Fire was rooted in the most primitive and mysterious power deep within the human heart. Perhaps it was the most direct fantasy people had of supernatural abilities—fire.
No wizard could resist the temptation of controlling fire.
Not even the big names.
Dumbledore loved the feeling of controlling fire, and so he had created a spell like Fire-Making Spell.
Grindelwald preferred to give other spells the properties of fire. Thus, the Shield Charm became the Fireshield Charm, a Gas Stove spell.
Voldemort tended to prefer shaping fire into the forms of other creatures, like a snake, giving it greater aggression and versatility.
Anton, of course, liked fire too.
As a Master who had studied the power of the human mind in depth, how could he not think about the thing that could most easily stir the magic of the mind?
Turning Lumos into a blazing sun was one interesting variation.
The power of the mind was a fascinating thing.
When everyone took the flames before them for fire, it didn't matter what they really were. They could naturally resist them with spells that countered fire, provided their magic was strong enough.
And the most remarkable thing was that, although the spells wizards cast still seemed to have the same effects as ordinary fire-resisting magic, they had actually changed into Counter-Curses targeting this unusual kind of flame.
That was the most remarkable part of the Magical Theory of Wizards as Gods: mind over matter, will determined everything, and the rest was left to magic itself.
The spell Anton cast wasn't the Fire Charm he had named Incendio. On the contrary, it was a Full Body-Bind Curse.
The flames burned a wizard's will. Once a wizard completely lost the will to resist, they would be Petrified and sink into the flames, as if