Creating spells

[eggplant107]

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"potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> wrote:

> how does one create new spells?

If you want to tell Muggles like us how to create new spells it's going to sound pretty vague. Actually I had to do just that for a fanfiction I was writing. For reasons I won't bother to explain
Harry needed to learn that spell Lupin used in PoA, he needed to conjure fire into his bare hands so he looked it up in a book on magic and he ended up improving the spell:

Time to see what makes this fire spell tick Harry thought; ok I understand that part, right, right, that makes sense, wait a
minute why do they say�. Ok now I see, and then you invert that
then repeat this middle part again put that there then just
cancel the remainder out and it all should work.
Well let's give it a try.

Harry held up his index finger and a flame leapt from the tip.
Neat, the flame looks just as the book says it should, but
actually the fire is really no better than what you'd get from a cigarette lighter, I wonder if I can do a little better. Let me
look at that spell again, hmm this part seems too convoluted to me, I'll bet the same thing could be accomplished more directly, yes
that would be better, now there's room to do it twice and double
the heat, no I can fit three of them in there. There seems to be something working at cross purposes too, I mean when you really
think about it 95% of the heat you gain here you lose over there, that won't do, but if I just repeated that part again then turn it inside out the negative would change into a positive and
everything would be pulling in the same direction and the problem would go away. I don't see the point of doing this step here
either, it should be done at the very end because then you can eliminate all that useless overhead.

Harry tried again and a foot long white hot torch roared from his fingertip intense enough to burn through the armor on a battleship. That's better Harry thought.

 Eggplant