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"The Incendio charm has also been utilised for rather more nefarious gain. For example, young wizards and witches have been known to set fire to the trousers of a smaller child to extort sweets or contraband from them. Unless the unfortunate victim knows an extinguishing charm, they may run around for days with the seat of their pants in flames."
— A Hogwarts Library book[src]

The Extinguishing Spell[1] (incantation unknown), also known as the Extinguishing Charm,[2][3] was a charm that put out fires.[1][3]

History[]

Rubeus Hagrid: "Four... so it's one fer each o' the champions, is it? What've they gotta do — fight 'em?"
Charlie Weasley: "Just get past them, I think. We'll be on hand if it gets nasty, Extinguishing Spells at the ready. They wanted nesting mothers, I don't know why... but I tell you this, I don't envy the one who gets the Horntail."
Charlie Weasley on the dragons for the First Task of the Triwizard Tournament[src]

During the 1989–1990 school year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Professor Filius Flitwick taught this charm to sixth-year students in Charms class.[3]

Charles Weasley told Rubeus Hagrid that he and his fellow dragon keepers were prepared to cast Extinguishing Spells should something go wrong during the first task of the Triwizard Tournament.[1]

Known uses[]

Caster(s) Date Notes
Jacob's sibling 1990–1991 school year Used it to extinguish a Mechanical Death Eater that was set alight when Andre Egwu failed to cast Fedora into Fireworks properly.[4]
Jacob's sibling casting the Extinguishing Charm HM7TIO
Marietta Edgecombe (possibly) 1995–1996 school year Marietta may have used this spell nonverbally when Cho Chang accidentally set her sleeve on fire with a badly performed Disarming Charm during a Dumbledore's Army meeting,[5] but this could have been the Water-Making Spell as well.

Known practitioners[]

Appearances[]

Notes and references[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 19 (The Hungarian Horntail)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 6, Chapter 41 (Assemble the Team) - Charms Lesson "Extinguishing Charm"
  4. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 7, Side Quest "Transfigure It Out!"
  5. 5.0 5.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 18 (Dumbledore's Army)
Charms (class)
PS Wingardium Leviosa feather
Charm-book writers and developers
Blagdon Blay · Daisy Pennifold · Delfina Crimp · Miranda Goshawk · Jarleth Hobart · Basil Horton · Helixa Hyslop · Syna Hyslop · Randolph Keitch · Levina Monkstanley · Orabella Nuttley · Mnemone Radford · Scarpin · Elliot Smethwyck · Felix Summerbee · Violeta Stitch
Professors Fortinbras · Filius Flitwick · Abraham Ronen · Unidentified male professor · Unidentified medieval professor
Textbooks Achievements in Charming · Extreme Incantations · Quintessence: A Quest · The Standard Book of Spells
Charms studied at Hogwarts
Anti-Alohomora Charm · Ascension Charm (Ascendio) · Banishing Charm (Depulso) · Blackboard Writing Spell · Blue sparks · Bombardment Spell (Bombarda) · Box Blasting Charm (Cistem Aperio) · Bubble-Head Charm · Cheering Charm · Cleaning Charm · Colour Change Charm (Colovaria) · Confundus Charm (Confundo) · Counter-charm for hiccoughs · Dancing Feet Spell (Tarantallegra) · Descendo · Disarming Charm (Expelliarmus) · Disillusionment Charm · Drought Charm · Entrancing Enchantments (theoretically) · Eradication Spell (Deletrius) · Engorgement Charm (Engorgio) · Extinguishing Spell · Fire-Making Spell (Incendio) · Freezing Charm (Immobulus) · Freezing Spell (Glacius) · Full Body-Bind Curse (Petrificus Totalus) · General Counter-Spell (Finite Incantatem) · Gouging Spell (Defodio) · Growth Charm · Ice Jinx · Impervius Charm (Impervius) · Knitting Charm · Knockback Jinx (Flipendo) · Leg-Locker Curse (Locomotor Mortis) · Levitation Charm (Wingardium Leviosa) · Locking Spell (Colloportus) · Locomotion Charm (Locomotor) · Lumos Solem Spell (Lumos Solem) · Mending Charm (Reparo) · Memory Charm (Obliviate) · Muffliato Charm (Muffliato) · Nonverbal spells · Pack Charm (Pack) · Red Sparks (Vermillious) · Reductor Curse (Reducto) · Scouring Charm (Scourgify) · Seize and pull charm (Carpe Retractum) · Severing Charm (Diffindo) · Shrinking Charm (Reducio) · Silencing Charm (Silencio) · Slowing Charm (Arresto Momentum) · Skurge Charm (Skurge) · Softening Charm (Spongify) · Spell for growing legs · Substantive Charm · Summoning Charm (Accio) · Tickling Charm (Rictusempra) · Unlocking Charm (Alohomora) · Vinegar to wine spell · Wand-Extinguishing Charm (Nox) · Wand-Lighting Charm (Lumos) · Lumos Maxima · Water-Making Spell (Aguamenti)

See also[]

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