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- "The jinx is used to make a person trip and fall over."
- — Description[src]
The Trip Jinx (incantation unknown) was a jinx used to make people trip and fall over.[1]
History[]
- "Something caught him around the ankles and he fell spectacularly, skidding along on his front for six feet before coming to a halt. Someone behind him was laughing."
- — Draco Malfoy assaulting Harry Potter with this jinx in 1996[src]
During the 1988–1989 school year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, this jinx was taught to fifth-year Defence Against the Dark Arts students by the then DADA Professor Patricia Rakepick, in order to teach her students something useful and simple, considering how little they had learnt with previous teachers.[5]
This jinx was used by Draco Malfoy in 1996 on Harry Potter, while the Inquisitorial Squad captured members of Dumbledore's Army fleeing from the Room of Requirement. As the group had been informed by Dobby that Professor Umbridge had found out about Dumbledore's Army, the members fled, and most of them escaped, but Harry Potter was captured with the use of this spell.[4]
Bellatrix Lestrange used this jinx on Fenrir Greyback to make him fall to his knees in Malfoy Manor.[6]
Known practitioners[]
Behind the scenes[]
- In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, it can be bought at Wiseacre's Wizarding Equipment in Diagon Alley.[2] In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7, it can be brought in Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes.[3]
- In the film adaptation of the skirmish at Malfoy Manor, Bellatrix instead blasted a Snatcher, not Greyback across the room with a nonverbal spell, while instead conjuring a snake around Greyback's neck to briefly strangle him before it vanished when she stopped attacking.
Appearances[]
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
- Pottermore (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
- Hogwarts Legacy (Mentioned only)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Pottermore
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 27 (The Centaur and the Sneak)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 13 (Rats and Dogs) - Defence Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Trip Jinx"
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1