Emeric Switch

Professor 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.

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

 * Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
 * Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
 * Harry Potter: The Exhibition
 * The Making of Harry Potter
 * Pottermore

Notes and references
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