Rare Blasting Curse

The Blasting Curse (Confringo) was a curse that caused the target to explode. This curse was also popular when it came to duelling. 
==History==
The Blasting curse was invented some time before the year 1430, when Alberta Toothill used this curse in the All-England Wizarding Duelling Competition. Toothill defeated Samson Wiblin, who was the favourite. In 1890, the Slytherin student Sebastian Sallow showed an unidentified student a secret chamber known as the Undercroft in which he taught the student the Blasting Curse and allowed him to practise it on items in the chamber, including hanging candelabras. Upon learning it, the student used it several times, including in various Trials of Merlin in the Scottish Highlands surrounding the Hogwarts grounds. They likely also utilised it in combat from then on.
==Known uses==
Caster(s) 	Date 	Notes
Harry Potter 	27 July, 1997 	Harry used this curse to destroy Sirius Black's flying motorcycle's side-car during the Battle of the Seven Potters.
Hermione Granger	24 December, 1997	Hermione used it in an attempt to kill Nagini and facilitate her and Harry's escape from Bathilda Bagshot's house in Godric's Hollow, but broke Harry's wand in the process.
===Possible uses===
Caster(s) 	Date 	Notes
Peter Pettigrew	November 1, 1981	Likely used an extremely powerful Blasting Curse to decimate a street and kill twelve Muggles at once in London, while evading Sirius Black, who was blamed for the crimes and Pettigrew's alleged death. The explosion was so fierce, it left a massive crater in the street, with the pipes showing. The Ministry gave an excuse of a "gas leak" to the surviving Muggles, and thought that Black was the one who used the curse.
Death Eater 	1980s 	It was possible that this was the curse used by a Death Eater to kill Benjy Fenwick, as he was blasted into pieces and fellow members of the Order of the Phoenix only managed to find bits of his body.
Unknown 	1998 	This curse may have been the cause of the explosion which killed Fred Weasley during the Battle of Hogwarts.
==Known practitioners==
Hermione Granger.jpg|Hermione Granger
Harry Potter.jpg|Harry Potter
==Etymology==
Confringo is Latin for "I break".
==See also==
*Exploding Charm
*Expulso Curse
*Bombarda Maxima
==Behind the scenes==
*In , Professor McGonagall possibly uses the Blasting Curse to duel against Snape (just in case this is not the Blasting Curse, it is referred to as the Fiery offensive spell), defeating Amycus and Alecto Carrow in the process. Though it did not burn them and simply knocked them down, leaving them incapacitated.
*In , Harry uses the Blasting Curse against Nagini in an attempt to kill her and possibly to provoke Voldemort to chase Harry, so the snake would stay behind unprotected. This fails in that the spells bounces off Nagini, due to her magical protection, and instead strikes multiple Death Eaters, though they were only knocked over and otherwise seemed undamaged by the explosive spell. Immediately after this instance, Voldemort also casted several Blasting Curses at Harry as he jumped into a corridor and escaped Voldemort's wrath.
*Both this spell and Expulso share similar effects, though - unlike the latter - Confringo is sometimes accompanied by fiery explosions. The reason for this may be that Confringo is the result of a sharp, local temperature increase where as Expulso increases the local pressure to cause explosions. However, in the Deathly Hallows video games, Confringo is an explosive spell, while Expulso serves as a sort of "machine gun" spell, causing damage similar to gunshots.
*In different varieties of games and films, the colour of Confringo varies. Its two main colours so far are a light blue and purple, or simply a fiery explosion.
*In the video game adaption of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the colour of the curse varies. For the player, the curse is blue; enemies fire red curses; bosses, Snape, Greyback and Bellatrix, fire green curses.
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==Notes and references==
Category:Curses
Category:An-The Fire-Based Real-Magic
Category:Spells With-An Light
Category:Spells With Incantations of Latin Known Origin