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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]].
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'''''A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration''''' is a textbook on [[Transfiguration]] by [[Emeric Switch]]. This textbook was used as an introduction to Transfiguration for young witches and wizards, it contained basic transformation spells.
   
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A copy of this book cost one [[Galleon]] at [[Flourish and Blotts]].<ref name="pottermore">''[[Pottermore]]''</ref>
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A copy of this book costs 1 [[Galleon]] at [[Flourish and Blotts]].<ref name="pottermore">''[[Pottermore]]''</ref>
   
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== History ==
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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" />
  
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It was a required textbook and as such was on the list of items needed by first years for [[Transfiguration]] classes in 1991 and 1992 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]].
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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" />
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==Known contents==
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*The book's cover is brown in the film, but violet in the first game and red in ''[[Pottermore]]''.
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*The book's cover is brown in the film but violet in the first game and red in ''[[Pottermore]]''.
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*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''.
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*The spells contained in the book are possibly [[Beetle Buttons]], [[Avifors]], [[Match to needle]], [[Fera Verto]], [[Switching Spell]], [[Snail to Teapot]], [[Rabbit Slippers]], [[Mice to Snuffboxes]] and [[Badgering]].
  
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[[File:A begginers guide to transfiguration!.jpg|thumb|left|The book in the films]]
 
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==Notes and references==
  
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[[es:Guía de transformación para principiantes]]
 
[[fr:Manuel de métamorphose à l'usage des débutants]]
  
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Revision as of 15:52, 13 December 2014

"The ideal starting point for every student of Transfiguration."
— Advert at Flourish and Blotts.[src]

A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration is a textbook on Transfiguration by Emeric Switch. This textbook was used as an introduction to Transfiguration for young witches and wizards, it contained basic transformation spells.

A copy of this book costs 1 Galleon at Flourish and Blotts.[1]

History

It was a required textbook and as such was on the list of items needed by first years for Transfiguration classes in 1991 and 1992 for first[2] and second year[3] 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.[3]

Known contents

Behind the scenes

Appearances

A begginers guide to transfiguration!

The book in the films

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pottermore
  2. ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Chapter 5 (Diagon Alley)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Chapter 4 (At Flourish and Blotts)
  4. ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
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
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