DIY Spell making

[saraquel_omphale]

No: HPFGUIDX 141223

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Hagrid" <aussie_lol at y...> wrote:
> How do wizards and witches make a new spell? 
> 
> I was of the opinion spells were something supernatural that existed 
> in nature and just needed to be DISCOVERED and tapped into.
> 
> Now I am thinking a devious mind can come up with a new creative (or 
> destructive) spell like a hacker comes up with new viruses or 
trojans.
> 
> Or are spells more like coming up with recipes ... a pinch of that 
> spell, a touch of that and .. ooh, what happens if I bring this in.
> 
> Do It Yourself (DIY) Spells ... I wonder who will show a flare for 
it 
> in the trio. - Or have the twins been doing it all along?
> -aussie-

Saraquel:
I've puzzled about this one too.  I found it quite strange that Harry 
could use the sectumsempra spell without beforehand, knowing what it 
did.  This would imply that the incantation itself somehow contains 
the magic, but that would be refuted by the comments that Crouch!moody 
makes in GoF about the AK curse, where just saying it is not enough. 
The only way I've explained it to myself is that Harry was feeling the 
appropriate feeling for the spell when he said it, so that it worked 
by accident, so to speak.  I must admit that I found the sectumsempra 
episode quite unbelievable because of this.

A spell seems to me to be a manifestation of the relationship between 
desire/intention, feelings and sound.  There is a lot of stuff in 
history and in some cultures to the present, about names, and how they 
hold the essence of the object named.  I sort of imagined that you 
would think of what you wanted to do, and then try and home in on the 
specific feeling required to achieve that, and refine it until you had 
it as pure as possible, and then allow it to express itself through 
your mouth, and out would come the verbal part of the spell. This 
would account for the need to refine it, as you would first have to 
really focus in on exactly what you were trying to achieve and match 
it up to the sound/words.  But that seems so personal, I'm not sure 
how, using that process, you would be able to de-personalise it.

Sometimes you just watch yourself and think - am I really writing 
this :-)

Saraquel