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The lack of more "magitechnology" was a minor bummer. But it at least made sense in-setting due to the politics of the ministry of magic, who actively try to AVOID letting wizards mess around with anything invented in the past 100 years any more than is necessary.

There was also never really much description given to how one actually creates magical items other than potions (which themselves are not really crafted WITH magic as they are crafted out of magical items with some help from some other magical items). Which is strange. I mean, there ARE at least three classes that seem like they would be teaching this, from googling a list of hogwarts subjects, and one of them is apparently only briefly mentioned in some external book. At least from the DESCRIPTION of the classes.

Charms. Supposedly the class is centered around spells that give an object a new or different property. But most of the spells that were taught there are instantaneous effect spells and spells that wear off after a bit (i.e. a mending charm, the ever-famous wingardium leviosa, and a some curses that immobilize/make you dance, etc).

Transfiguration. Part of its description includes transforming the form/shape of an object. These changes are very drastic, but don't seem to really give the result any magical properties other than halfway-changes from non-living to living things not appearing to be particularly bothered with their incomplete state. Which itself is quite impressive, but which seems to mostly depend on what you are turning to what.

Alchemy (different from Potions). Not mentioned in the main seven books, and very little info on it other than it is an advanced class for 6th and 7th years which supposedly is something like a merging of techniques from transfiguration, potions, and possibly muggle chemistry.

But yeah, making magical items is something that we don't see brought up much despite how many there are. There are clearly things like wand makers, and broom makers, and of course a ton of other things. If I had to guess from the description alone, charms would be the primary one, and for more advanced stuff you'd sort of mix together charms with transfiguration, and then add knowledge from the potions class.

We just don't see much in the way of spells that would be used in the making of such items. Even though the Weasely twins seem to specialize in them.
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