The Harry Potter Compendium
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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 final exam[src]

Mice to Snuffboxes is a Transforming spell that Transfigures mice into snuffboxes. The First year students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry learn how to perform it and the practical exam concerns this spell[1].

When performed incorrectly, the snuffbox might grow whiskers[1].

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Notes and references[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - Chapter 16 (Through the Trapdoor)


Transfiguration (class)
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
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