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|type=[[Counter-curse]]
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|type = [[Counter-curse]]
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|effect=Breaks [[hex]]es
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}}A '''Hex-Breaker''' {{Incantation unknown}} was a [[Counter-curse]] used to break the effects of a [[hex]]. The left-handed Hex-Breaker required a complex sequence of six steps, finishing with standing on one's head and casting the spell while holding the wand with one's feet.<ref name="23props">[http://www.ew.com/ew/special/0,,20431232_20504892,00.html "'''Harry Potter': 23 Astounding Props''"] on [http://www.ew.com/ew/ Entertainment Weekly.com] (see [[:File:Dark Arts Defence open.png|this image]])</ref>
 
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A '''Hex-Breaker''' {{Incantation unknown}} was a [[Counter-curse]] used to break the effects of a [[hex]]. The left-handed Hex-Breaker required a complex sequence of six steps, finishing with standing on one's head and casting the spell while holding the wand with one's feet.<ref name="23props">[http://www.ew.com/ew/special/0,,20431232_20504892,00.html "'''Harry Potter': 23 Astounding Props''"] on [http://www.ew.com/ew/ Entertainment Weekly.com] (see [[:File:Dark Arts Defence open.png|this image]])</ref>
   
 
Page 68b of ''[[Dark Arts Defence: Basics for Beginners]]'' included step-by-step illustrations on how to cast this spell.
 
Page 68b of ''[[Dark Arts Defence: Basics for Beginners]]'' included step-by-step illustrations on how to cast this spell.

Revision as of 21:33, 9 August 2020

A Hex-Breaker (incantation unknown) was a Counter-curse used to break the effects of a hex. The left-handed Hex-Breaker required a complex sequence of six steps, finishing with standing on one's head and casting the spell while holding the wand with one's feet.[1]

Page 68b of Dark Arts Defence: Basics for Beginners included step-by-step illustrations on how to cast this spell.

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Notes and references

Defence Against the Dark Arts (D.A.D.A.)
Subjectsdada
D.A.D.A. at Hogwarts
Classroom 3C · Classroom 3C backrooms · Temporary Classroom · Hogwarts Turris Magnus · Teacher's Office · Storeroom · Staircase · Storage room · Lesson Cup · Race Cup · Duelling Club · Dumbledore's Army
Professors
Isidora Morganach · Dinah Hecat · Arsenius Jigger · Albus Dumbledore · Galatea Merrythought · 1984–1985 professor · 1985–1986 professor · 1986–1987 professor · 1987–1988 professor · Patricia Rakepick · 1989–1990 professor · First 1990–1991 professor · Olivia Green · Quirinus Quirrell · Gilderoy Lockhart · Remus Lupin · Bartemius Crouch Junior (as Alastor Moody) · Dolores Umbridge · Severus Snape · Amycus Carrow (as Dark Arts teacher) · Unidentified professor · Brindlemore
Textbooks
The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection · Advanced Defence Against the Dark Arts · Break with a Banshee · Gadding with Ghouls · Holidays with Hags · Travels with Trolls · Voyages with Vampires · Wanderings with Werewolves · Year with the Yeti · The Essential Defence Against the Dark Arts · Defensive Magical Theory · Dark Arts Defence – Basics for Beginners · Confronting the Faceless · Defence Against the Dark Arts
Spells studied at Hogwarts under D.A.D.A.
Aqua Eructo · Boggart-Banishing Spell (Riddikulus) · Bombarda Maxima · Cave inimicum · Concealment Charms · Counter-curses · Counter-jinxes · Cruciatus Curse (Crucio) · Curse of the Bogies (Mucus ad Nauseam) · Cursed barrier spell · Densaugeo · Deprimo Spell (Deprimo) · Disarming Charm (Expelliarmus) · Ear-Shrivelling Curse · Everte Statum · Freezing Spell (Glacius) · Full Body-Bind Curse (Petrificus Totalus) · Fumos Duo · Green Sparks · Hex-Breaker· Hex-deflection · Hex Zapper · Homorphus Charm · Human-presence-revealing Spell (Homenum Revelio) · Impediment Jinx (Impedimenta) · Imperius Curse (Imperio) · Imperturbable Charm · Killing Curse (Avada Kedavra) · Knockback Jinx (Flipendo) · Lacarnum Inflamari · Langlock · Levitation Spell (Levioso) · Limbo Mist anticharm · Nonverbal spells · Patronus Charm (Expecto Patronum) · Pimple Jinx (Furnunculus) · Protective enchantments · Red Sparks (Vermillious) · Reductor Curse (Reducto) · Salvio hexia · Sea Urchin Jinx · Seize and pull charm (Carpe Retractum) · Shield Charm (Protego) · Smokescreen Spell (Fumos) · Snake-Vanishing Spell (Vipera Evanesca) · Softening Charm (Spongify) · Stretching Jinx · Tickling Charm (Rictusempra) · Tongue-Tying Curse (Mimblewimble) · Trip Jinx · Twitchy-Ears Hex · Verdimillious Charm (Verdimillious) · Verdimillious Duo Spell (Verdimillious) · Verdimillious Tria · Vermillious Duo · Vermillious Tria · Wand-Lighting Charm (Lumos)
Creatures studied at Hogwarts under D.A.D.A.
Banshee · Boggart · Chameleon Ghoul · Charmed skeleton · Cornish Pixie · Dementor · Dugbog · Erkling · Flesh-Eating Slug · Ghost · Ghoul · Gnome · Grindylow · Gytrash · Hag · Hinkypunk · Iguana · Imp · Inferius · Kappa · Manticore · Nocturnal beasts · Nogtail · Poltergeist · Red Cap · Snake · Troll · Vampire · Vampire bat · Werewolf · Yeti · Zombie