How powerful is Hogwarts supposed to be?

[Gandalf]

I watched the movies, and gave up on the books. And most of the spells seem rather trivial, eg; the glasses repair thing. I often hear people going on about how Dumbledore is powerful and Voldemort is some bad ass dark lord.

[Steven Snyder]

I watched the movies, and gave up on the books. And most of the spells seem rather trivial, eg; the glasses repair thing. I often hear people going on about how Dumbledore is powerful and Voldemort is some bad ass dark lord.

I don't know. Hogwarts is a structure, a magically enhanced structure but just a building. I have never heard of Hogwarts actually attacking anything, so I don't know how 'powerful' it is.

[Gandalf]

Sorry, I meant stuff along the lines of the people inside it, and the such.

[Yogi]

Book 5 begins to get into the more "serious" magic at Hogwarts. There is a lack of "Throw a giant fireball and blow your opponent away" spells, and an emphasis on curses that disable the opponent's ability to fight,

[Steven Snyder]

The curses can be very powerful.

Ava Kedavra (sic?) is a death spell, the ray has to hit you but if it does there is no defense, you die. The only person EVER to survive one was Potter himself.

[The Drunkard Kid]

Well, to be fair, it seems they only mean magical defenses and personal armor. Every time someone shot it at Harry and there was something stone in front of him (tombstones, animated statues), the stone got shattered, but Harry didn't get hit by it.

Oddly enough, it doesn't seem to harm any living targets physically... Perhaps it's like a magical variant of Motoko's Zanmaken: Ni No Tachi from Love Hina (slices evil spirits/spells from the target without harming the human at all; if she performs it imperfectly, it also tends to slice all non-living things in it's path... like the clothes of the people holding the target...).

[Shadow WarChief]

I watched the movies, and gave up on the books. And most of the spells seem rather trivial, eg; the glasses repair thing. I often hear people going on about how Dumbledore is powerful and Voldemort is some bad ass dark lord.

Try getting back into the books. Things start getting really interesting in books 3-5. If you just stopped at #1, you're denying yourself some interesting reading. Along the lines of the more "serious" magic in the potter-verse

Are:
• the afore mentioned insant kill spell
•A torture spell
•A mind control spell
•possession
•legimency and occlumency (mind reading and defense against mind reading respectively
•resurrection
•limb regeneration
•teleportation
•summonings


The list goes on and on. The above is just what I could remember off the top of my head.

[generator_g1]

Here's some more...

1. Instant object repair (Reparo spell)
2. Flying memos
3. Animagi and Metamorphagi
4. Various magical items (Floo powder, Marauder's Map etc.)

[Kitsune]

The Swamp spell which Fred and George created would make a marvelous combat spell as well.

[Master of Ossus]

I watched the movies, and gave up on the books. And most of the spells seem rather trivial, eg; the glasses repair thing. I often hear people going on about how Dumbledore is powerful and Voldemort is some bad ass dark lord.

They're not that powerful in terms of combat, but some of their charm and enchantment spells are quite strong.

[generator_g1]

I don't know. Hogwarts is a structure, a magically enhanced structure but just a building. I have never heard of Hogwarts actually attacking anything, so I don't know how 'powerful' it is.

Well...if Hogwarts is like Alexandria Castle from FF 9...eeeppp!

[Slartibartfast]

Oddly enough, it doesn't seem to harm any living targets physically... Perhaps it's like a magical variant of Motoko's Zanmaken: Ni No Tachi from Love Hina (slices evil spirits/spells from the target without harming the human at all; if she performs it imperfectly, it also tends to slice all non-living things in it's path... like the clothes of the people holding the target...).

Now who in the world would actually try to get that spell right...