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Abscidere: from Latin; hew, separate, remove, destroy. Effect: splits or breaks apart the object of the spell (Snape uses it on the tomb).

Adsumo spiritus tuus: from Latin; adsumo, take, receive; spiritus, breath, life, soul; tuus, your. Effect: tethers the lifeforce of one person to that of the caster.

Animarecordis: from Latin; animare, animate, revive, bring life; cordis, heart. Effect: restarts heart.

Arrestocordis: from Latin; cordis, heart. Effect: stops the heart.

Celebrare Adfectus Amor Ultimus: from Latin; celebrare, perform, celebrate, honour; adfectus, feeling, emotion; amor, love; ultimus, greatest, highest. Effect: draws the affected person to the one whom they love the most; if the love is mutual and of the same quality, the spell can reach out and envelope the other party. Unlike the Actus Adfectus Amor Verissimus, there is no imperative to act upon it through sexual consummation, but the spell does not dissipate if not consummated; if consummated, the spell allows shared emotion and shared sensation. As a side-effect, the spell can cure curse damage and physical ailments, including infertility, and the healing effect can often be directed by the healthy party. During the consummation, the spell binds the magic of the participants; the bond can become permanent, but it is a very basic, benevolent bond of only their magic.

Conruptus: from Latin; rotten, infected, damaged, etc. Effect: causes gangrene-like damage, loss of tissue. Spell must be aimed, and it affects the body part that it directly hits.

Decapito: from medieval Latin; decapitate. Effect: rather obviously, it cuts off someone's head.

Dolo: from Latin; cudgel, batter. Effect: Hard blow. Not as powerful as Massuelius.

Exentero: from Latin; disembowel. Effect: it eviscerates someone, disemboweling them.

Frangere: from Latin; break, shatter, crush, fracture. Effect: breaks bones into small shards; the extent of the effect is determined by the strength with which it is cast. Spell must be aimed at and hit the specific body part.

Parlakkalkan: from Turkish; parlak, bright; kalkan, shield. Effect: creates a strong shield that stops curses and other spells in bursts of coloured light; colours vary according to the spell being stopped.

Percido: from Latin; punch hard. Effect: like punching someone … hard.

Praecordiarigescere: from Latin; praecordia, diaphragm; rigescere, stiffen, grow rigid. Effect: paralyzes the diaphragm, inhibiting breathing.

Prospirote: from Latin; te, you; pro, for, on behalf of, forward, in front of, continue, etc.; spiro, life, breath, etc. Effect: causes the person upon whom the spell is cast to be breathed for by the person who casts the spell; sort of a wizarding substitute for the mechanical ventilator. Useful if the diaphragm muscles are not working for some reason. The person who casts the spell is called the Prospirator, which is also the name of the spell.

Protego connex: from Latin; connectere, join, connect. Effect: combines two or more Protegos; difficult to cast.

Massuelius: from Latin; mace, club, etc. Effect: injuries as if from a very hard blow, ranging from bruising to severe internal injuries and broken bones, depending on the force with which it is cast. Spell must be aimed, and it affects the body part that it directly hits.

Mosgail: from Gaelic (Scots); awaken. Effect: wakes someone from a deep sleep; also the counter-spell to Suain.

Repello cantamen: from Latin; cantamen, incantation, spell; Effect: repels the specific spell cast.

Suain: from Gaelic (Scots); sleep. Effect: puts a person in a deep, undisturbable sleep for a number of hours unless awoken first by the counter-spell.

Te adopto et nomino: from Latin; te, you; adopto, (I) adopt; nomino, (I) name. Effect: truncated magical adoption; adopts an adult into a family and renames them.

Terraquatere: from Latin; terra, earth; quatere, shake. Effect: causes ground to heave, can create a crack in the earth.

Timere magia: from Latin; timere, dread, fear; magia, magic. Effect: causes great fear of anything magic. Curse name: Timor magicus.

Tua anima spiro: from Latin; tua, your; anima, soul, spirit, breath, vital principle; spiro, (I) breathe. Effect: returns or releases the life force of another, reversing Adsumo spiritus tuus.

Vivere: from Latin; live. Effect: used in conjunction with Animarecordis following Arrestocordis to resuscitate someone.

Wilspy: born 29 November 1817. Albus's own house-elf.

Philomena (Flint) Yaxley: born 1845. An old friend of Albus's. Former Head of International Magical Cooperation. Ravenclaw.

Siofre Tyree: born August 1845. Minerva's paternal grandmother. Informal counsellor on many matters. Ravenclaw.

Egeria Egidius McGonagall: born February 1875. Minerva's mother; Healer-Midwife. Gryffindor.

Reginald Crouch: born July 1886. Deceased, but mentioned as Robert's father; Gertrude's first husband. Ministry diplomat. Gryffindor.

Caroline (Egidius) Mayfield: born 1888. Minerva's cousin (her mother's brother's daughter). Businesswoman and glass-charmer. Slytherin.

Gertrude Gamp: born January 1897. Gareth and Robert's mother; widow of the late Malcolm McGonagall, Minerva's oldest brother, and of Reginald Crouch. Former Arithmancy teacher at Hogwarts, an old friend of Dumbledore's. Slytherin.

Malcolm Mercury McGonagall: born June 1907. Deceased, but mentioned several times. Minerva's oldest brother; Gareth's father. Curse-breaker & pest-control specialist. Gryffindor.

Murdoch Maxentius McGonagall: born May 1913. Melina's father; Minerva's youngest brother, still 12 years older than she; married to second wife, Estelle Archer. Potions master and apothecary. Ravenclaw.

Cormac Quinlivan "Quin" MacAirt: born April 1916. Alroy's father; businessman. Significantly disabled after DE attack in 1973; cured as a result of information provided by Severus. did not attend school.

Robert Gropius Crouch: born August 1919. Gertrude's son by her first husband, Reginald Crouch; has one daughter, Madelief, with his wife, Thea. Potions master and apothecary in Amsterdam. British expat since childhood. Durmstrang.

Melina (McGonagall) O'Donald: born August 1936. Minerva's niece; daughter of Murdoch and his first wife, Alessandrina; Healer specialising in curse damage; Hufflepuff.

Blampa: born April 1939. Minerva's Hogwarts house-elf since December 1956.

Alroy Cormac MacAirt: born 20 December 1945. Quin's son with late Aileen Gamp MacAirt; Gertrude's great-nephew; Animagus; businessman; Transfiguration teacher and Head of Gryffindor 1997-98; Gryffindor.

Characters New in Death's Dominion

Amanda Teller: born 1945. Muggle Studies teacher. Slytherin.

Morgana Glynnis McGonagall: born May 1958. One of Minerva's nieces; a twin daughter of Morgan and Fiona. Deputy Minister for Information Sorcery, Australian Ministry. Slytherin.

Branwen Siofre (McGonagall) Douglas: born May 1958. One of Minerva's nieces, a twin daughter of her middle brother, Morgan. An expert in ancient languages and archaic spells, taking after her grandfather, Merwyn McGonagall. Ravenclaw.

Calum Michael O'Donald: born December 1960. Melina and Brennan O'Donald's son; Minerva's great-nephew. A wizard, he nonetheless follows in his Muggle chemist father's footsteps and becomes a research chemist for a large pharmaceutical company. Home-schooled in magic, he does not attend Hogwarts, but is about the same age as Severus.

Rosemary Minerva O'Donald: born March 1962. Melina and Brennan's daughter; Minerva's great-niece. Ravenclaw.

Gareth Reginald McGonagall: born 24 September 1964. Gertrude and Malcolm's son; named after her deceased brother, Gareth Gamp, and her late husband, Reginald Crouch. Arithmancer. Ravenclaw.

Twiskett: born May 1967. Severus's Hogwarts house-elf since 1982; quiet and tenaciously loyal to Professor Snape. Member of Snape's Slytherins.

Helena Benetti: born 1976. Viktor Krum's fiancee; member of Hooch's squadron. Canadian, but flies with the Sweetwater All-Stars. Whiteshell Academy in Manitoba (not a canon school).

Eoghan Bertrand Tyree: born 10 October 1987. Adopted son of Siofre and her husband (April 1996); great-great-grandson of Siofre's brother, Murdoch Tyree, and Murdoch's wife, Lydia Prince. After his parents, Liam Tyree and Judith Gold, are killed in November 1995, Eoghan moves into the Tyree place with Lydia, Siofre, and her husband (Lydia dies in March 1996).

First Appearances

Gertrude Gamp: first mentioned in Resolving a Misunderstanding ("RaM") chapter 1; first appears in chapter 13.

Egeria Egidius: first appears in RaM chapter 4.

Murdoch McGonagall: first appears in RaM chapter 4.

Melina (McGonagall) O'Donald: first appears in RaM chapter 4.

Malcolm McGonagall: first mentioned in RaM chapter 4, frequently mentioned and described before his first appearance in chapter 92.

Blampa: first appears in RaM chapter 6.

Wilspy: first appears in RaM chapter 7.

Siofre Tyree: first mentioned in RaM chapter 27, first appears in chapter 135; frequently mentioned in the intervening chapters.

Philomena (Flint) Yaxley: first mentioned in RaM chapter 31, first appears in chapter 78.

Reginald Crouch: first mentioned in RaM chapter 39, described more in chapter 80; featured in "The Unsentimental Arithmancer."

Alroy MacAirt: first appears at end of RaM chapter 39.

Quin MacAirt: first appears at end of RaM chapter 39.

Robert Crouch: first appears in RaM chapter 43.

Caroline Mayfield: first appears in "Now is Perfect."

Eilean Tèarmunn, the island on which Gertrude lives in DD, first appears in A Holiday with the Headmaster, and is mentioned again in the closing few chapters of RaM.

DD has a new OC Muggle Studies teacher because I can only associate the canon character with the single, disturbing scene in which she appears in DH. I admit it: I'm a wimp with a sensitive stomach. In DD, the other witch is happily growing prize-winning roses and degnoming her gardens!

Kevin Harper, the fifth-year Slytherin who appears several times during the Hogwarts Battle chapter, is not precisely an original character, although we only have his last name in canon and no description of him other than that he is a Slytherin. There are a few other very peripheral DD characters whose names come from canon but about whom we know very little. Ritchie Connolly is another of those whose last names I took from canon, but I gave him his first name; he's a Beater for the Irish national Quidditch team.