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"And and then Harry saw him. Voldemort was flying similar smoke on the wind, without broomstick or thestral to concur him, his serpent-like face up gleaming out of the blackness, his white fingers raising his wand over again —"

— Lord Voldemort flying unsupported^[src]

This form of flight (incantation unknown) was a spell that allowed a witch or sorcerer to wing without the use of a broomstick or other form of back up.^[3] The spell was notably demonstrated by Lord Voldemort.^[one]

Contents

• 1 History
  • 1.i Early attempts
  • ane.2 Discovery
  • one.3 Later on uses
• two Nature
• 3 Known practitioners
• 4 Behind the scenes
• 5 Appearances
• 6 Notes and references

History

Early attempts

"No spell yet devised enables wizards to wing unaided in human course... Levitation is commonplace, but our ancestors were not content with hovering five feet from the ground. They wanted more. They wanted to wing like birds, just without the inconvenience of growing feathers."

— Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch Through the Ages ^[src]

Jarleth Hobart's first public use of the Levitation Charm on himself, on 16 July, 1544

Attempts to fly unaided had been fabricated by wizards since ancient times. Levitation had been possible at least since the invention of the Levitation Spell in ancient England,^[four] and an attempt to improve upon this and achieve true flight made by Jarleth Hobart in 1544 led to the invention of the Levitation Amuse.^[5] The flying broomstick, which allowed wizards to fly with relative ease and convenience, was invented around 962 A.D., and seemed to satisfy most wizards' want to fly. Unaided flight of a human being, however, was long considered a magical impossibility, discounting any animagi whose form take on flight-able species.^[6]

A rare example of a wizard flying unaided happened in 1926, when the Obscurial Acceptance Barebone unleashed his pent-up abilities, transforming into his Obscurus form and flight around New York. However, for obvious reasons, this was far from the secret sought by wizards, since it was impossible to control by the sorcerer himself and an incomparable symptom of a deadly condition.^[7]

Discovery

Sometime prior to 1997, Tom Riddle succeeded where nearly other wizards had failed and managed truthful flight. He first publicly demonstrated this power during the Battle of the Vii Potters, using the spell to great effect and almost managing to defeat Harry Potter while he was fighting him from the sky. It was probable that he would have killed Harry if non for an odd reaction involving their wands.^[one]

Later uses

Severus Snape flight without back up out of Hogwarts Castle

Following his discovery, Riddle taught this spell to his servant Severus Snape, who used it to safely escape from Hogwarts shortly earlier the Battle of Hogwarts.^[8] While forced to share Quirinus Quirrell's body in 1991-1992, Riddle had also apparently taught the secret to Quirrell, likely for his own convenience.^[ix]

After his expiry, Riddle's daughter, Delphini, mastered the use of this ability besides,^[ten] although how she did so without him to assistance her is unknown.

Nature

Voldemort in flying

Unsupported flight was dissimilar from levitation, which just immune objects to fly a few feet off the ground and did not work on humans. Unsupported flight was specifically designed for man use, giving ane the ability to fly far up without the assist of an object.^[ane] It is unknown how long a person could stay airborne or if it worked over vast distances.

Known practitioners

Behind the scenes

• In the Harry Potter films, Apparition is ofttimes depicted every bit similar to flight, with those using information technology even able to cast spells, physically fight, and bear upon the stability of the Millennium Bridge while flying closely around its support cables, causing them to interruption off telekinetically. In this course, characters are shown to be able to bear on and collide with each other hard plenty to launch humans several yards or fifty-fifty pause through wooden or stone walls. The characters that do and so, namely Expiry Eaters or Club of the Phoenix members, can turn into pillars of blackness or white fume that rush through the air. Equally it is portrayed in the books, however, this sort of application of Apparition would be incommunicable, and thus this cannot be considered canon. Also, in every picture show with the Dark Marker in the heaven, Decease Eaters are shown Apparating inside of its oral fissure in smoke form. This allows them to wing out of information technology and appear wherever it is cast, allowing them to utilize it as a sort of portal.
• Too in the films, Voldemort tin can turn into and emanate black smoke, especially from his cloak, allowing him to levitate, float, and shoot through the air, even while partially transformed into it, while his version of flight in the books did non involve any fume effects.
• Many of the Death Eaters during the film version of the Battle of the Seven Potters besides were using brooms, despite seemingly all of them demonstrating the ability in flight in fume, equally well every bit demonstrating beingness able to use magic while flying.
• In the films, Dementors also appear to possess the ability of unsupported flight, which differs from the books, where they are described to but glide over the ground.
• In the moving picture accommodation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Quirinus Quirrell was shown flying without any visible support on several occasions. He flew though the air to tackle Harry in the concluding of the seven Clandestine Chambers, was levitating and gliding forth the ground while consuming the claret of a unicorn in the Night Forest, and Harry encountered, before flying off into the heaven when escaping Firenze. It is likely that for his own convenience, Voldemort himself, who was sharing Quirrell's torso at the fourth dimension, had taught him the undercover (which is consistent with his having washed so for another trusted underling and Quirrell existence described equally a very bright wizard past Hagrid).
• It is unknown how Delphini learnt the skill of unsupported flight, and whether information technology was biologically inherited, passed down through writing, or learned independently.

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher'due south Stone (movie) (First appearance)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Function ane
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Kid (play)
• Quidditch Through the Ages (Mentioned only)
• Pottermore (Mentioned only)
• Wizarding World (Mentioned only)
• LEGO Harry Potter: Years five-7
• Wonderbook: Book of Spells (Mentioned only)
• Harry Potter for Kinect

Notes and references

1. ↑ ^{ane.0 one.1 i.two one.3 1.4 1.5} Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 4 (The Seven Potters)
2. ↑ Wizarding World - The hardest wizarding world spells
3. ↑ J.Thousand. Rowling on Twitter @dwmw24601: @jk_rowling @bluesrgt So would that work the aforementioned for brooms? Would more than advanced wizards/witches non demand a broom to fly? @jk_rowling: @dwmw24601 @bluesrgt Exactly. Wands and brooms (and flight cars) are tools that channel magic. The most gifted can dispense with them.
4. ↑ Cast-a-Spell kit institute in the Library section of the Harry Potter Official Site.
5. ↑ "Wonderbook - E3 2012: Game Debut" from GameTrailers
6. ↑ Quidditch Through the Ages, Chapter one (The Evolution of the Flying Broomstick)
7. ↑ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Affiliate 30 (The Sacking of Severus Snape)
9. ↑ ^{ix.0 ix.1} Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Rock (film)
10. ↑ ^{10.0 x.1} Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Act Four, Scene Eleven

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