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

In today's video I'm going to be discussing a topic that I saw requested in the comment

section below.

It's a topic that I've covered before but not very well, and today I want to do it justice.

We're going to be discussing spells, but not just any aspect of spells, we're going

to be discussing the visual component to a spell. Now there are all

sorts of spells and all kinds of different incantations, but one thing is for certain. The

colour of a spell always attracts a lot of attention. Voldemort's avada cadavera just wouldn't

be the same without that sinister-looking jet of green light emanating from his wand, and Norwood

Harry's bright red Expeleamus.

But what I want to discuss today is what do these different spell colours actually mean?

Are they simply arbitrary?

Or are we able to derive some sort of relationship between the colour of the spell and

the type of spell itself.

What is the underlying meaning behind these spell colors? I think that the most obvious and

sort of go-to answer to this relatively unaddressed question is something like green

spells are inherently dark in nature, red spells are inherently powerful in nature, and

white spells are inherently pure, good and passive in nature, to name a few.

And I agree with those sentiments, for the most part, however, I believe there is much more to

it than that, and I want to peel back the layers and uncover what it is that makes these spells,

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