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"Professor Flitwick knows more about Entrancing Enchantments than any wizard I've met, the sly old dog!"
Gilderoy Lockhart[src]

Entrancing Enchantments[1] (incantation unknown) were charms used to entrance people; they were purple in colour.[2]

History[]

In 1927, Queenie Goldstein likely placed one of these enchantments on her romantic interest Jacob Kowalski, in order to convince him to marry her. Though Jacob was in love with her already, she wanted to marry in defiance of Rappaport's Law (which made No-Maj and wizardkind unions illegal), while he was reluctant to do so out of fear that she would get in serious legal trouble over the matter. However, their friend Newt Scamander realised that Jacob was bewitched when the couple visited him at his house 9 Sherringford Square, and he undid her spell with the counter-charm Surgito.[4]

As part of a Valentine's Day lesson in February 1988, Professor Flitwick taught fifth-year students about Entrancing Enchantments in Charms, although he did not teach how to cast them.[3]

During Gilderoy Lockhart's Valentine's Day party on 1993, Lockhart suggested students ask Flitwick about Entrancing Enchantments for the festivities, embarrassing the Charms professor.[1]

Known practitioners[]

Attempted[]

Behind the scenes[]

  • The fact that these are first mentioned on Valentine's Day, combined with the "entrancing" part of the name, implies that the spells have an effect similar to Love Potions. However, one difference is that unlike with Love Potions, the spells cause the target to be unable to remember what happened while they are entranced.
  • As with love potions, true love cannot be manufactured, so this charm most likely creates artificial infatuations.

Appearances[]

Notes and references[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 13 (The Very Secret Diary)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Harry Potter Trading Card Game
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 4, "Valentine's Day" Achievement - Part 1, Side Quest "Valentine's Day at Hogwarts"
  4. 4.0 4.1 Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay
Charms (class)
PS Wingardium Leviosa feather
Charm-book writers and developers
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Professors Fortinbras · Filius Flitwick · Abraham Ronen · Unidentified male professor · Unidentified medieval professor
Textbooks Achievements in Charming · Extreme Incantations · Quintessence: A Quest · The Standard Book of Spells
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