Creating spells

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 186066

 "Miles":
 
> Just look at the language question. Why are most spells using Latin? What is 
> magical about Latin? Did manhood have no magic before Latin was spoken? 

Potioncat:
I think it's just like Europeans in general who lost all the knowledge of the ancients during the Dark Ages. So we have rediscovered and renamed scietific findings or, when we did discover an ancient text, we translated into Latin or English. By the time of Hogwarts' founding, Latin was the language of the educated.