Harry Potter Camp

[Road Runner]

I think that I will have classes start at ten thirty tomorrow instead of ten as I should already be in my tent but I'm just finishing up everything now lol goodnight everybody and oh yeah RIP Alan Rickman and other HP actors we have lost.

 

[Road Runner]

Hey, where is everybody? Are you all still in The Great Hall eating breakfast? Classes are about to start!

 

[mudwhistle]

Oh and one other camping thing will be going on this Christmas and that's all I'm going to say at the moment as you'll find more about it later.

No camping on Halloween......*T000000000 SCARY!!!*

 

[mudwhistle]

Charms (class)

Charms was a subject and core class taught at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As the name suggests, it specialised in the teaching of charms. Even though mastering charm-work was clearly essential to performing the greater part of...

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Charms class – Harry Potter Lexicon

Classwork involves trying and practicing various charms. The Hogwarts Charms teacher is Professor Flitwick (PS8).

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[Road Runner]

No camping on Halloween......*T000000000 SCARY!!!*

"Mr. Mudwhistle, I have been waiting for you to show up to teach your Charms class for hours and now it is time for lunch. Students were sitting around on their asses bored to tears. Would you please explain yourself?" Severus Snape questioned you with an evil glare upon his face.

 

[mudwhistle]

No camping on Halloween......*T000000000 SCARY!!!*

"Mr. Mudwhistle, I have been waiting for you to show up to teach your Charms class for hours and now it is time for lunch. Students were sitting around on their asses bored to tears. Would you please explain yourself?" Severus Snape questioned you with an evil glare upon his face.





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Right now it's 11:11 Central time.
I never saw a schedule posted.
I was up half of the night feeding magical beasts.

 

[Road Runner]

"Very well, but I had to watch Draco and Hermione (Sorry I'm a Dramione fan. XD) making out with each other all morning. Lessons were supposed to be at ten thirty am et. Just work on putting your things together while I go eat. You have one hour. Two at the most."

 

[mudwhistle]

Levitation Charm

The Levitation Charm is one of the first spells learnt by any young witch or wizard. With the charm a witch or wizard can make things fly with the flick of a wand. The charm is an excellent test of your magical skills, wand control and above all, patience.An excerpt from Book of Spells The...

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"The Levitation Charm is one of the first spells learnt by any young witch or wizard. With the charm a witch or wizard can make things fly with the flick of a wand. The charm is an excellent test of your magical skills, wand control and above all, patience." — An excerpt from Book of Spells[src]

The Levitation Charm[4] (Wingardium Leviosa)[1] was a charm used to make objects fly, or levitate.[1] It was taught to first years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.[1][5] There were a number of lesser variations of the Levitation Charm, such as: the Hover Charm, the Rocket Charm, and the Floating Charm, but the Levitation Charm remained the original and best.[3]

History​

"The Levitation Charm was invented in 1544 by warlock Jarleth Hobart who mistakenly believed that he had at last succeeded in doing what wizardkind had so far failed to do, and learnt to fly." — Miranda Goshawk, Book of Spells[src]

Hobart's first public use of the charm, on himself


The Levitation Charm was first developed in the sixteenth century, and warlock Jarleth Hobart is credited with its creation.[3]

On 16 July, Hobart invited a large crowd of wizards, among which was the Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot, to witness his "maiden flight" — a public demonstration of his own revolutionary charm on himself. He climbed onto the roof of his local church and, after several speeches and a rousing performance of the national anthem he leapt and, having cast the spell, was left hovering in mid-air. At first, he seemed to have succeeded but, after having spent nearly three minutes watching him hanging in mid-air, the crowd grew impatient to see him move somewhere, and booed him.[3]

In response to the catcalls, Hobart tried to move in midair, and started performing vigorous swimming movements, which produced no effect. Mistakenly believing that his clothes were making him heavier and impeding his movement, Hobart stripped thus making him fall ten feet onto the ground below, as it were the clothes that were holding him up in the air — they had been charmed by the Levitation Charm, not Hobart himself. He fell completely naked on the ground, breaking sixteen bones, and received a fine for "outrageous silliness" from the Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot in 1544.[3]

Hobart returned home, humiliated, where he realised that his spell could make objects levitate for varying lengths of time, depending on the skill of the spell-caster and on the weight of the object. He also concluded that small animals or even children could be levitated, but that they had no control whatsoever of their movement once airborne.[3]

He thus made a second announcement, and an even larger crowd gathered to see his second demonstration of the spell (hoping for another laugh at his expense). Hobart's demonstration was, at first, by far more successful than the first one: he showed the onlookers how he could easily levitate objects ranging from small rocks to fallen trees. Hobart decided that, for a finale, he would levitate the Chief Warlock's hat — what he managed to levitate, however, was the Chief's wig, exposing his bald head to the gathered crowd. The Chief was not amused, and was determined to duel Hobart, but the Warlock levitated the Chief's robes over his head, and ran for it.[3]

This is also the first spell students learn to cast during their Charms lessons in the first year.[1][5] They revise it in the second[6] and their third year.[7] The theoretical Charms O.W.L. exam includes a question on the Levitation Charm.[8] Hermione Granger was the first student in her class to levitate a feather much to Ronald Weasley's annoyance.[1]

Effects​

"He eventually realised that he had invented a spell that would lift objects into the air and could cause them to hover for varying lengths of time, depending on their weight, and the skill of the spellcaster." — An excerpt from the entry in Book of Spells[src]

The movement shown on a blackboard

Swish and Flick

The Levitation Charm appears to be an improvement on both the Levitation Spell and Locomotion Charm and/or the Hover Charm, being able to lift objects high in to the air but also allowing one to magically move them through it as well. It also conveniently defies gravity by lifting objects heavier than a normal person would otherwise be able to carry, as seen when Ron used this on a troll's club, something a first year Hogwarts student would otherwise never be able to do without magic.[1]


"This charm ought not to be seen as a joke spell. It can be most useful in duels and can lift physical obstacles and can even Levitate small creatures (though this is likely to confuse any poor animal and is certainly not to be encouraged)." — An excerpt from Book of Spells.[src]




Despite its strengths, however, the Levitation Charm has one fatal flaw: it does not work on human beings. Though a human can be levitated using this charm, it is actually their clothing that is being affected. The charm is apparently not strong enough to allow a human to do anything more that float a few feet off the air using this method, and therefore does not allow the true flight afforded to most other objects.[3]

Almost anything can be lifted with this spell, although the object levitated depends on the skill of the caster and the weight of the object.[3]

The effects of this charm can be reversed with the General Counter-Spell.[9]

Known uses​

Ron Weasley: "Wingardium Leviosa!" Hermione Granger: "You're saying it wrong. It's Wing-gar-dium Levi-o-sa, make the 'gar' nice and long." Ron Weasley: "You do it, then, if you're so clever" — Hermione being condescending toward Ron[src]

Caster(s)​	Date​	Notes
Jarleth Hobart	1544	The first use of the spell was that of Hobart using it on himself as he leapt from the roof of a local church, remaining suspended in mid-air for a brief period of time before the crowd of wizards gathered to watch his new spell.[3]
Delphini	31 October, 1981 (alternate timeline)	Delphini used this spell to attack Harry Potter with a church pew, but failed to do so as Harry rolled over to avoid being crushed under it.[10]
Filius Flitwick	1986–1987 school year	Used this spell to cause Rita Skeeter to levitate during a Charms lesson, in order for Jacob's sibling to practically demonstrate the General Counter-Spell.[9]
Draco Malfoy	June, 1996	Used it during his Theory of Charms exam.[8]
31 October, 1981 (alternate timeline)	Draco used this spell to elevate Delphini in the air and out of sight.[10]
Jacob's sibling	1987–1988 school year	Used this spell to levitate themselves into the air in the Forbidden Forest, in order to see the Centaurs up high.[11]
Hermione Granger	31 October, 1991	Hermione was the first student in her charms class to master the spell in the first lesson; whilst doing so she attempted to teach Ron Weasley how to correctly cast the spell, much to his annoyance.[1]
Ron Weasley	31 October, 1991	Ron used this spell to defeat a Mountain Troll which Professor Quirrell had let into the school.[1]
2 May, 1998	He also used the spell again seven years later to levitate a twig in order to press the knot on the tree that was trying to beat him up which would freeze the aforementioned tree.[12]
Bill Weasley	August, 1994	Used this spell to levitate the table to fight a table levitated by his brother Charlie.[13]
Charlie Weasley	Used this spell to levitate the table to fight a table levitated by his brother Bill.[13]
Rita Skeeter	13 November, 1994	Used it non-verbally to levitate the candles in the Broom cupboard.[14]
Lee Jordan	1996	Lee used this spell twice to levitate Nifflers into Dolores Umbridge's office to annoy her; however, eventually another of his teachers, Rubeus Hagrid got blamed for it instead.[8]
Harry Potter	June, 1996	Used it during his Theory of Charms exam.[8]
18 June, 1996	He later used it during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries in the Brain Room in an attempt to remove some brains from himself, which managed to attack him.[15]
27 July, 1997	Harry used the spell during the Battle of the Seven Potters to levitate the side-car he was sitting in after it was separated from the motorbike it was connected too.[16]
Severus Snape (possibly)	October 1996	Snape may have used this spell so that he could examine a cursed necklace without touching it, though that might have been a Hover Charm.[17]
Minerva McGonagall	1 May, 1998	McGonagall used this spell during the Ousting of Severus Snape, causing a torch to fly off of its bracket and spin around, creating a wild movement of flames similar to that of a lasso in an attempt to thwart the Death Eater.[18]

 

[Road Runner]

(I hope you know I'm just playing with you btw. Now we need students to show up and I seriously do I have to go eat. I should have done a Mrs. Weasley though and have be like where have you been!? No note! Bed empty! Car gone! You could have died! You could have been seen!! (Sorry, had a phone call but I already told you that I could recite these movies. XD)

 

[mudwhistle]

(I hope you know I'm just playing with you btw. Now we need students to show up and I seriously do I have to go eat. I should have done a Mrs. Weasley though and have be like where have you been!? No note! Bed empty! Car gone! You could have died! You could have been seen!! (Sorry, had a phone call but I already told you that I could recite these movies. XD)

Hun.....I'm retired....so I have the time.
I think to prevent confusion...we should post a syllabus with schedules and required reading before class begins.

 

[Road Runner]

Hun.....I'm retired....so I have the time.
I think to prevent confusion...we should post a syllabus with schedules and required reading before class begins.

Okay, I have an idea.

 

[mudwhistle]

Hun.....I'm retired....so I have the time.
I think to prevent confusion...we should post a syllabus with schedules and required reading before class begins.

Okay, I have an idea.

The other option is just let people pop in whenever they like and just have a suspense date for posting of classes by professors.

 

[Road Runner]

Well I just posted my other topic so here's when I can just go ahead and use my imagination and get my lesson ready for (hopefully) when other people start showing up.

(First, here's a little review of the Wingardium Leviosa spell. )







Professor Potterhead waited until the bell stopped ringing and for everybody to take their seats before the chalk magically levitated and started writing on the chalkboard the assignment for today. "Now today class as you can see we're going to talk about the wand lighting spell." She began after she cleared her throat. "Now this spell was not invented until the eighteenth century and it was invented by a witch named Levina Monkstanley in 1772.




Now this spell is simple, but requires concentration. The incantation for this spell is Lumos and it lights the tip of ones wand so they will be able to see in the dark. It requires a loop motion with ones wand like tying ones shoes. Let me demonstrate."










That's when suddenly the bell rang. "Alright now don't forget to practice both the levitation and wand lighting spell and there will be a quiz on the levitation spell tomorrow. Exchange correct answers for house points!!"

 

[Road Runner]

You know, if we really start enjoying this we can just do a regular Harry Potter roleplay after camp's over.

 

[Road Runner]

Btw, tonight at ten pm et we will be seeing a light display show of Hogwarts. (Oh and tonight at nine virtual campfire fun returns and probably some time after the light show I will be posting A Very Potter Sequel. ) Right now I think I'm going to go head to The Great Hall to get some sweets.










(And this is just for the heck of it, for like no reason at all lol)

 

[mudwhistle]

You know, if we really start enjoying this we can just do a regular Harry Potter roleplay after camp's over.

Anything's possible.

 

[Road Runner]

Sorry that I was gone so long. Moaning Myrtle flooded the bathroom again.








Anyways, I found some really cool magic stuff.

 

[mudwhistle]

Fire-Making Spell​

Fire-Making Spell
Incantation	Incendio (in-SEN-dee-o)
Type	Charm
Hand Movement
Light	Fire
Effect	Jet of flame

[Source]
"From lighting a warm hearth to igniting a Christmas pudding, the Fire-Making Spell is always useful around the wizarding household. However, the ability to produce fire with the flick of a wand can be dangerous to your fellow students (and worse, your books)." —Miranda Goshawk
The Fire-Making Spell, also known as the Fire-Making Charm (Incendio) is a charm that can be used to conjure a jet of flame, thereby setting things alight.

Contents​

• Known uses
• Known practitioners
• Etymology
• Behind the scenes
• Appearances
• Notes and references

Known uses​

""Incendio!" said Mr Weasley, pointing his wand at the hole in the wall behind him. Flames rose at once in the fireplace, crackling merrily as though they had been burning for hours." —Arthur Weasley uses this spell at the Dursleys' house in 1994.

Fire-Making Spell

The Fire-Making Spell, also known as the Fire-Making Charm (Incendio) is a charm that can be used to conjure a jet of flame, thereby setting things alight. Orabella Nuttley Albus Dumbledore (possibly) Arthur Weasley Bellatrix Lestrange (possibly) Colin Creevey Filius Flitwick (possibly) Fred...

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[Ziggy]

This looks complicated...
What are the rules?
Are there rules?
And I suppose I would be a student.. like pre-kindergarten..
So go easy on me okay?
Hugs

 

[Road Runner]

It's sort of difficult to understand unless you're a Potter fan, but hey mudwhistle, I'm just finishing up my Harry Potter fanfiction but then I'll be back and post some more cool magic tricks for you alright? (Seriously, I'll be here in a few minutes. )