Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Scourgify

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Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter - Magic
Scourgify
Type Spell (Charm)
Features Cleans up foreign material
First Appearance Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Overview[edit | edit source]

Scourgify is one of the cleaning charms, used to clean foreign material off surfaces.

Extended Description[edit | edit source]

Beginner warning: Details follow which you may not wish to read at your current level.

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, we see it a couple of times; Tonks uses it with limited results to clean Hedwig's cage (she admits that she's not very good at that); and Ginny uses it to clean up the Stinksap that Neville's Mimbulus Mimbletonia has sprayed around the compartment of the Hogwarts Express. It is also used to "wash out" a young Snape's mouth in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Analysis[edit | edit source]

Scourgify seems to be limited to surfaces; it cannot restore spilled liquids to a container, only eliminating them. It also is not used to remove foreign matter from a container; Evanesco is used for that – which may be why Tonks' attempt to clean Hedwig's cage, a container, does not succeed. There is also a charm Tergeo that seems to be used for almost the same purpose.

Questions[edit | edit source]

Study questions are meant to be left for each student to answer; please don't answer them here.

Greater Picture[edit | edit source]

Intermediate warning: Details follow which you may not wish to read at your current level.
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