Falco Aesalon
Biographical information
Born	Ancient Greece
Physical information
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Hair colour	Brown
Skin colour	White
Magical characteristics
Animagus	Falcon

[Source]

Falco Aesalon was a wizard who lived in Ancient Greece. Being able to transform into a falcon at will, he was the first recorded Animagus. For this, he was placed on a Chocolate Frog Card.^[1]

Etymology

Falco aesalon is the former scientific name of the European merlin, before it and the American merlin were reclassified to be the same species.^[2]

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (Mentioned on a Famous Wizard Card)

Notes and references

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

Animagi

Before Registration System

Falco Aesalon (Falcon) · Morgan le Fay (Bird) · Cliodna (Sea Bird)

Registered

Minerva McGonagall (Cat) · Unidentified witch (Cat) · Five unidentified individuals (Unknown)

Unregistered

James Potter (Stag) · Sirius Black (Dog) · Peter Pettigrew (Rat) · Rita Skeeter (Beetle)

Fictional Animagi

Babbitty (Rabbit)