Classroom 1B

"Transfiguration Classroom. Treat inanimate objects respectfully. They may be your classmates."

—Notice outside the classroom.^[src]

Classroom 1B ^[1] (also known as the Transfiguration Classroom) is where Transfiguration class is taught. The classroom is located on the ground floor around the Middle Courtyard. The classroom itself is big, surrounded by high windows, has four rows of three desks, and still has enough room for several cages and bookshelves, two chalkboards, and a desk for Professor McGonagall. Several candlesticks stand lit behind McGonagall's desk.

Curriculum and classroom activities[]

The classes often copy complex notes and notions and they often practise new Transfigurations and Untransfigurations. They learn how to turn a match into a needle, beetles to buttons, a mouse into a snuffbox, an animal into a water goblet, a statue into a dragon, a statue into a bird, a statue into a rabbit, a book into a mouse, white rabbits into slippers, a teapot into a tortoise, a hedgehog into a pincushion, a rock into a Labrador, guinea fowl into guinea pigs, an owl into a pair of opera glasses, etc. The students also practise Switching Spells, Vanishing Spells (on vertebrates and invertebrates), and Conjuring Spells.

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The classroom in 1994

Behind the scenes[]

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The building in the first two films

In the first two film adaptations, the classroom is shown to be on the south side of the Middle Courtyard.But in Prisoner of Azkaban and the subsequent film adaptations, it is moved to the east side of the courtyard, since the former building is replaced by the Dark and Astronomy Towers.
In the first two film adaptations, the classroom 1B is actually the Chapter House of Durham Cathedral
In film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, a different set was used to portray this classroom. But in the video game adaption it resumes its layout from the first and second film and the fifth video game.
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The classroom
When Minerva McGonagall taught the students to dance in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the room used to portray the classroom was the one used to portray the hospital wing in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Appearances[]

Notes and references[]

↑ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (video game) - PS2 version

Hogwarts Castle
Locations on the ground floor
Astronomy Tower courtyard · Bean Bonus Room · Boys' toilets · Caretaker's office · Central tower courtyard · Chamber off the Great Hall · Chamber of Reception · Classroom 11 · Classroom 1B · Corridor off the Entrance Hall · Entrance Hall · Great Hall · Ground Floor Corridor · Herbology Store · House Point Ceremony Chamber · Marble Staircase · Middle Courtyard · Northern Courtyard · Northern Courtyard Annex · North Tower courtyard · Out Of Bounds · Oxford Corridor · Paved grounds · Portrait Room · Staffroom · Storage Cupboard · Storeroom · Storeroom courtyard · Suspension Bridge · Temporary Defense Against the Dark Arts Classroom · Transfiguration department · Viaduct Courtyard · Viaduct Entrance · Viaduct · Viaduct Courtyard checkpoint towers · West Tower courtyard · Suspension Bridge foyer · The Quad
Portraits, statues and other artwork located on the ground floor
Brian Gagwilde · Circe · Gargoyles at the staff room entrance · George von Rheticus · Giffard Abbott · Glanmore Peakes · Godric Gryffindor · Google Stump · Greta Catchlove · Henry Bumblepuft · Lonely Male Gargoyle · Lonely Male Gargoyle's friend · Medieval couple · Merwyn the Malicious · Mirabella Plunkett · Miserable Female Gargoyle · Norvel Twonk · Old Posh Baron · People watching Quidditch · Staring Portrait · Professor Swoopstikes · Temeritus Shanks · Timothy the Timid · Violet · Architect of Hogwarts · First Headmaster of Hogwarts · Jocunda Sykes · Sarcastic Male Gargoyle · Portrait of a girl with flowers · Wizard with a walrus moustache

[ps_ps2-1] Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (video game) - PS2 version

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