Rarely Scouring Charm

The Scouring Charm (Scourgify) was a cleaning charm used for washing things. It could also be used to clean out smaller infestations of bundimun. This spell was listed in the third chapter of Book of Spells by Miranda Goshawk. Many wizarding families used this spell, both for cleaning and punishing people who swore, as the spell caused human mouths to be filled with soap.
==History==
James Potter used this charm to bully Severus Snape on the Hogwarts grounds, causing soap to fill his mouth.In the 1987–1988 school year, this charm was taught to the fourth-years in Charms class by Professor Filius Flitwick. Jacob's sibling later used the Scouring Charm to clean up Bundimun Secretion in Rubeus Hagrid's hut.Hermione Granger taught Neville Longbottom the Scouring Charm to clean frog guts out from under his fingernails, in their fourth year.The Scouring Charm was used by Nymphadora Tonks when attempting to clean Hedwig's cage during their liberation of Harry Potter from 4 Privet Drive in 1995. The spell had only a minimal effect and Tonks admitted that she had never quite gotten the hang of "household-y" spells of this type. It was later used by Ginevra Weasley on 1 September that year on the Hogwarts Express to clear Stinksap that had squirted from Neville's Mimbulus mimbletonia.
==Known practitioners==
Filius Flitwick profile.jpg|Filius Flitwick
Best Main James Potter.jpg|James Potter
Hermione Granger HBP.jpg|Hermione Granger
Ginny Weasley HBPF promo.jpg|Ginny Weasley
Neville HBP 1996.jpg|Neville Longbottom
==Etymology==
Perhaps related to English scour, "clean". -ify is a common English suffix meaning "to make ...". Therefore scourgify likely means "to make clean".
==Behind the scenes==
*The Skurge Charm, which is used to clean up Ectoplasm, may be a variant of this spell.
*In , the hand gesture is "a smooth, sinuous motion, like a letter 'S".
*The Scholastic Official Site lists this as the Vanishing Spell.
*In Spanish, this spell is known as "Fregotego".
*In Hebrew, this spell is known as "התקרצף" ("Hit-kar-tzef"), which means "scrub yourself".
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==Notes and references==
Category:Charms
Category:Known Cleaning Spells
Category:Spells Of-Known Incantation