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Featured Spell
Edit SpellKnockback Jinx
- Incantation: Flipendo
- Spell Branch: Charms
- Magical Disciplines: Jinxes
- Appearance: Blue and yellow light. Loud bang as it hits the object.
- Description: Knocks the target backwards. Prominently used for duelling, but can be used to push heavy objects. It will break fragile objects.
First Year students learn this spell and Second Year students are expected to be proficient. It is taught either in charms or defences.
- Regulations: None
- Skill Level: Beginner
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Character Statistics
- Character Pages: 2050
- Pure-blood: 561
- Half-blood: 1040
- Muggle-born: 275
- Male: 1044
- Female: 982
- Other Gender: 24
- Child: 62
- Adult (17+): 1985
Did You Know?
There is no known way to magically reunite a person's soul with their body once they have died. Many young witches and wizards discovered this through the story of Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump (in which the protagonist Babbitty is blackmailed by a charlatan to perform magic for a king, but doesn't bother raising her wand when the king attempts to raise a dog from the dead.) During the six centuries have elapsed since Beedle wrote the tale, innumberable ways have been devised to maintain the illusion of the continuing presence of one's loved ones. For example, wizarding photographs and portraits move and (in the case of the latter) talk just like their subjects.
Similarly, the Mirror of Erised may also reveal more than a static image of a lost loved one. Ghosts are transparent, moving, talking, and thinking versions of wizards and witches who decided, for whatever reason, to remain on earth. The closest to resurrecting the dead would be the Resurrection Stone, which can recall someone who has died from the beyond, but they will return only in a semi-corporeal form, "less substantial" than a living body but "much more" than a ghost, but which if it ever truly existed has been lost.
- —Bertrand de Pensées-Profondes in A Study into the Possibility of Reversing the Actual and Metaphysical Effects of Natural Death, with Particular Regard to the Reintegration of Essence and Matter'
Despite this, wizards have still not found a way of reuniting body and soul once death has occurred. This subject was covered by eminent Wizarding philosopher Bertrand de Pensées-Profondes in his celebrated work A Study into the Possibility of Reversing the Actual and Metaphysical Effects of Natural Death, with Particular Regard to the Reintergration of Essence and Matter, during which he stated that reversing death would never be physically possible. Phoenixes are the sole exception to the rules of death, as they can be reborn from their ashes without any restraints or assistance.
However, while there exists no known method of reversing death once it has occurred, there are certain things a witch or wizard can do to postpone their death or prolong their life (even further than the longevity which would seem to be granted by magical ability).(Full article...)
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