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- "'He says that counter-jinxes are improperly named,' said Hermione promptly. 'He says "counter-jinx" is just a name people give their jinxes when they want to make them sound more acceptable.'"
- — Wilbert Slinkhard regarding counter-jinxes[src]
A counter-jinx was a type of counter-spell that ended the effect of a jinx.[1]
Effects[]
It differed from an anti-jinx in that an anti-jinx was intended to prevent those effects rather than remove them.[2] Hermione Granger once had to look up the counter-jinx for the Jelly-Legs Jinx in June 1995.[1]
History[]
- "...took particular pleasure, during the practical examination, in performing all the counter-jinxes and defensive spells right in front of Umbridge, who was watching coolly from near the doors into the Entrance Hall."
- — Harry Potter's DADA practical O.W.L. exam[src]
During the 1988–1989 school year, Professor Patricia Rakepick would often ask her fifth year Defence Against the Dark Arts students to use counter-jinxes.[3]
Wilbert Slinkhard said that the term "counter-jinx" was a misnomer, implying that they were intended with just as much harm as the spells they countered, though Hermione Granger disagreed with this assessment, much to the disapproval of Dolores Umbridge in a fifth year Defence Against the Dark Arts class in late 1995.[4]
Practical Defensive Magic and Its Use Against the Dark Arts contained moving colour illustrations of the various counter-jinxes and hexes that it illustrated.[5]
Fifth years were expected to preform counter-jinxes as apart of their Defence Against the Dark Arts practical O.W.L. exam.[6]
Known counter-jinxes[]
Appearances[]
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Appears in flashback(s))
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned only)
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay (Mentioned only)
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film) (Mentioned only)
- Pottermore
- Wizarding World
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
- Harry Potter: Wizards Unite (Mentioned only)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 31 (The Third Task)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 9 (The Woes of Mrs Weasley)
- ↑ Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5 - Defence Against the Dark Arts classes
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 15 (The Hogwarts High Inquisitor)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 23 (Christmas on the Closed Ward)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 31 (O.W.L.s)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 12 (Silver and Opals)