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Hey everyone, welcome to another instalment of Harry Potter Theory.

Have you ever wondered how spells are created?

Well, the answer is simpler than you might have guessed.

It's all thanks to a handful of extremely cunning witches and wizards who sought a problem in

their life and tried to create a magical solution. As we look through the historical records

of the wizarding world, we find no shortage of famous wizards and witches who have left

their mark on magic, and created spells that are still in use in modern times.

Today we're going to take a look at some of the most famous spells and their creators,

as we go over the history of magical inventors.

Let's get into it.

Badia Ali and Ben Copper. Ben Copper and his friend Badia Ali were both students

at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the mid-1980s. Although copper was sorted

into Gryffindor and Ali into House Ravenclaw, the two ended up creating a spell together.

This particular magical attack was an updated version of the traditional knockback jinx

that the students at Hogwarts had used for generations.

Named Flipendo Maxima, due to its greater effects, this particular spell might have actually

been quite dangerous

for the students, since it caused them to fall backwards, and oftentimes their heads would

bounce violently off the stone floors of the school. At a different time during her stay at

Hogwarts, Badiah Ali created another spell. This one summoned a dazzling meteor shower in the sky, and, as

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