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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".
Behind the scenes[]
- The Skurge Charm, which is used to clean up Ectoplasm, may be a variant of this spell.
- In Wonderbook: Book of Spells, the hand gesture is "a smooth, sinuous motion, like a letter 'S".
- The Scholastic Official Site lists this as the Vanishing Spell.
- In Spanish, this spell is known as "Fregotego".
- In Hebrew, this spell is known as "התקרצף" ("Hit-kar-tzef"), which means "scrub yourself".
Appearances[]
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Mentioned only)
- Pottermore (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter (website) (Mentioned only)
- Fantastic Beasts: Cases from the Wizarding World
- Wonderbook: Book of Spells
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
- Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells (Mentioned only)
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Harry Potter: Magic Awakened (Mentioned only)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Wonderbook: Book of Spells
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 28 (Snape's Worst Memory)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 4, Chapter 10 (Seeing Red) - Charms Lesson "Scourgify"
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 4, Chapter 15 (Dark Secrets)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 14 (The Unforgivable Curses)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 3 (The Advance Guard)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 10 (Luna Lovegood)
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts: Cases from the Wizarding World