Engorgement Charm
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The Engorgement Charm is a spell that causes a given object or creature to swell in size (CS7). Its incantation is Engorgio (GF14). Its couter-spell is Reducio (DH20).
Mentions of this spell in the series include:
- Hermione Granger suggests that Rubeus Hagrid had used an Engorgement Charm on the pumpkins he was growing for the Halloween feast (CS7).
- Arthur Weasley, while explaining himself to the Dursleys, guesses that the Ton-Tongue Toffee Dudley had eaten contained an Engorgement Charm (GF4).
- Professor Moody casts Engorgio on three spiders during a Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson, in order to demonstrate the effects of the three Unforgivable Curses (GF14).
- Ron Weasley tells Harry Potter that he had thought a bad Engorgement Charm to be the cause of Hagrid's unnatural size (GF23).
- Harry uses the Engorgement Charm to test his compatibility with a blackthorn wand that Ron had stolen from a group of Snatchers. Harry casts the spell on a spider in a forest where the Trio is currently camping. Ron, who is terrified of spiders, asks him to stop (DH20).
