The Complete Guide To Defense Against The Dark Arts
written by Alex Potter
Some spells are hidden, a lot are known. This book is the key to the magical world of spells. This book might cause you to never stop reading it, but I have warned you: So think twice before encountering the secrets. Please, don't complain if it's short, I will be adding more. Bye!
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Curses
Chapter 18
Curses is classified as the Darkest types of Dark spell; curses are, by nature, designed to cause extreme amounts of pain and can even lead to death. That said, recent studies have broken this classification into two separate categories, since some of the spells that are classified as curses are there because they are too Dark to be a hex, but really aren’t quite Dark enough to be a full-fledged curse. Therefore, the Ministry has created two classifications of curses: the Minor Maledictio and the Tenebrae Maledictio.
The Minor Maledictio is the lower classification of curses. These curses are considered too dark to be hexes, but really do not cause enough pain to warrant the typical extreme measure that comes with a curse. In Latin, Minor Maledictio translates literally to “minor curse,” which sets the tone for the types of curses that fall under this category. In this course, we will be learning spells that, most often, fall in this category of curse.
On the other side, we have the Tenebrae Maledictio, which translates from Latin to mean “Dark curse”. I would hope this would need no explanation, but these curses are designed to hurt - these curses require the most skill to cast because you have to truly want them to work. It is under the Tenebrae Maledictio that curses such as The Conjunctivitis Curse, the curse that we know Antonin Dolohov cast on Hermione Granger in the Department of Mysteries, and the Unforgivable Curses fall. None of these spells will be covered in-depth until your Fifth Year here at Hogwarts, when you will begin preparing for your O.W.L. exams. Until then, it is sufficient that you know simply that both classifications exist.
The Minor Maledictio is the lower classification of curses. These curses are considered too dark to be hexes, but really do not cause enough pain to warrant the typical extreme measure that comes with a curse. In Latin, Minor Maledictio translates literally to “minor curse,” which sets the tone for the types of curses that fall under this category. In this course, we will be learning spells that, most often, fall in this category of curse.
On the other side, we have the Tenebrae Maledictio, which translates from Latin to mean “Dark curse”. I would hope this would need no explanation, but these curses are designed to hurt - these curses require the most skill to cast because you have to truly want them to work. It is under the Tenebrae Maledictio that curses such as The Conjunctivitis Curse, the curse that we know Antonin Dolohov cast on Hermione Granger in the Department of Mysteries, and the Unforgivable Curses fall. None of these spells will be covered in-depth until your Fifth Year here at Hogwarts, when you will begin preparing for your O.W.L. exams. Until then, it is sufficient that you know simply that both classifications exist.
