Wards

[danajsparks.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering where the idea of magical protective wards comes from. It's a fairly ubiquitous concept in HP fan fiction, but I'm not finding anything about wards in the books. There is the blood protection on 4 Privet Drive, but I don't think that's ever called a ward.

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[danajsparks.livejournal.com]

Yeah I've been doing word searches as well. I had done a search for "protective" and didn't get any hits for "protective charms/enchantments/spells" except in book 7.

However, searching for just "enchantments" gave me some hits in the earlier books.

Hermione says in PoA, for instance, "The castle’s protected by more than walls, you know. There are all sorts of enchantments on it, to stop people entering by stealth. You can’t just Apparate in here."

And, in HBP, Dumbledore lifts the "anti-apparation enchantment."

So, I guess there are a few examples of magic in canon that may be conceptually similar to fanon wards.