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- "You'll be starting small, just matches into needles and that sort of thing—"
- —Percy Weasley[src]
This spell was used to transform a match into a needle[1]. It is one of the simplest transfiguration spells[2].
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Nature and teaching
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Due to its being the simplest spell of transfiguration, this is the first spell taught in transfiguration class (after they take many complicated notes)[1].
It seems, however, that even beginning students have trouble with it; by the end of their first lesson, only Hermione Granger had made a substantial improvement to her match, and Professor McGonagall proudly showed the class how it had turned silver and was rather pointy[1]. She later gave the class "a pile of homework", presumably on the subject of this spell[1].
PractitionersEdit
Behind the scenesEdit
- Morag tried to light her match, and was scolded by Professor McGonagall[3]
AppearancesEdit
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Chapter Eight - The Potions Master)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Chapter Seven - The Sorting Hat)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
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| 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 | |||||
