Liberacorpus

Liberacorpus

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Liberacorpus
Incantation	Liberacorpus (lib-ER-A-cor-pus)
Type	Counter-spell
Hand movement	Jerk wand upwards
Light	None
Effect	Counteracts Levicorpus
Creator	Severus Snape (1977/1978)

"...he jerked his wand upwards; Snape fell into a crumpled heap on the ground."

—James Potter casts this spell on Snape in their youth.

Liberacorpus is the incantation for the counter-curse to Levicorpus.

Known uses

• James Potter cast this to reverse the Levicorpus jinx he'd cast on Snape earlier, due to Lily's request for him to do so.

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  Severus Snape,the creator

• His son, Harry Potter, used the spell in 1996 to counteract the Levicorpus spell he inadvertently cast on Ron Weasley.
• Harry used the spell again in 1998 to counteract the Levicorpus spell Hermione Granger cast on him once he took hold of the Hufflepuff's Cup during the trio's Gringott's raid.

Etymology

Liberacorpus name comes from the Latin words liberare, "to free," and corpus, "body."

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (First appearance)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (First identified as Liberacorpus)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows