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<blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 3278148" data-attributes="member: 4936"><p>Well...honestly?</p><p></p><p>You can't just tack Harry Potter onto the D&D spell list. There's stuff on that list that seems to me to be waaaaaay beyond the Potterverse...or just totally against the spirit of Potterian magic in general.</p><p></p><p>In general, Potterverse magic doesn't seem able to -create- or -destroy- things. Spells incapcitate by paralyzing, or changing the target's nature into something that can't move as freely. I've yet to see a spell that traps someone by wrapping them in chains. Similarly, there's no "disintegrate" in the Potterverse. In fact, if I had to characterize it in D&D terms, I'd say Potterverse magic is almost (if not quite) entirely of the Transmutation school. <em>Adavra Kedevra</em> is clearly Necromancy (as are several other of Voldemort's techniques). There are some Enchantment/Charm spells...most of them having highly specific effects, like making someone laugh, or angry... The more powerful Enchantments are Deadly Curses (Dominate...and I'd consider <em>Cruciatus</em> to be something akin to "power word: pain" and thus also of the Enchantment school).</p><p></p><p>Noteably, there doesn't appear to be ANY "Evocation" spells, or Summoning spells (summoning in Potterverse means bringing a physical object to the caster, not whisking up some beastie <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />). Illusions seem very limited, and may well be limited to permanantly enchanted -items- rather than spells.</p><p></p><p>Oh, and don't forget the Animagus feats! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shayuri, post: 3278148, member: 4936"] Well...honestly? You can't just tack Harry Potter onto the D&D spell list. There's stuff on that list that seems to me to be waaaaaay beyond the Potterverse...or just totally against the spirit of Potterian magic in general. In general, Potterverse magic doesn't seem able to -create- or -destroy- things. Spells incapcitate by paralyzing, or changing the target's nature into something that can't move as freely. I've yet to see a spell that traps someone by wrapping them in chains. Similarly, there's no "disintegrate" in the Potterverse. In fact, if I had to characterize it in D&D terms, I'd say Potterverse magic is almost (if not quite) entirely of the Transmutation school. [i]Adavra Kedevra[/i] is clearly Necromancy (as are several other of Voldemort's techniques). There are some Enchantment/Charm spells...most of them having highly specific effects, like making someone laugh, or angry... The more powerful Enchantments are Deadly Curses (Dominate...and I'd consider [i]Cruciatus[/i] to be something akin to "power word: pain" and thus also of the Enchantment school). Noteably, there doesn't appear to be ANY "Evocation" spells, or Summoning spells (summoning in Potterverse means bringing a physical object to the caster, not whisking up some beastie :)). Illusions seem very limited, and may well be limited to permanantly enchanted -items- rather than spells. Oh, and don't forget the Animagus feats! :) [/QUOTE]
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