A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration
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pre. 1991 |
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Hogwarts textbook |
- "The ideal starting point for every student of Transfiguration."
- —Advert at Flourish and Blotts.[src]
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. A copy of this book costs 1 Galleon at Flourish and Blotts.[3]
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Contents
- Avifors (possibly)
- Badgering (possibly)
- Beetle Buttons (possibly)
- Match to needle (possibly)
- Mice to Snuffboxes (possibly)
- Rabbit Slippers (possibly)
- Reparifarge[3]
- Snail to Teapot (possibly)
- Switching Spell (probably)[4]
- Vera Verto (possibly)
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
Added by Starstuff- 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
- ↑ The hand for this is shown on Pottermore, hence it's likely that this is one of the spells included. This also explains how Hermione would know about them.
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| Professors: Albus Dumbledore · Minerva McGonagall | |||||
| Textbooks: A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration · Intermediate Transfiguration · A Guide to Advanced Transfiguration | |||||
| Known practitioners: Emeric Switch · Circe · Falco Aesalon · Mirabella Plunkett · Thaddeus Thurkell · | |||||
| Transfiguration spells studied at Hogwarts: Chair to cat · Match to needle · Snail to Teapot · Teacup to Rat · Switching Spell · Transforming Spell · Avifors Spell · Mice to Snuffboxes · Beetle Buttons · Rabbit Slippers · Teapot to tortoise · Draconifors Spell · Lapifors Spell · Vanishing Spell · Vera Verto · Owl to opera glasses · Guinea fowl to guinea pig · Hedgehog to pincushion · Small Child to Rat · Meddling Man to Monkey | |||||
| Branches of Transfiguration: Transformation · Vanishment · Conjuration · Untransfiguration | |||||
