Emeric Switch
Biographical information
Died	Before the 1990s (possibly)
Title(s)	Professor[1]
Physical information
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Affiliation
Occupation	Author

[Source]

Professor^[1] Emeric Switch was the author of A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration, a book required in first-year Transfiguration classes at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He had a portrait hung at Hogwarts Castle.^[1]

Behind the scenesEdit

• Switch may have passed away sometime prior to the 1990s as many portraits hung at Hogwarts Castle depict deceased individuals.

EtymologyEdit

To switch is to exchange one thing with another; could be extended to transfiguration, changing one form into another.

AppearancesEdit

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First mentioned)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) (Name seen on wood panelling)
• Harry Potter: The Exhibition (Appears in portrait(s))
• The Making of Harry Potter (Appears in portrait(s))
• Pottermore (Mentioned only)

Notes and referencesEdit

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