Magical Spell Levels

Harry Potter was once again sitting through a theoretical charms lecture, he had turned his head and was looking out the window, and wistfully remembering the last Quiddich game this was the game in which Harry had foiled the plans of Draco and his goons. This had lead to his current predicament, Professor Flitwick had mentioned that the Patronus Charm was a perfect example of an Emotion driven spell and Hermione had immediately sprung on the divergence from the topic to inquire about the different spell levels.

"Well Miss Granger there are three specific Levels or types of Spells, although many spells will cross the barriers as the caster learns more."

"The three levels are Standard, Variable, and Emotional. Can anyone give me an example of what they think a standard spell is?"

Many student shouted suggestions, Ron Weasley took it as a competition of who could shout the loudest and both Dean and Seamus joined in, but the majority of the students went with the safe bet of the rather simple light spell Lumos

"Yes very good in its base form the Lumos spell is an example of a Standard spell, whomever casts it will create the same beam of light for the same level of power"

"Base level sir?"

"Yes Miss Granger as you become more proficient with the spell you will be able to manipulate the spell to create different types of light."

"Now a Variable spell if you please?"

This time the request was answered with silence, until.

"Incendio"

"Yes very good Mr. Potter, now this is why you must be careful when casting the Incendio spell, without proper preparation you could very well end up over casting with this particular spell."

"Now finally can someone give me an example of an Emotional Spell?"

Again many students started shouting, this time they all said the same thing

"Patronus charm" but there would be one other spell called out

"Riddikulus"

"Yes very good Mr. Longbottom the Riddikulus charm uses the rather unusual emotion of humour to force a Bogart to change it's shape, Well then now that we have seen some examples of the different spell levels How about I give you some more in-depth notes"

The professor proceeded to spend the rest of the class writing on the board explaining the various types of Spells and how one spell can be used in different ways.