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- "Today's class will be sure to brighten your day. We'll be learning Lumos Solem, a spell that creates a blinding flash of sunlight! So be sure to have sunglasses at the ready. It's for your own protection. I have prepared a lecture on Lumos Solem. I hope you find it illuminating!"
- — Professor Flitwick to his seventh-year students[src]
The Lumos Solem Spell[3] (Lumos Solem)[1][2] was a charm[2] used to produce a blinding flash of sunlight. As Devil's Snare hated sunlight and heat, this particular light-creation spell was very effective towards subduing it.[1] Wearing sunglasses was advised when practising this spell to protect one's eyes from the blinding light of the spell.[3][2]
History
During the 1990–1991 school year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Professor Filius Flitwick taught his seventh-year students how to cast this charm in Charms class.[2]
This charm was also covered in first-year Herbology classes at Hogwarts, in order to teach students how to basically defend themselves against the Devil's Snare.[3]
Etymology
Derived from two words; the Latin lumen, meaning "light", and the Latin solis, meaning "of the sun", indicating that this spell produces "light of the sun".
See also
Behind the scenes
- "Devil's Snare, Devil's Snare. It's deadly fun... but will sulk in the sun! That's it! Devil's Snare hates sunlight! Lumos Solem!"
- — Hermione Granger on the weakness of Devil's Snare[src]

Hermione Granger using the spell to free Ron Weasley from the Devil's Snare
- Hermione Granger uses this spell to free Ron Weasley from the Devil's Snare in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.[1] The spell is not used in the book, in which she instead frees Harry and Ron with Bluebell Flames.[4]
- In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, this spell, as well as its use against Devil's Snare, is taught in a first-year Herbology class.[3] While the book states that Professor Sprout only discussed Devil's Snare in class but not practically handled it,[4] there is nothing to say that this spell is not taught as part of the first-year Herbology curriculum. A possibility is that it was taught to first-years so that they would be well practised and prepared by the time that they were allowed to handle the Devil's Snare.
Appearances
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) (First appearance) (Non-canonical appearance)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (First identified as Lumos Solem Spell)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
- Harry Potter: The Creature Vault (Mentioned only)
- Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
- Harry Potter: Wizards Unite (Mentioned only)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) - Chapter 27 (Through the Trapdoor)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 7, Chapter 30 (It All Falls Down) - Charms Lesson "Lumos Solem"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 16 (Through the Trapdoor)