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"The ideal starting point for every student of Transfiguration."

A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration is a textbook 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. A copy of this book costs 1 Galleon at Flourish and Blotts.^[3]

History

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 and red in Pottermore.
In the PS1 version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, this book is titled A Beginner's Guide to Transformation.

Appearances

A begginers guide to transfiguration! — The book in the films

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) (PS2 version)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) (As "A Beginner's Guide to Transformation")
Pottermore
Harry Potter Trading Card Game

Notes and references

↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Chapter 5 (Diagon Alley)
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Chapter 4 (At Flourish and Blotts)
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Pottermore
↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)

Transfiguration (class)

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

[PS5-1] Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Chapter 5 (Diagon Alley)

[CS4-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Chapter 4 (At Flourish and Blotts)

[pottermore-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Pottermore

[PSf-4] Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)

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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]].It involves 10 chapters which involve an introduction in Transfiguration, Transfiguration Basics plus(match to needle transfigurations), Inanimate to Vertebrate (2 chapters)and Vertebrate to Inanimate. Then it includes different exams for 1st and 2nd year students as well as Cross-Gender switching (animals)-(humans)in 2nd year.
+'''''A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration''''' is a textbook 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]].
+A copy of this book costs 1 [[Galleon]] at [[Flourish and Blotts]].<ref name="pottermore">''[[Pottermore]]''</ref>
-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" />
+==Contents==
+*''[[Reparifarge]]''<ref name="pottermore">''[[Pottermore]]''</ref>
-== Behind the Scenes ==
+*[[Snail to Teapot]]<ref name="PSf">''{{PSF}}</ref>
-The book's cover is brown in the film, but violet in the first game.
+==History==
+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==
+*The book's cover is brown in the film but violet in the first game and red in ''[[Pottermore]]''.
+*In the [[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)|PS1 version]] of ''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'', this book is titled ''A Beginner's Guide to Transformation''.
 ==Appearances==
+[[File:A begginers guide to transfiguration!.jpg|thumb|left|The book in the films]]
 *''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'' {{1st}}
 *''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)]]''
-*''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)]]'' (PS 2 version)
+*''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)]]'' {{C|PS2 version}}
 *''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]''
 *''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)]]''
-*''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)]]'' {{comment|As "''A Beginner's Guide to Transformation''"}}
+*''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)]]'' {{C|As "''A Beginner's Guide to Transformation''"}}
+*''[[Pottermore]]''
+*''[[Harry Potter Trading Card Game]]''
 ==Notes and references==
-{{reflist}}
+{{Reflist}}
 {{Transfiguration}}
+[[es:Guía de transformación para principiantes]]
 [[fr:Manuel de métamorphose à l'usage des débutants]]
+[[it:Guida pratica alla Trasfigurazione per principianti]]
+[[ru:Руководство по трансфигурации для начинающих]]
 [[Category:Books|Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration, A]]