10 ‘Harry Potter’ Spells We Need in Our Real Lives

There is very little the collected powers of your mind, your willpower, and your smart phone cannot accomplish. But there are still a few times when it’d be nice to have a little magical assistance, right? If any of these spells from the wizarding world of Harry Potter were real, we’d use them every day.

1. Accio (the summoning spell)

Accio phone. Accio moisturizer. Accio sweater buried somewhere in this room. Accio love life?

2. Depulso (the banishing spell)

For when fuckbois dare approach.

3. Engorgio (engorgement charm)

Not saying there are any body parts on ourselves or our partners we’d want any different from how mother nature built them (all bodies are beautiful!), but also…it’d be cool just to try, right? Just to try. Just to see what it’s like. YOLO.

4. The hair-thickening charm

The Slytherins may use this as a hex, but if applied correctly it’s the magical shortcut to a bouncy mane. And there are things biotin just can’t do!

5. Legilimens (mind-reading)

This is the kind of power that corrupts; the kind of power no one should have. But imagine: Do you like me? If you don’t text me back I’ll just read your mind… Plus, it’d be so easy to do holiday shopping if we could just psychically know what all our friends want.

6. Mimblewimble (tongue-tying curse)

Him: Women make less than men over the course of their careers because of their own choices.You: Um, no, it’s the patriarchy!Him: You’re not being rational. Let me explain why—You: mimblewimbleHim: —asjhdkfghjkdbjgkdsjkhsjhfknfdjncfdkjfhg

7. Obliviate (memory charm)

There are nights we do things that we’d rather forget, and—you know what? This is just tequila. Never mind!

8. The Undetectable Extension Charm

When Hermione used magic on her bag, she packed it full of survival necessities. We’d use it to fit a hair dryer, a pair of comfortable shoes, a flask, a sandwich, three lipsticks, some condoms, and a big bottle of sparkling water in a teeny evening clutch. Survival necessities!

9. Draconifors (it turns you into a dragon)

Self-explanatory. Would love to be a dragon.

10. Expecto Patronum

Obviously, this is the one we want most of all.

(Major props to the HP fandom for compiling this very handy list of every single Harry Potter spell.)

Related: I Feel Like an Idiot Because I’ve Never Read the Harry Potter Books