- "The Dark Arts are many, varied, ever-changing, and eternal.
Fighting them is like fighting a many-headed monster, which,
each time a neck is severed, sprouts a head even fiercer and
cleverer than before. You are fighting that which is unfixed,
mutating, indestructible." - —Professor Severus Snape to a
Defence Against the Dark Arts class[src] The Dark Arts, also
known as Dark Magic, refers to any type of magic that is mainly
used to cause harm. The Dark Arts encompass many spells and
actions ranging from using the Unforgivable Curses to brewing
harmful or poisonous potions to breeding Dark creatures such as
Basilisks, and its practise is generally illegal. Practitioners
are referred to as Dark wizards or witches, the most prominent
and powerful of whom was Lord Voldemort. His followers, known as
Death Eaters, also practised the Dark Arts. Nature of the Dark
ArtsEdit - Dumbledore: "You call it 'greatness,' what you have
been doing, do you?" - Riddle: "Certainly. I have experimented;
I have pushed the boundar