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A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration
Publication information
Author	Emeric Switch
Released	pre. 1991
Subject	Transfiguration
Copies	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 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]

ContentsEdit

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]

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.

Transfiguration (class)

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

A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration

Publication information
Author	Emeric Switch
Released	pre. 1991
Subject	Transfiguration
Copies	Hogwarts textbook