Beetle Buttons
Incantation	Unknown (possibly "Beetle Buttons")
Type	Transfiguration
Hand Movement	Touch beetle with wand (possibly)[1]
Effect	Transforms beetles into buttons

[Source]

Beetle Buttons is a Transforming spell that transfigures a beetle into a button.^[2] The second-year students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry learned how to perform this spell at the start of term.^[3]

On 3 September, 1992, the trio practiced this spell in Transfiguration class. Harry Potter was unable to turn his beetle into a button because it kept running away from his wand. Ron Weasley also had no success, due to his broken wand, which released foul-smelling smoke that obscured his vision and made him accidentally crush his beetle. He had to ask Professor McGonagall for a replacement. Hermione Granger, on the other hand, created a "handful of perfect coat buttons," which she showed to Ron and Harry at lunch, much to Ron's chagrin.^[3]

Appearances Edit

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter Trading Card Game
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)

Notes and references Edit

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