Lockhart's spells

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 4651

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> Oh, another thing I noticed when going through Chamber again. 
Everyone's
> favorite, ol' most-charming-smile himself, in describing his 
encounter
> with the werewolf, says he subdued it and performed the Homorphus 
Charm,

I finally discovered the origin of the Transmogrifian Torture 
Lockhart bragged about. I had of course spotted the "trans" part from 
Latin, but I couldn't place the rest of it. Blaise, who does this 
sort of thing for a living, tried to help out but couldn't find a 
connection either. But the other day, smack dab in the middle of a 
rehearsal for the play I'm directing right now, it hit me.

It's from Calvin and Hobbes. That cardboard box Calvin uses to 
transform himself (in his imagination) into various creatures and 
later to create a whole bunch of duplicates of himself is called a 
Transmogrifier. 

Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon
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