{{Quote|'But,' said the Prime Minister breathlessly, watching his teacup chew on the corner of his next speech...|The Muggle Prime Minister is stunned by Fudge having turned his teacup into a gerbil.|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince}}
{{Quote|'But,' said the Prime Minister breathlessly, watching his teacup chew on the corner of his next speech...|The Muggle Prime Minister is stunned by Fudge having turned his teacup into a gerbil.|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince}}
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'''Teacup to gerbil''' (''incantation unknown'') is a [[Transforming spell]] that turns teacups into [[gerbil]]s. [[Minister for Magic]] [[Cornelius Fudge]] used this spell to prove himself to be a [[Wizardkind|wizard]] to the [[Prime Minister|Prime Minister of Muggles]].<ref name="hbp1">''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'', Chapter 1</ref>
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'''Teacup to gerbil''' (''incantation unknown'') is a [[Transforming spell]] that turns teacups into [[gerbil]]s. [[Minister for Magic]] [[Cornelius Fudge]] used this spell to prove himself to be a [[Wizardkind|wizard]] to the ''[[Prime Minister|Prime Minister of Muggles]]''.<ref name="hbp1">''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'', Chapter 1</ref>
The Prime Minister was stunned. Despite the evidence of his eyes, he tried for a time to convince himself that Cornelius Fudge was a hallucination. The continued presence of the gerbil was less easily explainable, but he gave it to his niece, in an attempt to rid himself of all reminders of the encounter.[1]