A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration

A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration is a text book on Transfiguration by Emeric Switch. It was a required textbook for Transfiguration classes for first and second year students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Before Ginny Weasley's first year at Hogwarts, Lucius Malfoy managed to slip Tom Riddle's diary into her second-hand copy of the book in Flourish and Blotts, leading to the re-opening of the Chamber of Secrets in that term.

Behind the scenes

 * The book's cover is brown in the film, but violet in the first game
 * The spells contained in the book are possibly Beetle Buttons, Avifors, Match to Needle, Fero Veto, Switching spell, Snail to Teapot, Rabbit Slippers, Mice to Snuffboxes and Badgering

Appearances

 * Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
 * Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
 * Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) (PS 2 version)
 * Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
 * Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
 * Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
 * Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)

Notes and references
Manuel de métamorphose à l'usage des débutants Руководство по трансфигурации для начинающих