Type: Charm
Pronunciation: al-LOH-ha-MOHR-ah
Description: Used to open and unlocked doors: it can unseal doors upon which the Locking Spell has been cast although it is possible to bewitch doors to resist the spell
Seen/Mentioned: Used by Hermione Granger in 1991 to allow her and her friends to access the Third-floor corridor at her school, which was at the time forbidden, she used it again two years later to free Sirius's cell in her teachers' prison room.
Etymology: The incantation is derived from the West African Sidiki dialect used in geomancy; it means 'friendly to thieves," as stated by the author in testimony during a court case.
Notes: Whilst in the first book, when the spell is cast the lock or door must be tapped once, in the fifth, a healer simply points her wand at the door to cast it, and on Pottermore the wand motion is seen as a backward 'S'.
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