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"Professor McGonagall watched them turn a mouse into a snuffbox - points were given for how pretty the snuffbox was, but taken away if it had whiskers."
— The Transfiguration first-year final exam in 1992[src]

Mice to Snuffboxes[4][2] (incantation unknown) was a transforming spell that transfigured mice into snuffboxes.[1] When performed incorrectly, the snuffbox might grow whiskers.[1] This spell was taught in first[1] and third-year[2] Transfiguration classes at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

History[]

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A mouse having been turned into a snuffbox with this spell

During the 1986–1987 school year at Hogwarts, Professor Minerva McGonagall taught third-years how to perform this spell in Transfiguration class.[2]

During the 1988–1989 school year, Professor McGonagall once again taught third-years this Transfiguration spell, and a few mice managed to get loose. Jacob's sibling and Jae Kim helped her find them and tidy up the classroom.[5]

During the 1991–1992 school year, this spell was taught to first-years in Transfiguration class, and the practical end-of-year exam concerned the correct casting of this spell.[1]

Behind the scenes[]

  • In Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, the wand movements for this spell and Vera Verto are identical in their Transfiguration lessons, however, the game files identify only the movement for this spell to be correct, whereas the movement for the latter is in fact an entirely different movement.

Appearances[]

Notes and references[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 16 (Through the Trapdoor)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Chapter 9 (The Vault of Fear) - Transfiguration Lesson "Mice to Snuffbox"
  3. Pottermore
  4. 4.0 4.1 Harry Potter Trading Card Game
  5. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, "AN ENCHANTED KISS" Achievement
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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