Extraordinary Spell Creation

The art of creating new spells was both highly dangerous and complex. 
==Nature==
Only witches and wizards with great understanding of and skill in magic were known to be able to invent spells. It is unknown what the exact process was to creating spells other than crafting the wand movement and the incantation. What is known is that it was a very difficult, even dangerous process. If something went wrong, the results could prove fatal; an example of this was Pandora Lovegood's experimentation.
==Known spell inventors and their creations==
Name of crafter 	Spells created 	Notes
Albus Dumbledore 	Communication using Patronus Charms	Utilised during the Second Wizarding War. Invented by Albus Dumbledore using his own original designs.JKR Official Site (Text only, accessed 8 February, 2012 via the Wayback Web Archive)
Tom Riddle 	
*Morsmordre 
*Unsupported flight - The hardest wizarding world spells
*Curse on Marvolo Gaunt's ring 
*Several unknown spells	Used as the sign of the Death Eaters. Created during, or shortly prior to, the First Wizarding War.
Voldemort stated that a few spells of his own invention were used in the process of creating a rudimentary body.
Severus Snape 	
*Langlock
*Muffliato Charm
*Sectumsempra
*Dangling Jinx
*Liberacorpus
*Toenail-growing hex	All spells recorded in his copy of Advanced Potion Making were also crafted by him. Created between 1976 and 1978.
Gilderoy Lockhart	
Holographic spell 	
Invented this vainglorious spell, sometime between 1975 and 1982, during his time as a Ravenclaw student at Hogwarts, to shoot a glowing, holographic image of his own face into the sky, similar to the Dark Mark.
==Possible spell inventions==
*It is possible that Antonin Dolohov invented his signature curse as he is the only Death Eater shown using it and demonstrated a certain sadistic pride when he successfully cast it against Hermione during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries.
*Lord Voldemort likely invented some of the protective spells he used in the hiding places of his Horcruxes, such as the Gaunt Shack and the Horcrux Cave. These spells were extremely dark in nature and extremely difficult for even Albus Dumbledore to penetrate sometimes requiring the aid of another wizard.
*It is possible that Hermione Granger invented the Four-Point Spell, as she particularly searched it for Harry Potter (who is the only person who used it) and the incantation is English. 
**It is also likely that she invented the Dumbledore's Army parchment jinx, given the apparent lack of a counter-jinx or cure apart from the boils fading on their own, as well as being specifically stated to identify traitors from the army.
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==Notes and references==
Category:Branches Of-Real Magic