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Encyclopedia > Dark Arts

Dark arts may refer to:

  • Dark Art, art that is broadly defined as disturbing or horrific in nature.
For other uses, see Black magic (disambiguation). ... The Dark Arts, in the Harry Potter series, are those magical spells and practices most used for malicious purposes. ... Joanne Rowling OBE (born July 31, 1965 in Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire), commonly known as J.K. Rowling (pronunciation: roll-ing; her former students used to joke with her name calling her the Rolling Stone), is a British fiction writer. ... Cover of the first book in J. K. Rowlings series: Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (British/Canadian/Australian/Irish/ Japanese/Taiwanese/African version) The Harry Potter books are a series of fantasy novels by British writer J. K. Rowling. ... The Dark Arts, in the Harry Potter series, are magical spells and practices designed for evil purposes. ...

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Dark Art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (973 words)
The Dark Arts, in the Harry Potter series, are magical spells and practices designed for evil purposes.
Most Dark wizards are Pure-Blooded, or at least prejudiced against those who are not, but since all Dark wizards encountered in the books are Death Eaters this may be an attitude particular to Voldemort's followers.
The Dark Arts are implicitly illegal, but prevalent enough in society that even before the rise of Lord Voldemort many schools (including Hogwarts) taught Defence Against the Dark Arts as a subject.
Hogwarts subjects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2800 words)
The art of metamorphosis, Transfiguration is the changing of the form and appearance of an object, and sometimes, the conjuring and creation of objects.
Defence Against the Dark Arts is taught from the first year to the fifth, with the option of an N.E.W.T. course in the sixth and seventh years.
As Defence Against the Dark Arts teachers left the school, Snape regularly reapplied for the position, to be constantly denied, in what he assumed was Dumbledore's fear of relapse.
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