Creating spells

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 186051

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:

Geoff:
> > Did Snape just think up the Latin for "cut always" 
> > and imagine its result and – hey presto – it becomes 
> > a curse useable by anyone who knows of it? Is this 
> > how spells developed? Can anyone do this because 
> > this could mean that the Wizarding World could be 
> > awash with amateur spells just lurking and waiting 
> > to be used perhaps unknowingly.

Alla:
> Oh, pure speculation here, but I always thought that it is sort of backwards to what you described. Meaning that I thought that wizard would imagine the result first and then would come up with the words that better describe the result, if that makes sense. So to me in your example Snape would first imagine what happens to his enemies and then find a word for it.

Geoff:
I think we may be on the same wavelength here, Alla....  
I was really working along the same route as you in that 
Snape wanted a spell to produce that result and then 
considered what he thought the wording could possibly 
be.

But then, he actually came up with the correct spell - 
maybe after a lot of test runs?