Rare Blasting Curse

> As they soared upwards, away from the two remaining Death Eaters, Harry spat blood out of his mouth, pointed his wand at the falling sidecar, and yelled, *Confringo*!
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> The curse being used in the Battle of the Seven Potters, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

The **Blasting Curse** (*Confringo*) was a curse that caused the target to explode. This curse was also popular when it came to duelling. Template:Real Magical Spell

## 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

> Hermione screamed, ‘Confringo!’ and her spell flew around the room, exploding the wardrobe mirror and ricocheting back at them, bouncing from floor to ceiling; Harry felt the heat of it sear the back of his hand.
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> Hermione using this curse against Nagini in Bathilda Bagshot's home, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

### Possible uses

 Death Eater
 Unknown

## Known practitioners

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## See also

* Exploding Charm
* Expulso Curse
* ***Bombarda Maxima***

## Behind the scenes

* In Template:DH, 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 Template:DH, 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.

## Appearances

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## Notes and references

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