People resorted to drilling holes in peoples heads, bloodletting and leeching, arsenic, incantations, and a host of balms and salves that could work… but could also ultimately kill a person faster than the pathogens would.
The curse Dolohov had used on her though less effective than it would have been had he been able to say the incantation aloud, had nevertheless caused, in Madam Pomfrey's words, " quite enough damage to be going on with."
" If we're staying, we should put some protective enchantments around the place, " she replied, and raising her wand, she began to walk in a wide circle around Harry and Ron, murmuring incantations as she went.
Still, in spite of the remaining mysteries, many inscriptions memorializing the dead and recording local histories have been deciphered — along with some containing magical incantations.
I can act from here, " said Flitwick, and although he could barely see out of it, he pointed his wand through the smashed window and started muttering incantations of great complexity. "
As small groups of students were called forwards in alphabetical order, those left behind muttered incantations and practised wand movements, occasionally poking each other in the back or eye by mistake.
" But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. "
Ron, who was supposed to be jinxing Harry, was purple in the face, his lips tightly compressed to save himself from the temptation of muttering the incantation.
It was a strange jargon—the Lord's Prayer repeated backwards—the incantation usual in proceedings for obtaining unhallowed assistance against an enemy.
Snape was muttering incantations, pointing his wand at the wrist of the hand, while with his left hand he tipped a goblet full of thick golden potion down Dumbledore's throat.
Unfortunately, they could not copy the spell she was doing because she was now so good at non-verbal incantations that she did not need to say the words aloud.