SPELLS DICTIONARY-I
A spell created by the Half-Blood Prince. Glues the subject's tongue to the roof of their mouth. It even works on Peeves. Probably derived from the French "langue" ("tongue") and the English "lock".
A non-verbal spell, invented by the Half-Blood Prince in which the victim is dangled upside-down by their ankles with a flash of light. Described "as though an invisible hook had hoisted Ron Weasley up by the ankle". Used in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, where Harry Potter learns it by reading notes written by the Half-Blood Prince. From Snape's pensieve, Harry watches his father, James Potter, use the spell against Severus Snape. It may also have been used in GoF during the Quidditch world cup. Latin levis = light + corpus = body. "Levi" may also be short for "levitate", itself derived from "levis".
Non-verbal (keep in mind all spells may be non-verbal) counter-jinx for Levicorpus. Emits a flash of light and frees the target of being hoisted by their ankle. "Libera" from "Liberare" means "to set free" and "corpus" means "body", in Latin. Though this is the Half-Blood Prince's creation, it can be speculated that Tonks used this spell to free Harry from Petrificus Totalus inside the Hogwarts Express, as the spell she used also emitted a flash of light.
The target of the spell, which is said after "Locomotor", rises in the air and can be moved around by the wizard. Tonks uses it in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix to move Harry's trunk ( "Locomotor Trunk" ). "Locomotor" can be interpreted from "locus" (place) and "movere" (movi, motum: to move) "to move to another place".
The leg locker curse. Malfoy uses this on Neville in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
In the Philosopher's Stone video game, this is used to stun enemies for a short period of time.
"Mortis" is Latin for "death"; therefore, the spell is intended to mean "death of motion".
This spell creates a narrow beam of light that shines from the wand's tip, like a torch. It comes from the Latin term lumen, meaning a light. Despite it being rudimentary, the charm is used countless times throughout the series. Different versions of this spell used in the movie are Lumos Solem and Lumos Maxima, and the way the light is emitted is different too - in the books, it is described as 'a beam of light', but in the PoA movie, Snape's application of Lumos created a sphere of light. It may also cause the wand tip to burst into flames, as used in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix to destroy a secret message from Albus Dumbledore.
