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}}{{Quote|Thin cords shot from [[Remus Lupin's wand|Lupin's wand]] this time, and next moment, [[Peter Pettigrew|Pettigrew]] was wriggling on the floor, bound and gagged.|Description|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban}}
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{{Quote|Thin cords shot from [[Remus Lupin's wand|Lupin's wand]] this time, and next moment, [[Peter Pettigrew|Pettigrew]] was wriggling on the floor, bound and gagged.|Description|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban}}
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The '''Incarcerous Spell'''<ref>{{LEGO|Y1}}</ref> (''Incarcerous'') is a spell that [[Conjuration|conjure]]s thick ropes or thin cords from "thin air", that are used to bind the person or creature the caster is pointing his or her wand at.<ref name="OP33" /> This spell is also a form of [[Conjuration]].
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The '''Incarcerous Spell'''<ref name="LEGOY1">{{LEGO|Y1}}</ref> (''Incarcerous'') is a [[spell]] that [[Conjuration|conjures]] thick ropes or thin cords from "thin air", that binds whatever the [[Wizardkind|caster]] is pointing their [[wand]] at.<ref name="OP33" />
   
 
==Nature==
  
==Nature==
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Since this spell is [[Conjuration]] an advanced form and branch of [[Transfiguration]], it's therefore some of the most complex magic taught at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]] and is a [[Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test|N.E.W.T.]]-level feat, since most conjuration spells are only taught at N.E.W.T.-level.
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Since this spell is [[Conjuration]] an advanced form and branch of [[Transfiguration]], it is therefore some of the most complex [[magic]] taught at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]] and is a [[Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test|N.E.W.T.]]-level feat, since most [[Conjuring Spells]] are only taught at N.E.W.T.-level.
   
 
==Known uses==
  
==Known uses==
 
{{Quote| ''Incarcerous!''" A few of them stumbled, one or two of them bound in ropes, but those climbing onto the rock behind them merely stepped over or on the fallen bodies.|[[Harry Potter]] conjures ropes against attacking [[Inferius|Inferi]] |Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince}}
  
{{Quote| ''Incarcerous!''" A few of them stumbled, one or two of them bound in ropes, but those climbing onto the rock behind them merely stepped over or on the fallen bodies.|[[Harry Potter]] conjures ropes against attacking [[Inferius|Inferi]] |Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince}}
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|[[Jacob's sibling]]
  
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|[[Merula Snyde]]
 
|[[1988]]
  
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|Jacob's sibling used this spell on [[Merula Snyde]] after learning the spell from [[Patricia Rakepick]]
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|Jacob's sibling used this spell on [[Merula Snyde]] after learning the spell from [[Patricia Rakepick]].<ref name="HM">{{HM}}</ref>
 
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|[[Quirinus Quirrell]]
  
|[[Quirinus Quirrell]]
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|[[Harry Potter]]
 
|[[4 June]], [[1992]]
  
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|Quirrell used this spell non-verbally on Harry Potter, during the [[Attack in the Underground Chambers]].<ref name="PS17">{{PS|B|17}}</ref>
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|Used it [[Nonverbal spell|nonverbally]] and [[Wandless magic|wandlessly]] to bind and gag Harry, during the [[Skirmish in the Underground Chambers|Attack in the Underground Chambers]].<ref name="PS17">{{PS|B|17}}</ref>
 
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| colspan="1" rowspan="2" |[[Severus Snape|Severus]] [[Severus Snape|Snape]]
  
| colspan="1" rowspan="2" |[[Severus Snape|Severus]] [[Severus Snape|Snape]]
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|[[Remus Lupin]]
 
| colspan="1" rowspan="3" |[[6 June]], [[1994]]
  
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|Snape [[Nonverbal magic|non-verbally]] conjured ropes to bind and gag Remus Lupin while in the [[Shrieking Shack]].<ref name="PA19">{{POA|B|19}}</ref>
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|Used it nonverbally to bind and gag Remus in the [[Shrieking Shack]].<ref name="PA19">{{POA|B|19}}</ref>
 
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|[[Sirius Black]]
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|Snape uses this spell on [[Sirius Black]] when he finds him unconscious next to [[Hermione Granger]] and [[Harry Potter]] under the influence of [[Dementor]].<ref name="PA19" />
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|Used it nonverbally to when he found him unconscious next to [[Hermione Granger]] and [[Harry Potter]] under the influence of [[Dementor]].<ref name="PA19" />
 
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|[[Remus Lupin]]
  
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|Lupin in [[1994]] used this spell to bind and gag Peter Pettigrew in the Shrieking Shack, after forcing him out of his Animagus form.<ref name="PA19" />
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|Used it nonverbally in the Shrieking Shack, after forcing him out of his [[Animagus]] form.<ref name="PA19" />
 
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|[[Peter Pettigrew]]
  
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| colspan="1" rowspan="2" |[[24 June]], [[1995]]
  
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|Pettigrew conjured ropes to bind Harry Potter to [[Tom Riddle Senior|Tom Riddle Snr]]'s gravestone in 1995.<ref name="GOF">{{GOF}}</ref>
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|Used it nonverbally to bind and gag Harry Potter to [[Tom Riddle Senior|Tom Riddle Snr]]'s gravestone.<ref name="GOF31">{{GOF|B|31}}</ref>
 
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|[[Albus Dumbledore]]
  
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|Dumbledore likely cast this spell on [[Bartemius Crouch Junior]] after he revealed that he escaped from [[Azkaban]] and helped [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]] to capture [[Harry Potter]].<ref>{{GOF|B|36}} - "Then he raised his wand once more and ropes flew out of it, ropes that twisted themselves around Barty Crouch, binding him tightly."</ref>
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|Used it nonverbally after Crouch's [[polyjuice potion]] with [[Alastor Moody]]'s hair stopped working and he revealed by [[Veritaserum]] that he escaped from [[Azkaban]] and helped [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]] to capture [[Harry Potter]].<ref name="GOF36">{{GOF|B|36}} - "Then he raised his wand once more and ropes flew out of it, ropes that twisted themselves around Barty Crouch, binding him tightly."</ref>
 
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|[[Dolores Umbridge]]
  
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|[[Magorian]]
 
|[[18 June|18 June,]] [[1996]]
  
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|Umbridge conjured ropes to strangle a [[centaur]] named [[Magorian]], during the [[Skirmish in the Forbidden Forest]].<ref name="OP33" />
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|Used it to strangle a [[centaur]] [[Magorian]], during the [[Skirmish in the Forbidden Forest]].<ref name="OP33" />
 
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| colspan="1" rowspan="2" |[[30 June]], [[1997]]
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|Harry conjured ropes which bound an [[Inferius]] in the [[The Cave|Horcrux Cave]] in 1997, before the Battle of the Astronomy Tower
  
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|Used it to bind and gag one of them in the [[The Cave|Horcrux Cave]].<ref name="HBP26">{{HBP|B|26}}</ref>
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|Harry used this spell again to conjure ropes in a failed attempt to stop Severus Snape fleeing from [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]], during the [[Battle of the Astronomy Tower]].
  
 
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|[[Antonin Dolohov]]
  
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|[[1 August]], [[1997]]
  
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|Dolohov used this spell during the [[Luchino Caffe Duel]] against [[Ronald Weasley|Ron Weasley]] in 1997.<ref name="DH9">{{DH|B|9}}</ref>
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|Used nonverbally during the [[Luchino Caffe Duel]].<ref name="DH9">{{DH|B|9}}</ref>
 
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|[[Draco Malfoy]]
  
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|[[Harry Potter]]
 
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|Draco used this spell while duelling Harry Potter.<ref>{{CC|B|2|13}}</ref>
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|Draco used this spell while duelling Harry Potter.<ref name="CC">{{CC|B|2|13}}</ref>
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|[[Jacturus Cloke III]]
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|Cloke attacked the [[Non-magic people|Muggle]] Megan Scott with this spell in an [[Upper Flagley]] graveyard.<ref name="FBC91">{{FBC|9|1}}</ref>
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|Used it in an failed attempt to restrain Severus Snape to stop him from fleeing from [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]] during the [[Battle of the Astronomy Tower]] after the murder of Albus Dumbledore.<ref name="HBP28">{{HBP|B|28}}</ref>
 
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==Known practitioners==
  
==Known practitioners==
 
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*"''Incarcerus''" is also the Danish translation of "''Incarcerous''".
  
*"''Incarcerus''" is also the Danish translation of "''Incarcerous''".
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*An etymologically and functionally related spell is ''[[Incarcifors]]'', which transforms objects into prisons to restrict a person's movement.
  
*An etymologically and functionally related spell is ''[[Incarcifors]]'', which transforms objects into prisons to restrict a person's movement.
 
*Based on conjecture, it is likely that ''[[Revulsion Jinx|Relashio]]'' or ''[[Emancipare]]'' could act as counter-spells to ''Incarcerous''. The Revulsion Jinx would be able to release a person from the binding ropes of ''Incarcerous'', while the incantation for ''Emancipare'' is derived from Latin for "set free", suggesting its ability to release a person from any form of incarceration.
  
*Based on conjecture, it is likely that ''[[Revulsion Jinx|Relashio]]'' or ''[[Emancipare]]'' could act as counter-spells to ''Incarcerous''. The Revulsion Jinx would be able to release a person from the binding ropes of ''Incarcerous'', while the incantation for ''Emancipare'' is derived from Latin for "set free", suggesting its ability to release a person from any form of incarceration.
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*In {{DH}}, [[Minerva McGonagall]] uses a [[Silver rope conjuring spell|spell to conjure a silver rope]] to tie [[Alecto and Amycus Carrow]] up to the ceiling,<ref name="DH30">{{DH|B|30}}</ref> which could be Incarcerous or a possibly a variation of it.
 
*Based on the text files from the PC version of {{LEGO|Y1}}, ''Incarcerous'' may have been intended to have a different effect from how it acts in the final game. In the released version of the game, ''Incarcerous'' is one of the "joke spells" used only to temporarily incapacitate minifigures. The text files of the game, however, call it "the Indy whip tie" [sic], presumably meaning the spell was originally meant to act similarly to [[w:c:indianajones:Indiana Jones|Indiana Jones]]'s whip from the ''[[w:c:lego:Indiana Jones|LEGO Indiana Jones]]'' games.<ref>[http://tcrf.net/LEGO_Harry_Potter:_Years_1-4_(Windows) ''LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4'' (Windows)] on [http://tcrf.net/The_Cutting_Room_Floor The Cutting Room Floor]</ref>
  
*Based on the text files from the PC version of {{LEGO|Y1}}, ''Incarcerous'' may have been intended to have a different effect from how it acts in the final game. In the released version of the game, ''Incarcerous'' is one of the "joke spells" used only to temporarily incapacitate minifigures. The text files of the game, however, call it "the Indy whip tie" [sic], presumably meaning the spell was originally meant to act similarly to [[w:c:indianajones:Indiana Jones|Indiana Jones]]'s whip from the ''[[w:c:lego:Indiana Jones|LEGO Indiana Jones]]'' games.<ref>[http://tcrf.net/LEGO_Harry_Potter:_Years_1-4_(Windows) ''LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4'' (Windows)] on [http://tcrf.net/The_Cutting_Room_Floor The Cutting Room Floor]</ref>
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"Thin cords shot from Lupin's wand this time, and next moment, Pettigrew was wriggling on the floor, bound and gagged."
— Description[src]

The Incarcerous Spell[2] (Incarcerous) is a spell that conjures thick ropes or thin cords from "thin air", that binds whatever the caster is pointing their wand at.[1]

Nature

Since this spell is Conjuration an advanced form and branch of Transfiguration, it is therefore some of the most complex magic taught at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and is a N.E.W.T.-level feat, since most Conjuring Spells are only taught at N.E.W.T.-level.

Known uses

" Incarcerous!" A few of them stumbled, one or two of them bound in ropes, but those climbing onto the rock behind them merely stepped over or on the fallen bodies."
— Harry Potter conjures ropes against attacking Inferi [src]

Successful

Caster(s) Date Notes
Jacob's sibling Merula Snyde 1988 Jacob's sibling used this spell on Merula Snyde after learning the spell from Patricia Rakepick.[3]
Quirinus Quirrell Harry Potter 4 June, 1992 Used it nonverbally and wandlessly to bind and gag Harry, during the Attack in the Underground Chambers.[4]
Severus Snape Remus Lupin 6 June, 1994 Used it nonverbally to bind and gag Remus in the Shrieking Shack.[5]
Sirius Black Used it nonverbally to when he found him unconscious next to Hermione Granger and Harry Potter under the influence of Dementor.[5]
Remus Lupin Peter Pettigrew Used it nonverbally in the Shrieking Shack, after forcing him out of his Animagus form.[5]
Peter Pettigrew Harry Potter 24 June, 1995 Used it nonverbally to bind and gag Harry Potter to Tom Riddle Snr's gravestone.[6]
Albus Dumbledore Bartemius Crouch Jr Used it nonverbally after Crouch's polyjuice potion with Alastor Moody's hair stopped working and he revealed by Veritaserum that he escaped from Azkaban and helped Lord Voldemort to capture Harry Potter.[7]
Dolores Umbridge Magorian 18 June, 1996 Used it to strangle a centaur Magorian, during the Skirmish in the Forbidden Forest.[1]
Harry Potter Inferi 30 June, 1997 Used it to bind and gag one of them in the Horcrux Cave.[8]
Antonin Dolohov Ron Weasley 1 August, 1997 Used nonverbally during the Luchino Caffe Duel.[9]
Draco Malfoy Harry Potter September, 2020 Draco used this spell while duelling Harry Potter.[10]
Jacturus Cloke III Megan Scott 21st century Cloke attacked the Muggle Megan Scott with this spell in an Upper Flagley graveyard.[11]

Unsuccessful

Caster(s) Date Notes
Harry Potter Severus Snape 30 June, 1997 Used it in an failed attempt to restrain Severus Snape to stop him from fleeing from Hogwarts during the Battle of the Astronomy Tower after the murder of Albus Dumbledore.[12]

Known practitioners

Etymology

The incantation "incarcerous" most likely derives from the Latin word "incarcerus", meaning "to jail" or "to imprison".

  • "Incarcerus" is also the Danish translation of "Incarcerous".

See also

Behind the scenes

  • In the books, the ropes simply wrap themselves around the centaur's arms and chest; in the film, they also encase his throat, slowly strangling and crushing him while forcing him to the ground. The ropes were animate and therefore could move and constrict their victims similarly to a constrictor snake.
  • In the film adaption of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, a Snatcher is seen casting this spell on Ron Weasley who is bound in chains, of course it could have been a similar spell such as "Incarcereta" (which was used in an early script of the Half Blood Prince film when Harry attacked Snape for killing Dumbledore) but it seems most likely that it was Incarcerous.
  • Also in the film adaption of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, while fighting their way down to the boathouse, Harry is seen casting this spell where a great flash of orange light escapes his wand and a Death Eater that was trying to lunge at him was instantly bound in chains, again it is unclear if this was Incarcerous or a different capturing-type spell.
  • An etymologically and functionally related spell is Incarcifors, which transforms objects into prisons to restrict a person's movement.
  • Based on conjecture, it is likely that Relashio or Emancipare could act as counter-spells to Incarcerous. The Revulsion Jinx would be able to release a person from the binding ropes of Incarcerous, while the incantation for Emancipare is derived from Latin for "set free", suggesting its ability to release a person from any form of incarceration.
  • In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Minerva McGonagall uses a spell to conjure a silver rope to tie Alecto and Amycus Carrow up to the ceiling,[13] which could be Incarcerous or a possibly a variation of it.
  • Based on the text files from the PC version of LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, Incarcerous may have been intended to have a different effect from how it acts in the final game. In the released version of the game, Incarcerous is one of the "joke spells" used only to temporarily incapacitate minifigures. The text files of the game, however, call it "the Indy whip tie" [sic], presumably meaning the spell was originally meant to act similarly to Indiana Jones's whip from the LEGO Indiana Jones games.[14]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 33 (Fight and Flight)
  2. ↑ LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 17 (The Man with Two Faces)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 19 (The Servant of Lord Voldemort)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 31 (The Third Task)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 36 (The Parting of the Ways) - "Then he raised his wand once more and ropes flew out of it, ropes that twisted themselves around Barty Crouch, binding him tightly."
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 26 (The Cave)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 9 (A Place to Hide)
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Act Two, Scene Thirteen
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Fantastic Beasts: Cases from the Wizarding World, Case 9: Cloke and Dagger, Act 1
  12. ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 28 (Flight of the Prince)
  13. ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 30 (The Sacking of Severus Snape)
  14. ↑ LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (Windows) on The Cutting Room Floor
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