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Hell no. The earliest known Latin inscriptions date from the 7th century BC; Latin literature dates from the 3rd century BC. Vedic Sanskrit, based on a dialect of northwestern India, dates from as early as 1800 BC and appears in the text of the Rigveda.

 

*claps*.......*mutters*damn goras*mutters* :roll: juuust kidding :lol:

 

Has anyone ever heard of the theory of layering, or charging spells? I think that there is a way to boost a spells power. I mean i somehow doubt that all of Dumbledor's spells are giant collums of magic, that would exhaust him too quickly. I wonder if there is some way to up, or down the power of a spell. Also look at wordless spells. Is there a connection with wandless/wordless spells and Harry lighting his wand tip remotly in book 5???

 

I'm using something similarish in my story. Harry's gonna be able to charge items on his person with magic to draw from when he's near spent, kinda of like a quick boost to get him through, but it's quickly wasted

 

Wandless and power thing

About the wandlesst thing: I think that spells are formed by drawing up raw energy and form it into the spell. Incarnations make it a lot easier because you dont have to feel the magic and form it accordingly to what you want, the incarnation makes this for you.
When a wizard or witch is experienced enough they are able to draw more or less power to make their spells stronger or weaker.

 

I personally hate fics that use a similar description to explain wandless magic, I find wandless controlled magic to be a dumb plot devicebut anyway back to the topic.
I use a combination of french, latin, spanish, and italian to create my spells. for latin i just use the Intertran translator mentioned earlier but for the french, italian, and spanish im fluent in those so its not really a problem. I'm also loking for ancient egyptian but i havent found a translator for that.

 

you probably wont since most ancient egytian was written in hierogliphics... however the hell its spell... and the closest youd get is probably alot like japanese translations symbol to english... but japanese is easier as each symbol represents a letter or group of letters like Ai, Ao, Ki, Ri ect ect.. whereas engyptian was closest translated as symbol = 1 full word as far as i know.. as for spoken .. i think they used arabian or whatever its called... one of those middle eastern languages.. you could try that... but dont take anthing ive said (except the bit about japanese kanji) as fact cuz ive never studied egyptian history or languages...

 

Sanskrit would be the best to use for making ancient spell because its one of the oldest if not the oldest language as well as it is far spread through out the world( to my knowledge) a seprete(sp) dialect(sp) of it was found in mexico and we know that if definetly in india as well as someparts of euro... and so on but egyptian is good thought complexed

 

Here is a virtual book with loads of different spells and creatures.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2147931/1/

 

thanks

 

no problem

 

Oh yes an absolutly wonderous list of spell's and creatures, certainly second to none! Yeh well if anyone can actually find something to translate egyptian on the net hit us up with it! same with inca or aztec there pretty much the oldest societies that exsisted?! there languages would make for awsome spells.

 

Sorry but you cannot be anymore wrong about that. The Aztecs did not begin to be a civilization until 1168 AD and the Incas weren't until 1200 AD. This is during the Middle Ages that these civilizations were founded. However with Egypt it has been around since 3000 BC and Sumeria was around about that time or even earlier. So if you want to have ancient spells from the oldest societies use them and not the Incas and Aztecs.

 

My bad man! China has got a pretty old foundation to it as well! stories where Su Li rips up with ancient Chinese spells is pretty cool! but yeh Sumeria i whole heartedly agree.

 

In my FF,i am going to ignore the option of silent-casting. i am going to work like, that words are the channel from teh intent to thecore, and therefore unless one has decades of practice, he cannot be silent.
also i found an idea, how to make harry semi-wandless, instead of waving his hand and boom, there's a spell, he needs ingredients which consume themselves in the casting.

 

Somehow picturing Voldemort yelling out random latin words in order to do magic ruins the bad ass image. I like the silent magic much better, like the duel between Voldemort and Dumbledore in OotP

 

I would use a latin translator

one thing that annoyed me was that an author wrote that harry was learning spells all over the world, but they all appeared in latin, not very realistic! but im probs jst being picky

 

Well remember that latin was the language for many many years. If wizards can travel in the blink of an eye (apparitation), it is very likely that they would absorb more of those languages, espically if one country is the dominant one. The roman wizards may have also mimicked the roman people and tried to conqure the world, spreading their language all over. This would explain the prevalance of latin in the spells

 

Yes, but if so then the so called Wizarding state of rome must also have crumbled. And if Latin gave way to venacular languages in muggle lands, why didn't it occur in magical world as well. My guess is just that after the Roman dominance, magical people just stopped advancing, hence they never delevoped new systems and institutions like the muggles did, so they end up still using Latin. (hey, that's a decent plot for history of the magical Europe.)

Of course, the "real" pratical reason could just be that Latin spells sounds cool so Rowling used it. I mean which sounds better: "pyro destructem" or "destructive fire"?