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Separate Switching spells?[]
Should we put each Switching spell in its own page? Other one-to-one Transfiguration spells all have separate pages, so I think Switching spells should too.
The quote "Longbottom, kindly do not reveal that you can’t even perform a simple Switching Spell in front of anyone from Durmstrang!" uses "a Switching Spell", not "the Switching Spell", it likely indicates the term "Switching Spell" is a generic reference rather than points to a specific spell. MalchonC (talk) 06:57, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
- Hi, I can't say for certain, but I think that perhaps the same spell is used for different switches? Does Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery say that a different spell is used for each different kind of switching? What do others think? RedWizard98 (talk) 18:21, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
From what I remember, it just said Switching and the objects that are switched. Seemed unclear to me. It could be different spells or the same one practised on different objects.Rodolphus (talk) 18:48, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
Whatever Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery says, it should be taken with a grain of salt, seen as how Jam City just indiscriminately regurgitates whatever's on the wiki at any given time. I'm fairly sure it only mentions one Switching Spell, but that's probably because the wiki only has one page about it. Tfoc (talk) 21:40, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
- So you're saying that this is the very wiki that Jam City refers to instead of original sources? This wiki has more influence than I thought it would have.
- Anyway, to me it seems unlikely to have one Switching Spell for every switch. I used to think that Vera Verto takes care of all Transfigurations, but I couldn't have been more wrong. MalchonC (talk) 04:46, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
I personally think that it is likely the same spell used in all known documented switches, simply used to switch different targets. I understand why it could be seen as a different spell for different usages, but I haven't yet seen a source which exactly says that there are multiple known switching spells for different targets, which explains my opinion. RedWizard98 (talk) 19:06, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
- Your opinion is very persuasive, but it leaves me wondering, if it is indeed a single spell, why is it needed to have several formal lessons just to practise a single spell on different objects? Is it because it is exceptionally hard? MalchonC (talk) 14:11, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Yes, I think that this may be the reason. We also have the example of the Vanishing spell, which is of varying difficulty depending n what is Vanished.Rodolphus (talk) 14:17, 13 January 2021 (UTC)