Professor[1] 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.[1]
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 Sorcerer's Stone (First mentioned)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) (Name seen on wood panelling)
- Harry Potter: The Exhibition (Appears in portrait(s))
- The Making of Harry Potter (Appears in portrait(s))
- Pottermore (Mentioned only)
Notes and references[]
Ædificium Oriens · Apothecary department · Book of Monster's Repair Workshop · Care of Magical Creatures classroom · Cauldron cupboard · First Year written exams classroom · Gargoyle Corridor · Ghoul Studies classroom · The Grindylow Lagoon · Horace Slughorn's first office · Laundry · Lost Wands · Lower Art Room · Rolanda Hooch's office · Serpentine Corridor · Stink Bomb Store · Study Hall | ||
Emeric Switch · Iris Pius · Paracelsus · Portrait of an old man · Reginald Oddpick · Sedley Smirkpaltter · Thomas More · Tobias Misslethorpe · Wilfred the Wistful |
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Professors: Albus Dumbledore · Minerva McGonagall | |||||
Textbooks: A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration · Intermediate Transfiguration · A Guide to Advanced Transfiguration | |||||
Known practitoners: 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 |