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- "Today's class will be sure to brighten your day. We'll be learning Lumos Solem, a spell that creates a blinding flash of sunlight! So be sure to have sunglasses at the ready. It's for your own protection. I have prepared a lecture on Lumos Solem. I hope you find it illuminating!"
- — Professor Flitwick to his seventh-year students[src]
The Sunlight Charm[3] (Lumos Solem),[1][2] also known as the Lumos Solem Spell,[4] was a charm[2] used to produce a blinding flash of sunlight. As Devil's Snare hated sunlight and heat, this particular light-creation spell was very effective towards subduing it.[1] Wearing sunglasses was advised when practising this spell to protect one's eyes from the blinding light of the spell.[4][2] Specific wrist motions could modulate the volume of light the spell produced.[5]
History
The Sunlight Charm used in Herbology.
During the 1990–1991 school year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Professor Filius Flitwick taught his seventh-year students how to cast this charm in Charms class.[2]
Jacob's sibling's wand being lifted into the air with the Sunlight Charm still being cast
During Rubeus Hagrid's potluck, Molly Weasley suggested using the Sunlight Charm to brighten the Great Hall up, and when Ismelda Murk realised it was no longer raining, and the party was moved outside, Jacob's sibling cast the spell to create temporary good weather for the people attending. However, as they would have had to hold onto their wand for the entire potluck, Minerva McGonagall magically lifted their wand into the air, and the charm continued to stay cast.[6]
This charm was also covered in first-year Herbology classes at Hogwarts, in order to teach students how to basically defend themselves against the Devil's Snare.[4]
During the Calamity in the late 2010s or early 2020s, Minister for Magic Hermione Granger hosted a practical class on localised casting of this charm, which was attended by a Calamity Investigator working for the Statute of Secrecy Task Force. As part of the class, Hermione demonstrated that the volume of light produced could be modulated with specific wrist motions, which the Calamity Investigator used to improve their use of the Greenhouse Charm.[5]
Known practitioners
![Filius Flitwick[2]](/wiki/File:Filius_Flitwick_profile.jpg "Filius Flitwick profile.jpg (21 KB)")
![Molly Weasley[6]](/wiki/File:Molly_Weasley_Deathly_Hallows.jpg "Molly Weasley Deathly Hallows.jpg (734 KB)")
![Jacob's sibling[2]](/wiki/File:Jacob%27s_sibling_generic.png "Jacob's sibling generic.png (175 KB)")
![Pomona Sprout[4]](/wiki/File:Professor_Sprout.jpg "Professor Sprout.jpg (90 KB)")
![Hermione Granger[5]](/wiki/File:Hermione_Granger.jpg "Hermione Granger.jpg (826 KB)")
Etymology
Derived from two words; the Latin lumen, meaning "light", and the Latin sol, meaning "of the sun", indicating that this spell produces "light of the sun".
Behind the scenes
- "Devil's Snare, Devil's Snare. It's deadly fun... but will sulk in the sun! That's it! Devil's Snare hates sunlight! Lumos Solem!"
- — Hermione Granger on the weakness of Devil's Snare[src]
Hermione Granger using the spell to free Ron Weasley from the Devil's Snare
- Hermione Granger uses this spell to free Ron Weasley from the Devil's Snare in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.[1] The spell is not used in the book, in which she instead frees Harry and Ron with Bluebell Flames.[7] This is highly unusual in that Hermione used a spell that was six years ahead of year. That being said, the movie came first--making it such an advanced spell seems to have been an afterthought. It could also be that Flitwick is teaching a more advanced version of the spell.
- In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, this spell, as well as its use against Devil's Snare, is taught in a first-year Herbology class.[4] While the book states that Professor Sprout only discussed Devil's Snare in class but not practically handled it,[7] there is nothing to say that this spell is not taught as part of the first-year Herbology curriculum. A possibility is that it was taught to first-years so that they would be well practised and prepared by the time that they were allowed to handle the Devil's Snare.
- Additionally in LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, this spell also functions as an upgrade to Lumos, replacing the spell after it is unlocked.
Appearances
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) (First appearance) (Non-canonical appearance)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
- Harry Potter: The Creature Vault (Mentioned only)
- Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
- Harry Potter: Wizards Unite (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter: Magic Awakened (Seen on Career Research)
- The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (First identified as Sunlight Charm)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film), Chapter 27 (Through the Trapdoor)
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 7, Chapter 30 (It All Falls Down) - Charms Lesson "Lumos Solem"
- ↑ The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (see this webpage)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Side Quest "HAGRID'S ENCHANTED POTLUCK"
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 16 (Through the Trapdoor)
