Binding/Fastening Magic

Binding or Fastening spells create chains or ropes to restrain someone or something.

References from the canon

• Dragon keepers used this magic to drive stakes into the ground to fasten the dragons to (GF19).
• The chair in the Court of Magical Law magically restrained the accused using ropes (GF30, OP8).
• Snape fired "thin, snakelike cords" from his wand to bind Remus Lupin in the Shrieking Shack (PA19).
• Pettigrew bound Harry to the tombstone of Tom Riddle with a binding spell (GF32).
• Charity Burbage was confined with invisible bindings at Malfoy Manor (DH1).
• A Death Eater bound Ron with magical ropes in the café (DH9).