Periculum
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| Periculum | |
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| Incantation: |
Periculum (puh-rick-you-lum) |
| Type: |
Spell |
| Hand Movement: |
Direct your wand at the place where you want your sparks to go |
| Effect: |
Sends out sparks |
Periculum is a spell that allows the caster to send out red sparks from their wand. However, the sparks are firework-like, and have a vast range, shooting up to a great height, then slowly falling back to earth and dissipating. It's use seems to warn, when one is in danger. It is the wizarding equivalent of a flare gun.
[edit] Etymology
Periculum is Latin for "danger".
[edit] Uses
- Harry Potter used this spell to send red sparks into the sky for the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Professors to rescue Fleur Delacour from the leafy tendrils of the maze in the Third Task of the Triwizard Tournament in 1995. Victor Krum, whilst under the Imperius Curse set upon him by Alastor Moody (being impersonated by Barty Crouch Jr.), had stunned or otherwise incapacitated her, and left the maze to "clean up." The spell is akin to a flare and is used to mark the location of "danger" or an "accident".
- The Order of the Phoenix, too, may have used this spell in 1995 as the signal for the Advance Guard escorting Harry to 12 Grimmauld Place.
