Why didn't obliviate spell work on wizards? [duplicate]

I have just watched first part of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and I can't understand the final scene. Rain influences everybody's memory except wizards. Is there is a spell which works against Obliviate spell? If there is no such spell, then why didn't it work on Jakob Kowalski?

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Best Answer

There was no spell. It was actually the venom of Swooping Evil which only erases the bad memories. Since Credence's attack created bad memories for everyone especially for no-maj, that venom wiped it out from everyone's mind affected by that rain.

There is no such thing that it'd only affect muggles. It can affect wizards as well as pointed out in this answer and this one. Queenie uses an umbrella to come out in the rain and the rest stay under the roof of that subway.

The reason why it didn't work on Jacob Kowalski, because the venom doesn't really obliviate everything except bad memories and he didn't have any as he said in Fantastic Beasts: the Crimes of Grindelwald.

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Does the Obliviate spell work on Wizards?

In Harry Potter, the spell does also work on wizards (Lockhart f.e.) Its wasnt obliviate though, its Swooping Evil venom distilled and dispersed into the rain clouds by the thunderbird, due to obliviate not being a feasible and plausible option.

Can Obliviate spell be undone?

In the movie it's obliviate but in the book it's not because she alters her parents memory so they go to australia and forget her but she can reverse it. Obliviate cannot be reversed.

How does Obliviate work Fantastic Beasts?

Earlier in the movie Newt said the extract would help people forget bad things \u2014 similar to the way the "obliviate" spell works. Frank did this by presumably mixing the Swooping Evil liquid in with the rain, so anyone touched by the rain automatically had their memory modified. Courtesy Warner Bros.

Why did Dumbledore give Jacob Kowalski a wand?

As such, it was regarded as a "fake wand". Dumbledore let Jacob keep his wand after Grindelwald's plan to cheat in the election in Bhutan was thwarted, saying he could think of no one more deserving of it.

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