A world of wizardry and magic has infinite charms—especially to people who’ve seen so much of reality that they’d pay a significant chunk of their income to entertain themselves and have a short lived escape from it. Hollywood captures men’s imagination more vividly than most media of entertainment, and the fusion of books and movies creates a spectrum of transliterating creativity and imagination that the simple act of bringing a famous and best selling book to life on the big screen is enough promotion in itself. One frivolous and amusing aspect of the popular book turned movie series Harry Potter is the Harry Potter spells.
Now everyone knows Harry Potter. In fact Daniel Radcliffe would probably have his hands full trying to rid himself of the character’s name for the rest of his life. In the book and the movies, the Harry Potter spells are cast in a combination of wand gestures and mental or spoken incantations, which are often derived from classical languages yet not used in any grammatically proper way. There are many practical, magical, and dangerous uses to the plethora of spells born from J.K. Rowling’s mind. From Alohomora which opens locks to Lumos which casts a light from the tip of one’s wand to Wingardium Leviosa that levitates any object; many of the spells indeed have practical uses that we’d love to apply to our world. The spells are probably even one of the best selling points of the series—most Harry Potter fans would even compete in memorizing all of them; their incantations and wand motions.
Harry Potter spells—and the enthusiasm for them—perhaps best signify people’s desire to make things easier for themselves and their loved ones; to make dreary reality more magical by suddenly conjuring a bunch of flowers through Orchideous; and to know that vested deep within themselves is such a power as to control, torture, or even murder at will, with a few words and a flick of the hand. Part of that is macabre, yes, but it’s true. Men thirst for such luxuries as spells like that, and for logical reasons. Reality has become much too disenchanted.
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