An Fire-Making Spell

> From lighting a warm hearth to igniting a Christmas pudding, the Fire-Making Spell is always useful around the wizarding household. However, the ability to produce fire with the flick of a wand can be dangerous to your fellow students (and worse, your books).
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> Miranda Goshawk, *Book of Spells*, Wonderbook: Book of Spells

The **Fire-Making Spell**, also known as the **Fire-Making Charm** (*Incendio*) was a charm that conjured a jet of flames that could be used to set things alight.Template:Real Magical Spell

## History

This spell was mentioned in the lyrics of ***Celestina Warbeck***'s song "***A Cauldron Full of Hot, Strong Love***".

## Known uses

> Flames rose at once in the fireplace, crackling merrily as though they had been burning for hours.
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> Arthur Weasley uses this spell at the Dursleys' house, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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## Known practitioners

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## Etymology

* In Latin, *incendio* is the dative or ablative singular of *incendium*, "fire", and can mean "to fire" or "for fire" (dative), "by fire" or "with fire" (ablative of instrument or means). Thus, the incantation is a way of calling upon fire to burn a desired object, since the spell caster wills harm to be done to an object "by (means of) fire."
* The magic word could also be a variant of the Latin *incendo*, "I set [something] on fire", with an "i" added before the final "o" for euphony.
* "Incendio" is the Spanish and Portuguese word for "wild fire". Also, in Italian, the word "Incendio" refers to a great fire similar to that one made by Thorfinn to Hagrid's house.
* "Incendio" is also the first person singular of the present of the Spanish, Portuguese and Italian verb "incendiar(e)", meaning "to set fire to".

## Behind the scenes

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* This may be the spell ***Remus Lupin*** used on the Hogwarts Express 1993, combined with a ***Flame-Freezing Charm*** when the lights went out as he is described as "holding a ***handful of flames***" though it is more likely that he used the charm for ***Bluebell Flames***.
* In the video game adaptations of ***Philosopher's Stone***, ***Chamber of Secrets***, and ***Goblet of Fire***, *Incendio* is incorrectly called the ***Bluebell Flames***, which is in fact an entirely different, but similar charm. It is used primarily to wilt dank-loving, threatening plants, burn through ***cobwebs*** and light torches. In the later games, it resumes its use as a spell to conjure a small burst of normal fire.
	+ Also in the second game, the manuals, and in-game info states it can be used as a duelling charm, despite that in the console versions it is the last spell to be learned in the game, thus duels are no longer as abundant. However, proof of this can be seen in that if the player times it right, they can cast their own Disarming Charm on the incoming mis-cast Indencio (as it flies back to hit the player) and thus catching the spell and mitigating it. This also works with the Knockback Jinx.
* This spell is the first known spell to be cast in the series, although magical devices (Dumbledore's ***Deluminator***), abilities (Animagi) and beings (Hagrid) appeared before.
* In Template:HBP, Bellatrix uses this spell to set Hagrid's hut on fire instead of Rowle.
* This spell's wand gesture given in Template:PM is identical to its wand gesture given in the ***PC version of the Philosopher's Stone video game***.

## Appearances

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## Notes and references

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1. ↑ Inside the Magic: "Singing Sorceress: Celestina Warbeck and the Banshees in Diagon Alley at Universal Orlando" on Youtube
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