[quote=@Feisty-Pants] o.o Um...nowhere near that. There's specific rules, wand movements, and the like. Nothing like blowing up a planet though. ._. The banned spells are ones that kill one person, cause a person great pain, mentally control someone...etc etc etc. [/quote] Well heres the thing. Why isn't there a way to protect from those 'forbidden spells' like in almost every other magic based lore? My problem is just how... inconsistent... the potter universe is with its spell lore. And going back to the start, there is no 'cost' to casting a spell. You could just spit out death ones back to back like a machine gun and not feel any ill effects until you just got tired of flicking your arm. And well, spells used for plot convenience even though they clearly contradict previous lore and lots of fun little inconsistencies and that stuff which confuses me and lots and lots of logic gaps and everything. One example of a logic gap is that there is that liquid luck potion that does scary phenomenal things, and you can make this thing in your back yard. Why isn't that just made, stockpiled, and turned into pills or something, and/or why don't people just make this stuff and everything? And what makes it so that you can't make a spell that does the same thing, why does it have to be a potion? Basic things like that are what I'm confused about if that makes sense.