Yeah, maybe the rest of the world's people will have enough brain cells to realize Ginny is some two bit fangirl who Rowling thought would be good with Harry because she lives in a damn Fairy tale.
Bad spells: any spell that is in a modern language other than the speakers native tongue.

 

We can dream, can't we.

 

If only but we post something good and decent stuff, and the Fangirls will scream us for going against what Rowling wrote, or because we saw to Ginny or the other people they love got cut to ribbons.

 

Well... If Harry Potter were set in japan and made into an anime, all the spells would either be latin or english.

But in fics? English spells... bleh. Though one wonders about the mechanics. Presumably the reason most spells are latin is because they were invented when latin was the dominant language of the learned. Following this, english spells, mechanically at least, should be possible.

But they don't make for good fanfiction, and often sound stupid, so let's stick with latin.

That said, I don't particularly like when people make up words for spells and say "Oh, it's elvish, or some other mythical language bullshit". If you're going to make up words that sound cool for spells, do it in a Dresden Files fic, keep it out of HP proper.

 

AK is in Aramaeic.

 

I thought it was a perversion of "Abra Kedabra".

 

I thought it was a corruption of abracadabra.

 

I think that the general point that was being made is that most spells should not be based off of a modern, commonly spoken language.

 

When I finish my Apprenticeship in Spell Research, I'm going to start creating spells that are in grammatically correct English. And use materials that are commonly found around the house - ketchup packets and philodendron leaves.
* glances toward the foot of the bed *
And shed cat fur.

 

Uhhh good luck with that

 

Hermione?

 

No it's definitely Banner, you know, the one with the twisted sense of humor?

I wonder how much the incantation actually affects spells, wandless and silent magic are a norm in the last two books. I would assume that incantations are just like keywords, Theoretically if you designed your own spell the incantation could be "fuck off cat fur" and it would'nt make that much of a difference. Still it might not be as much fun as shouting something that sound's cool like Tors or Crucio.

 

Maybe all the spells were invented back when everyone spoke latin...

On the subject of spell creation, I read a fanfiction where the power of the spells depends on how many 7's there were in its magical matrices or something and that avada kedavra, crucio and imperious curses were all 7's.

Off topic, i know but I just thought it was creative.

MY spell addition is the all powerful "Viagrus" which allows you to have sex for hours!:banana:

 

In my estimation, Arithmancy would be the key to all spell creation, with the incantation of the spell, at its creation, would logically be descriptive of what the spell did, but not a rule. So, hypothetically, you could create a spell that severed the spinal column, and name it "flora".

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Well I think we have the newest addition to the terrible spell list right there folks. And seriously if you need the spell you should just keep it in your pants cause your either a) too old b) fat and should not be reproducing or maybe both .... ewww not going there.

 

Any sex spell in general, specifically one used for Role playing Sex, its gotten old.

 

More like the spells that are taught at Hogwarts were either invented by the Romans, or gathered from conquered nations and subsequently spread as part of a standardized method. It might not even be the best way to do magic, but since it's so widespread everybody has to use it. Sort of like MS Windows.

I can't imagine that the Chinese would use Latin spells...or folks like the Maori who had zero chance of encountering the Ancient Romans.

And while there's no reasons why spells couldn't be developed in Modern languages, why bother? Wizards tend to be rather lazy...if it isn't broken, don't fix it.

 

Abrakadabra is Aremaec too.

 

To be destroyed as I speak.

 

About that arithmancy thing I know I read some fic where Harry was big into Arithmancy and math paid a bunch of muggle hackers at a college to come up with counters to the "equations" he was giving them. The basic idea was something like that all magic had a frequency and all you needed to counter it was the opposite frequency or something like that. It sounded interesting at first but he eventually devolved the idea into he had a counter for every spell including AK and he couldnt be touched.