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'''''A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration''''' is a text book on [[Transfiguration]] by [[Emeric Switch]]. It was a required textbook for [[Transfiguration]] classes for first <ref name="PS5">''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'' - Chapter 5 (''Diagon Alley'')</ref> and second year <ref name="CS4">''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'' - Chapter 4 (''At Flourish and Blotts'')</ref> students at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]].
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'''''A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration''''' is a text book on [[Transfiguration]] by [[Emeric Switch]]. It was a required textbook for [[Transfiguration]] classes for [[First year|first]] <ref name="PS5">''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'' - Chapter 5 (''Diagon Alley'')</ref> and [[Second year|second year]] <ref name="CS4">''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'' - Chapter 4 (''At Flourish and Blotts'')</ref> students at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]].
   
Before [[Ginevra Weasley|Ginny Weasley]]'s [[1992|first year]] at Hogwarts, [[Lucius Malfoy]] managed to slip [[Tom Riddle's Diary]] into her second-hand copy of the book in [[Flourish and Blotts]], leading to the re-opening of the [[Chamber of Secrets]] in that term. <ref name="CS4" />
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Before [[Ginevra Weasley|Ginny Weasley]]'s [[1992–1993 school year|first year]] at Hogwarts, [[Lucius Malfoy]] managed to slip [[Tom Riddle's Diary]] into her second-hand copy of the book in [[Flourish and Blotts]], leading to the re-opening of the [[Chamber of Secrets]] in that term. <ref name="CS4" />
   
 
==Behind the scenes==
 
==Behind the scenes==

Revision as of 00:32, 30 September 2010

A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration is a text book on Transfiguration by Emeric Switch. It was a required textbook for Transfiguration classes for first [1] and second year [2] students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Before Ginny Weasley's first year at Hogwarts, Lucius Malfoy managed to slip Tom Riddle's Diary into her second-hand copy of the book in Flourish and Blotts, leading to the re-opening of the Chamber of Secrets in that term. [2]

Behind the scenes

  • The book's cover is brown in the film, but violet in the first game.

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Chapter 5 (Diagon Alley)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Chapter 4 (At Flourish and Blotts)
Transfiguration (class)
COS Vera Verto demo
Branches of Transfiguration Transformation · Vanishment · Conjuration · Untransfiguration
Notable practitioners Circe · Emeric Switch · Falco Aesalon · Mirabella Plunkett · Thaddeus Thurkell
Professors Albus Dumbledore · Minerva McGonagall · Charles Rookwood · Matilda Weasley
Textbooks A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration · Intermediate Transfiguration · A Guide to Advanced Transfiguration
Transfiguration spells taught at Hogwarts
Colour Change Charm (Colovaria) · Change of hair colour and style (Crinus Muto) · Hardening Charm (Duro) · Mending Charm (Reparo) · Partial Vanishment · Reparifarge · Softening Charm (Spongify) · Switching Spell · Vanishing Spell (Evanesco)
Conjuring Spells Bird-Conjuring Charm (Avis) · Inanimatus Conjurus Spell · Bouquet Spell (Orchideous) · Snake Summons Spell (Serpensortia)
Transforming Spells Animal to water goblet (Vera Verto) · Armadillo to Pillow · Bowling Ball to Balloon · Beetle into Button · Cauldron to badger · Cat to cauldron (Felifors) · Cauldron Cakes to Cabbages · Chair to cat · Cross-Species Switches · Desk Into Pig · Fairy Cakes to Fairies · Feather Duster to Ferret · Ferret to Feather Duster · Gobstone to butterfly · Goldfinch to Golden Snitch · Flobberworm to Fritter · Gnomes to Lawn Gnomes · Guinea fowl to guinea pig · Gobstone to Skunk · Hedgehog to pincushion · King to Rook · Lovebird to Love Note · Match to needle · Meddling Man to Monkey · Mice to Snuffboxes · Owl to Opera Glasses (Strigiforma) · Pawn to Queen · Porcupine to Pin Cushion (Hystrifors) · Puffskein to Paperweight · Rubbish to Raccoon Dog · Small Child to Rat · Small object to dragon (Draconifors) · Snail to Teapot · Target to bird (Avifors) · Target to matchbox (Flintifors) · Target to rabbit (Lapifors) · Teacup into Gerbil · Teacup to Rat · Teapot to Tortoise · Thimble to Thestral · Toad to Toadstool · Tortoise to Trumpet · White rabbits to slippers