Spell creation

Herpo the Foul

• Many vile curses
• Horcrux-making spell

Curses described as 'vile'. Created in Ancient Greece. Also the first person to successfully create a Horcrux.^[2][3]

Merwyn the Malicious

Many jinxes and hexes

Spells described as 'unpleasant'; Created in the Middle Ages.^[2][3]

Delfina Crimp

Severing Charm

Delfina Crimp was a London clothier in the 15th century; she invented the Severing Charm to help her to accurately cut fabric.^[4]

Felix Summerbee

Cheering Charm

Invented between 1447 and 1508.^[2][3]

Jarleth Hobart

Levitation Charm

Invented in 1544, first used on self to ill effect.^[4]

Mnemone Radford

Memory-Modifying Charms

Created between 1562 and 1649.^[5]

Ancient African sorcerer

Unlocking Charm

Taught to Eldon Elsrickle, who used it to rob the houses of London, in the early 1600s.^[4]

Urquhart Rackharrow

Entrail-Expelling Curse

Invented between 1612 - 1697.^[6]

Slowing Charm

Shortly after the change in colour of the Quaffle in spring of 1711, Daisy Pennifold had the idea to enchant the Quaffle so Chasers wouldn't have to dive for it; rather, it would fall slowly and they could catch it in mid-air.^[7]

Orabella Nuttley

Mending Charm

First used in 1754 after a riot after a broom race left the Coliseum in ruins.^[4]

Levina Monkstanley

Wand-Lighting Charm

First used to illuminate a corner in which she had dropped a quill in the Department of Mysteries; Invented in 1772.^[4]

Elliot Smethwyck

Cushioning Charm

Used to make broomsticks more comfortable, in 1820.^[8]

Basil Horton
Randolph Keitch

Horton-Keitch Braking Charm

Invented (c. 1929) with his partner Randolph Keitch.^[8]

Miranda Goshawk

Bat-Bogey Hex

Invented c. 1930s. As the youngest child in a large family, Miranda Goshawk often found it difficult to make herself heard, and developed this hex to give her sisters a piece of her mind: she cast it on her sister Diadema, so that she returned clothes she borrowed without permission; on her sister Romilda to keep her out of her room; on her sister Tangwystl when she wanted to keep her quiet so she could finish her homework.^[4]

Albus Dumbledore

• Communication using Patronus Charms
• The Deluminator

Utilised during the Second Wizarding War. Invented by Albus Dumbledore using his own original designs.

Tom Riddle

• Morsmordre
• Unsupported flight
• Curse on Marvolo Gaunt's ring

Used as the sign of the Death Eaters. Created during, or shortly prior to, the First Wizarding War.^[9]

Severus Snape

• Langlock
• Muffliato Charm
• Sectumsempra
• Levicorpus
• Liberacorpus
• Toenail-growing hex
• Vulnera Sanentur

All spells recorded in his copy of Advanced Potion Making were also crafted by him. Created between 1976 and 1978.^[10][11][12]

Holographic spell

Invented this vainglorious spell, sometime between 1975 and 1982, during his time as a Ravenclaw student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, to shoot a glowing, holographic image of his own face into the sky, similar to the Dark Mark.^[13]

Badeea Ali and Jacob's sibling

Star Shower Spell

Created the Star Shower Spell with help from Charlie Weasley and Severus Snape in the 1988–1989 school year.^[14]

Fred and George Weasley

Patented Daydream Charms

Invented between 1994 - 1995.^[15]

William Weasley

Modified Cursed Barrier

Invented a modified version of the Cursed barrier, which prevented any Death Eaters bearing the Dark Mark from entering a vicinity.^[14]