Laughing curse

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Laughing curse

Thelaughing curse^[1] (incantation unknown) was acurse that could induce uncontrollable laughter in the victim, causing to them experience laughing fits that they could not naturally break from.^[2] This curse could be cast upon objects and spread via touch.^[1][3]

History[]

This curse was transmitted to individuals atSt Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries in the1990–1991 school year via acursed CD case that was sent toJacob as a get-well gift,^[1] by theHealerBurke who was secretly working forR within the hospital as an inside agent.^[4] Prior the unleashing of the curse,Merula Snyde warnedJacob's sibling that something bad was going to happen at the hospital and that it would be "no laughing matter",^[2] leading them to suspect that she was working forR.^[1] The curse first affected Jacob,Penny Haywood (a student on work experience) andHealerMadamMiriam Strout at Jacob's bedside, much to their sibling's confusion.^[2]

This caused Strout to become bedridden, making the hospital become disorderly as a result, since she was unable to work and tend to her patients. The victims' health did not appear to decline but the healers were unable to feed them. Jacob's sibling andChiara Lobosca first thought the curse could have been spread viapumpkin juice contaminated withAlihotsy Draught, after searching the hospital ward, but afterProfessor Snape analysed a bottle of it given to Jacob, he found no traces of thepotion. Eventually, with the help of a mysteriouswhite swanPatronus in the hospital, they realised it was the cursed CD case, withTalbott Winger pointing out that the curse was spread by touch, with them not to touch the box.^[1]

Jacob's sibling, accompanied withCorey Hayden, then took the cursed CD case toProfessor Flitwick to break the complex curse,^[1] but after trying to destroy the case with theExpulso Curse, he too became a victim of the laughing curse, making Jacob's sibling realise the case wasmagically protected, and thatMuggle means had to be used destroy it to break the curse.^[3] They then went to theMuggle Studies Professor,Arif Sikander for help.^[3]

Professor Sikander and the students decided a Muggle appliance had to be used to destroy the CD, with them deciding to use amagically-poweredmicrowave to do the trick, in theMuggle Studies Classroom. The microwave destroyed the CD and broke the curse, freeing all of its victims. Those whose throats were sore from the curse were treated withlozenges.^[5]

Appearances[]

• Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery(First appearance)

Notes and references[]

See also[]

• Laughing Potion
• Laugh-inducing Potion
• Cheering Charm