta make it light somehow.
Anyway, if your opponent disarms you, it leaves you wide open to any attack without defending
yourself, unless you’re incredibly skilled at wandless magic.
8 Depulso Moving into spells that can cause you immediate
damage and kill you, let’s take a look at Depulso, the Banishing Charm.
It’s used to make your target fly towards a specific location, and is the direct opposite
of the summoning charm.
It comes from the latin word depulsio, which means drive away.
So how can it kill you and others?
Need to push someone off a cliff?
Got it.
How about fly a heavy object at your target?
Done.
And if that object is something sharp like a big ol sword or axe?
Well, I think your target is done for.
7 The Molly Weasley Curse So this one is likely a combination of Duro
(the hardening charm) and another twin jinx that blasts the target to pieces.
Weasley used the curse on Bellatrix Lestrange during the Battle of Hogwarts, killing her.
The victim is turned solid and then shattered.
6 Diffindo - The Severing Charm Used for a variety of different wizarding
trades, diffindo accurately cuts or tears objects.
And while it’s generally used in professions like tailors - it was actually invented by
one named Delfina Crimp in the 15th century - if used incorrectly it can severely injure
someone or cause death.
We’ve seen Harry use this spell a few times for practical purposes like cutting Cedric’s
book bag to delay him from class and to replace the cover of his potions book in Half Blood
Prince.
But he also used it defensively in the battle of the department of mysteries and even tried
to use it to break a horcrux, among other instances.
5 Antonin Dolohov’s Curse This one is particularly nasty.
So this is a curse that Death eater Antonin Dolohov specializes in, and is characterized
by a sudden slashing movement with the wand, causing a streak of purple flame it strike
the target.
It’s speculated to cause severe internal damage to the target- in the books, when Hermione
is hit with it, she had to take ten different types of potions each day to fully recovery,
and that was without Dolohov saying the incantation aloud.
It’s also speculated that this was the curse that killed Remus Lupin.
Similar to most dark spells, Dolohov’s curse can be stopped with a shield charm, but even
that won’t fully do the trick - it stops the worst of it, and doesn’t block it completely.
4 Expulso Expulso is a curse that creates a large explosion
when it collides with it’s target with a burst of blue light.
Similar to another number coming up on this list, this spell causes explosions, and some
have argued that this occurs due to the local pressure increasing when the spell is cast.
In latin, expulso means expel.
In the films we save Dolohov and Harry both give it a go.
And while it can blast people backwards, if the spell was cast by someone powerful enough,
logic argues that it could probably do the same thing it does to walls and other inanimate
objects.
Blow them to bits.
3 Sectumsempra - sec-tum-semp-ra Invented by Severus Snape, this curse causes
wounds as if they were slashed by a sword.
It results in deep wounds and the victim run the risk of dying from blood loss if the strike
wasn’t instantly fatal.
Harry discovered it in his Advanced Potion Making text book that belonged to the Half
Blood Prince aka Snape, and used it on Draco Malfoy without knowing its effects.
It was also used during the battle of the seven potters, where Snape missed his target
and accidentally cut off George Weasley’s left ear, and due to the nature of the curse,
and unknown counter curse, he was unable to have it regrown.
2 Confringo - kon FRING goh Anything that comes into contact with the
spell to explode and burst into flame.
Some argue that the reason for the accompanied flames is due to a sharp local temperature
increase when the spell it cast.
It’s etymological roots come from latin and translate into the word destroy, or ‘I
break’.
It’s first known use on record was in 1430 by Alberta Toothill in the All England Wizarding
Duelling Competition where she, the underdog, defeated Samson Wiblin with the curse.
It is also assumed that this was the spell used by Peter Pettigrew on November 1 1981
that killed 12 muggles- a crime that Sirius Black took the blame for.
1 Killing Curse - Avada Kedavra One of the unforgivable curses, the killing
curse is, well self explanatory, to put it lightly.
It causes instant death regardless of where it hits the victim, and is accompanied by
a green light and a rushing noise.
Along with Imperius and crew-she-at-us, it was not officially made an unforgivable curse
until 1717, and the use of the curse on another human would result in a life sentence in Azkaban.
The etymological root of the word comes from abracadabra, which means let the thing be
destroyed, in which the ‘thing’ was usually illness, but JK Rowling reapproriated it to
make that thing, I quote, “the person standing in front me”.
There we have it friends!
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