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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 scenes

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

Etymology

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

Appearances

Notes and references

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Classrooms
Apothecary department · Class 102 · Class 104 · Class 107 · Class 99 · Classroom E-13 · Fairly small classroom · First year written exams classroom · Study Hall
Clubhouses
Dragon Clubhouse · Hippogriff Clubhouse · Secret Clubhouse · Sphinx Clubhouse
Corridors
Ædificium Oriens · Catwalks by the Quad battlements · Cloistered corridor · South Wing · West Tower corridor · West Wing
Halls and rooms
Astronomy Room · Ball Great Hall · Book of Monster's Repair Workshop · Duelling Hall · First Hogwarts graduating class portrait room · The Grindylow Lagoon · Jacob's room · Laundry · Lower Art Room · Peeves' Room · Quiet room · Room behind the mirror · Upper Castle Portrait Room
Offices
Albus Dumbledore's office · Horace Slughorn's first office · Rolanda Hooch's office
Portraits, statues and other artwork
Alastor Moody · Emeric Switch · Godfrey the Gormless · Iris Pius · Phillipus von Hohenheim · Reginald Oddpick · Sanctum statue · Sidley Smirk Platter · Thomas More · Tobias Misslethorpe · Mysterious girl · Triptych · Wilfred the Wistful
Staircases
Staircase to the West Tower battlements · Staircases that led somewhere else on Friday · Swivelling staircase
Storerooms
Cauldron cupboard · Cupboard · Gryffindor Quidditch team store cupboard · Records Room · Stink Bomb Store
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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