Notes

• Spell Casting Basics
  • Magical
    ability is typically passed from parent to child. Exceptions to this
    are squibs, non-magical persons with magical parent(s) and Muggle-borns,
    magical persons with non-magical parents. Magic is involuntary, like
    breathing. We use our minds and thought to guide our power out. As you
    learn to draw on the innate power, it will take a less conscious effort
    to cast spells. This is the biggest hurdle to being able to cast complex
    spells later on. Before the Levitation charm, there were earlier
    versions.
• Flight Charms

  • Hover charm-
    The earliest known spell to move something off the ground. The
    witch/wizard must be touching the object. An impractical spell and
    doesn't see much use anymore.

  • Rocket Charm- This charm can only propel objects straight up in the air and down again. Also impractical and heavier object move less.

  • Floating Charm-
    This charm does NOT require physical contact. It allows for controlled
    vertical movement and only several feet in the air. It is useful during
    spring cleaning. No horizontal movement is possible.

  • Levitation Charm-
    The closest we have come to true flight. It allows the object to move
    in all directions and the height of the object is only affected by the
    distance from the object. It does NOT work on humans.  The spell is Wingardium Leviosa, pronounced
    'wing-GAR-dee-um levi-O-sa'. The movement is the swish and flick and
    you must concentrate on the object through out the entire spell to avoid
    levitating anything else.