Hot Air Charm

Hot Air Charm
Type	Charm
Hand movement
Light	None
Effect	Jet of hot air

"She pulled out her wand and gave it a complicated little wave so that hot air streamed out of the tip; she then pointed this at her robes, which began to steam as they dried out."

— Description

The Hot Air Charm (incantation unknown) was a charm that streamed hot air out of the caster's wand. This air in turn could quickly dry off soaked garments.

Known uses

Caster(s)	Date	Notes
Newt Scamander	September, 1927	Used it to dry Jacob Kowalski’s rain soaked clothes.
Hermione Granger	November, 1995	Used it to melt snow and dry off her snow-covered robes.
Filius Flitwick	Early 1997	Used it to dry off his clothes, after Seamus Finnigan soaked them with a badly aimed Water-Making Spell during Charms class.
Albus Dumbledore	30 June, 1997	Used it to dry his wet robes after swimming to the Horcrux cave.
		Used it to dry Harry Potter's wet robes as well, but the spell he cast instantaneously made the robes warm and dry and didn't involve any wasted wand motion.

Known practitioners

Newton Scamander

Filius Flitwick

Albus Dumbledore

Hermione Granger

See also

• Windy Spell

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (First appearance)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
• Wizarding World (Mentioned only)
• Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (First identified as Hot Air Charm)