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"She pointed her wand at Hedwig's cage. 'Scourgify.' A few feathers and droppings vanished."
— Nymphadora Tonks's using this charm to clean Hedwig's cage[src]

The Scouring Charm (Scourgify) was a cleaning charm used for washing things.[1] It could also be used to clean out smaller infestations of bundimun.[2] This spell was listed in the third chapter of Book of Spells by Miranda Goshawk.[1] Many wizarding families used this spell, both for cleaning and punishing people who swore, as the spell caused human mouths to be filled with soap.[1]

History[]

James Potter used this charm to bully Severus Snape on the Hogwarts grounds, causing soap to fill his mouth.[3]

In the 1987–1988 school year, this charm was taught to the fourth-years in Charms class by Professor Filius Flitwick.[4] Jacob's sibling later used the Scouring Charm to clean up Bundimun Secretion in Rubeus Hagrid's hut.[5]

Hermione Granger taught Neville Longbottom the Scouring Charm to clean frog guts out from under his fingernails, in their fourth year.[6]

The Scouring Charm was used by Nymphadora Tonks when attempting to clean Hedwig's cage during their liberation of Harry Potter from 4 Privet Drive in 1995. The spell had only a minimal effect and Tonks admitted that she had never quite gotten the hang of "household-y" spells of this type.[7] It was later used by Ginevra Weasley on 1 September that year on the Hogwarts Express to clear Stinksap that had squirted from Neville's Mimbulus mimbletonia.[8]

Known practitioners[]

Etymology[]

Perhaps related to English scour, "clean". -ify is a common English suffix meaning "to make ...". Therefore scourgify likely means "to make clean".

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Notes and references[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Wonderbook: Book of Spells
  2. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
  3. 3.0 3.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 28 (Snape's Worst Memory)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 4, Chapter 10 (Seeing Red) - Charms Lesson "Scourgify"
  5. 5.0 5.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 4, Chapter 15 (Dark Secrets)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 14 (The Unforgivable Curses)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 3 (The Advance Guard)
  8. 8.0 8.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 10 (Luna Lovegood)
  9. Fantastic Beasts: Cases from the Wizarding World
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)
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