Ummm...
A pack of cigarettes?

 

Favorite cannon spell gota be the levitation spell. Its simple but there's so much you can do with it. Favorite fannon spell? A tie between Silprono(sp?) and Fulgaris. I forgot what the first does, I think its a banishing charm it just sounds cool. Fulgaris is Miranda Flairgold's insta kill spell. Fries everything from annoying vampires to a whole block of death eaters, pretty sure thats the spell Harry, sorry... whatever the hell his new name is, uses in one of her latter battles.

 

Her? I hate gender changing Harry.
So basically its a fire bombing spell, yeah that might draw attention.

 

Actually, Fulgaris is an electricity spell. It's Harry's favorite, because it Really Hurts vampires. Harry used it so often (particularly against the vampires at the school,) that he got it to the point where he could cast a major lightning bolt.

* still giggling at the image of Harry Tasering a vamp right behind the canine teeth - the vamp was still screaming several minutes later *

 

A lot of people here I see have criticised canon spells. While I do agree that they are rather limited and few since Harry is the magical equivalent of an imbecile, JKR has provided me at least with three spells I adore.

Some of you might have guessed this already: The Unforgivables.

While there are some fanfiction invented spells that are flashier, containing godly amounts of rampant destructions, slaughtering free transportation grandmothers and nephews, forcibly amputating body parts and aborting children with the equivalent of a catapult in the gallic wars, nothing compares to the sublime, cold efficiency of the Killing Curse.

Have an annoying ginger haired problem? Freedom, life and eternal sexual pleasure with a blonde French quarter-veela is two words away.

The dragon in the First task could likewise be handled very simply with a Killing Curse, anywhere. That is the sublimity of the spell. You may miss the heart with an Organ Decaying Curse, miss the skull with a Bone Breaking Charm, merely cut someone's hair with a deadly Amputation curse, but you can hit a Weasley in the toe with Avada Kedavra and he drops dead just as good.

The uses of the Cruciatus Curse are best directed against garden gnomes and house elves under the Ministry reign, but hearing Griphook scream his lungs out after he had dared adress Harry Potter is just as sublime.

In a world where the slightest political advantage can stave off an Azkaban stay, pass legislation, control legislation, impersonate people, the Imperius Curse is a Politician's sublime wish.

 

Yes, we don't know for certain, but we can make a good guess of it. Canon!Harry is slightly above average with his spellwork. Seeing how he had difficulty learning the summoning charm, and the fact that he picked up stupefy, impedimenta, and reducto seemingly without difficulty suggests that they are somewhat easy spells for 4th year canon!Harry. Since he learned these spells, and not say protego (which was probably out of his reach at that point in time), points to these spells being 4th year equivalent spells, and not OWL or NEWT level spells.

I don't know why you guys are arguing against this. I only have a problem with the (surprisingly) popular idea that reducto blasts apart body parts in a spray of gore/blood, or causes other severe bodily damage. I don't know who first used this, but it's become one of the worst cliches in HP fanfiction, with literally almost every other fic featuring this. Sure it takes some time to make your own spells and other original ideas, but this is no excuse for copping out and using reducto as the body exploding, instant death spell that it has become in fanon.

I was reading Jbern's Bungle In The Jungle/Turn Me Loose these past two days, and I'm surprised he is a subscriber to this idea. His fics feature many original ideas and spells, and have very little cliches, so I have no idea why he would use this, which is, as I said above, one of the worst/infuriating cliches in HP fanfiction. It didn't really dampen my enjoyment in this instance, because they are supremely awesome fics in every other sense, but it is one of the very few fics with this cliche that I liked.

 

Aye, the Unforgivables are the best spells canon has to offer. While Avada is cool, I prefer the use of subtlety via the Imperius.

Need someone dead? Imperio some schmuck to do it for ya. Cash? No problem, Imperio a rich guy and send them to collect some. But the real potential of this spell comes in interrogation. Why use legillimency when it can be stopped by occlumency? Imperio the prick and get him to spill all his dirty secrets, it makes brewing veritaserum in secret pointless.


Favorite potion comes from some fic I read a while back. Difficult to brew it requires some of the makers blood and is bottled in a flask or whatever. Released from its container it reacts with oxygen to create magical flames that burn through everything it touches, but doesn't harm whoever the blood belonged to. I think it was called Dragons Breath or something like that.

 

* blink *
I can see A Lot of possibilities for that one.

 

I'm pretty sure you can't use the Imperius curse like that. I'm not sure if it is canon, a JKR interview, or whatever, but I don't think that is a possible use for the Imperius curse. And yes, it's been done many times before in fanfics. I'm not a fan of it because it pretty much removes the use of veritaserum if you could just Imperius them and have them tell you the truth. Also, it would make the Imperius way overpowered, at least more than it already is.

Now that I think about it, doesn't it mention in GoF that Barty used veritaserum on Moody to find out everything about him so he could pose as Moody without making anyone suspicious? If the Imperius worked like that, Barty would have done it because he clearly showed he has no compunctions about using the Unforgivables.

Basically, I refuse to acknowledge this as a use of the Imperius curse.

edit: about the potion you mentioned. I remember that. It is used in that fic where Harry fools everybody, traps Voldemort in his mind, and attempts to kill himself to take out Voldemort with him. Snape stops him at the last second, removes him from Hogwarts, heals him, and becomes his mentor. It was one of the better fics where Snape has a big role. I forget the name of it.

 

Removes the use of veritaserum? Only for people who aren't concerned with that pesky little life sentence that comes with Imperio. But it's not exactly a foolproof way. There has to be more wizards then just Harry who can break an Imperius Curse, so it can't be exactly insta-win.

But, yeah, I think that JKR said you couldn't use it like that, which makes no sense to me. I don't think she gave a reason. Why the hell couldn't it be used like that?

 

Occlumency/Legilimency has the most potential. A master occlumens can overcome any mind altering spells and potions with a mere thought. As for the best spell, I would have to say whatever the fuck that spell Dumbledore threw at Voldemort in book 5. You know the one that Harry could feel from quite a good distance away. It is really a tie between that and the spell Dumbledore used to take out a room full of people when they cornered him in his office.

I have to say that Dumbledore tends to get the best spells. I mean he shows no regard for magical laws whatsoever. Want some food? Yeah, he can conjure that, and based on what the examiner told Harry I would say he was doing stuff like that well before he got the elder wand. I mean the man invented a new form of magical transportation. I have to say that some things in cannon don't make sense like when you look at the spells Harry's father and friends created, Snape, Dubledore, Tom, and then finally the twins' spells are all very creative, but when you see Hermione, Ron, and Harry they all fail hard, and Hermione is supposed to be the smartest (student) witch in Hogwarts.

 

Hermione is the smartest witch in her generation.

The problem is, her generation is filled with incompetent dipshits, so that really isn't all that hard.

 

Holy fucking inane necro batman.

 

Holy shit. I didn't even notice the date.

Edit: Wtf. I don't ever go past the first page of topics, and I could have sworn that this was at the top of the list. I'm very confused.

 

It wasn't a pointless addition, faget. He said something he thought would add to the discussion.

I for one don't find it ridiculous. An integral part of the Imperius curse is suppressing the victim's will. That means you can't let the victim think too much... in fact, the voice commanding in Harry's head when he's under the Imperius curse has a strong resemblance to the hypnosis mechanism. Ordering the victim to think for himself and answer your question? Unless you want him to break the curse himself... bad idea.

 

This...is actually a pretty good explanation for the technical reason why it wouldn't work.

 

An addition - in the vein of 'better living through modern chemistry':

Transfigure person x's clothing into caustic lye.

Aguamenti.

Watch the lulz.

 

The 3 unforgivables, Avada Kedavra, Imperio and Crucio most feared and most deadly in cannon.

Plus I like how avada kedavra sounds.

 

given that mispronounciations of spells often have crazy and wacky effects, I can't help but imagine a fight between Voldie and Harry in which the killing curse is flying, and Harry just gives up and starts yelling Abra Kadabra.

 

My favorite spell in canon is Fiendfyre. Something about cursed flames hotter than the sun arouse me