Ah yes, the bane of Death Eaters and Malfoys everywhere. Ginny's most-loved hex. A total joke.

What is really the value of this hex? Would it be useful in combat? Is this final proof that Ginny is learning Dark spells years ahead of the Hogwarts curriculum? Is it indeed second only to the dreaded Avada Kedavra itself in destructive potential?

In this topic, I will attempt a catalogue of the known characteristics of this spell, and we will finally find out whether or not Ginny can incapacitate Voldemort with a single hex.

The Hex

Incantation: No clue; something with "mucos" in it I believe. Two words, around two seconds to say.

Delivery: Generic colored bolt, significantly slower than a bullet.

Effect: Causes your 'bogeys' to detach from you nose, assume the shape of a bat (actually I usually visualize them as those Zerg Mutalisks from Starcraft) and attack your face. I assume that they scratch

Theoretical Destructive Potential: Target's head is completely scratched away, leaving only the upper spinal column and the skull. Timeframe several years.

Practical Destructive Potential: Zip. This is a joke spell. Thus, its penetrating power against a shield spell should be way lower than an actual curse. However, lets say that for whatever reason, the hex actually gets to the target. Target laughs when five of his 'bogeys' morph into bats and start attacking him. Why does he laugh; because they are on the same size scale as fleas (how many 'bogeys' can fit in a nose, anyways). They also have the same destructive potential as fleas, that is, given several years, hundreds of fleas, and a non-moving body, they will eventually do damage


Here is a scenario to DEMONSTRATE THE ULIMTATE FIREPOWER OF THIS BATTLESTATION!!! (wait, wrong forum). Ginny versus Death Eater. G spots DE heading into a dark secluded alley. G decides that she wants to show Harry that she can handle herself, so she decides to capture DE. Follows DE into Dark secluded Alley. G points her wand at DE and shouts, "Mucos Volatis!" or something similar. Spell hits DE, who whirls around and retaliates with a spell that G cannot realistically know, since it is probably Dark and she hasn't even finished school (it certainly is not Stupefy). During the following ten-second duel, the DE wonders why his opponent attacked him with a trick-hex.
Summary: Ginny threw a party hat at an armed terrorist. And, since she has demonstrated almost no spell knowledge outside of the Bat-Bogey Hex, she is stuck with her party hat ammunition.

Conclusion: The Bat-Bogey Hex does not deserve a tenth of its reputation. Ginny desperately needs to learn new spells, and fanfiction authors need to stop treating this Hex as an almost all-powerful spell. And finally, Voldemort definitely does not quake in his boots at the name Bat-Bogey.

Attachments: Zerg Mutalisk pictures.

 

That was an excellent treatise on the Bat Bogey Hex. I'm sold. Although, I have thought for the longest time about why canon is fixated on that hex...and of course fanon has squeezed it for all its worth and so much more.

Just laughing, to quote Homer "It's funny because it's true."

 

Surely the Bat-Bogey hex does more damage than a flea over a timeframe of years. At least the sensation of a bat scraping out of your nose and then flying around your face would be somewhat distracting, if not harmful.

Thus, I would say the Bat-Bogey hex would work right along with a Trip-jinx or a Tickling charm... no real destructive value (unless you trip someone into or onto something) but makes a distraction for at least the time it takes to stand back up, or in this case, get the snot off your face.

Now, I'm not saying a Bat-Bogey hex is going to defeat a Death Eater, but hopefully the damn girl would have enough sense not to use it against a Death Eater. Rowling will probably prove me wrong though: Ginny vs Lucius Malfoy 4tw!

But if the Harry Potter cover's give any bit of insight into the story, Ginny will not feature in the actual Horcrux chase and Harry will leave her muffin-baking ass at home where she belongs.

Yeah.

 

I'm fairly sure that it creates some bat-creature thing fairly larger than a flea; probably about as big as someone's nose, and I'd expect it to go for the eyes. That can be quite distracting, I think.

 

How can it create something as big as a nose? My "Flea sized" was based on several assumptions; 1)All the spell does is utilize the mucos (spelled right?) already found in the nose, and 2)The spell creates severel such bat-like creatures. The second may be wrong, but unless the first is also wrong (conjuration of added mucos material), that's not that much raw material. I'll admit though that Flea sized is probably too small.

I agree about going for the eyes. Does the creature(s) created have claws, and if so how sharp are they?

 

I wonder if Harry can find a Bat-Cunt-liquid Hex. Ph3@r the juicy bats.

 

I thought the purpose of the Bat-Boogie Hex was obvious. It gives Ginny something retarded to threaten with when she's Fiery!Weasley Woman!"You better listen to me, Potter!"!Ginny.

Personally, I pictured the Hex as making globs of snot, roughly the size of an eyeball, come out of the nose sporting bat wings. Probably still connected to the nose. Like when they give each other tentacles, only grosser. Probably not a very lady-like spell, but not destructive in the least.

 

Taken from the HP Lexicon..

My conclusion based on this info as that...

a)The spell would hurt in that you'd have several bat-size creatures clawing and biting your face. This is not lethal damage, but annoying... like knicking yourself while shaving.

b)The spell would enrage me and instill a desire to do far worse damage to the uppity bitch that had cast it on me.

c)To fear the red-head bitch because she can cast this spell when I have knowledge of...well any other offensive spell...is idiotic at best.