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Professor[1] Emeric Switch was a wizard, author and expert on Transfiguration.

Biography[]

Switch was the author of A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration.[2][3] This book was a required textbook for first-year and second-year Transfiguration classes at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.[2][3] He also contributed an article on the scientific aspects of Human Transfiguration to Transfiguration Today in 1926.[4]

A portrait of him hung at Hogwarts Castle.[1]

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Etymology[]

Emeric is a variant of Emmerich, which means "whole, universal". This could relate to him being able to do transfiguration, as he can wholly turn something into something universally else.

To switch is to exchange one thing with another; could be extended to transfiguration, changing one form into another.

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Unknown location within Hogwarts Castle
Classrooms
Apothecary department · Class 102 · Class 104 · Class 107 · Class 99 · Classroom E-13 · Fairly small classroom · First year written exams classroom · Study Hall
Clubhouses
Dragon Clubhouse · Hippogriff Clubhouse · Secret Clubhouse · Sphinx Clubhouse
Corridors
Ædificium Oriens · Catwalks by the Quad battlements · Cloistered corridor · South Wing · West Tower corridor · West Wing
Halls and rooms
Astronomy Room · Ball Great Hall · Book of Monster's Repair Workshop · Duelling Hall · First Hogwarts graduating class portrait room · The Grindylow Lagoon · Jacob's room · Laundry · Lower Art Room · Peeves' Room · Quiet room · Room behind the mirror · Upper Castle Portrait Room
Offices
Albus Dumbledore's office · Horace Slughorn's first office · Rolanda Hooch's office
Portraits, statues and other artwork
Alastor Moody · Emeric Switch · Godfrey the Gormless · Iris Pius · Phillipus von Hohenheim · Reginald Oddpick · Sanctum statue · Sidley Smirk Platter · Thomas More · Tobias Misslethorpe · Mysterious girl · Triptych · Wilfred the Wistful
Staircases
Staircase to the West Tower battlements · Staircases that led somewhere else on Friday · Swivelling staircase
Storerooms
Cauldron cupboard · Cupboard · Gryffindor Quidditch team store cupboard · Records Room · Stink Bomb Store
Transfiguration (class)
COS Vera Verto demo
Branches of Transfiguration Transformation · Vanishment · Conjuration · Untransfiguration
Notable practitioners Circe · Emeric Switch · Falco Aesalon · Mirabella Plunkett · Thaddeus Thurkell
Professors Albus Dumbledore · Minerva McGonagall · Charles Rookwood · Matilda Weasley
Textbooks A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration · Intermediate Transfiguration · A Guide to Advanced Transfiguration
Transfiguration spells taught at Hogwarts
Colour Change Charm (Colovaria) · Change of hair colour and style (Crinus Muto) · Hardening Charm (Duro) · Mending Charm (Reparo) · Partial Vanishment · Reparifarge · Softening Charm (Spongify) · Switching Spell · Vanishing Spell (Evanesco)
Conjuring Spells Bird-Conjuring Charm (Avis) · Inanimatus Conjurus Spell · Bouquet Spell (Orchideous) · Snake Summons Spell (Serpensortia)
Transforming Spells Animal to water goblet (Vera Verto) · Armadillo to Pillow · Bowling Ball to Balloon · Beetle into Button · Cauldron to badger · Cat to cauldron (Felifors) · Cauldron Cakes to Cabbages · Chair to cat · Cross-Species Switches · Desk Into Pig · Fairy Cakes to Fairies · Feather Duster to Ferret · Ferret to Feather Duster · Gobstone to butterfly · Goldfinch to Golden Snitch · Flobberworm to Fritter · Gnomes to Lawn Gnomes · Guinea fowl to guinea pig · Gobstone to Skunk · Hedgehog to pincushion · King to Rook · Lovebird to Love Note · Match to needle · Meddling Man to Monkey · Mice to Snuffboxes · Owl to Opera Glasses (Strigiforma) · Pawn to Queen · Porcupine to Pin Cushion (Hystrifors) · Puffskein to Paperweight · Rubbish to Raccoon Dog · Small Child to Rat · Small object to dragon (Draconifors) · Snail to Teapot · Target to bird (Avifors) · Target to matchbox (Flintifors) · Target to rabbit (Lapifors) · Teacup into Gerbil · Teacup to Rat · Teapot to Tortoise · Thimble to Thestral · Toad to Toadstool · Tortoise to Trumpet · White rabbits to slippers
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