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Transfigure thyself7/23/2023 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets It kept crackling and sparking at odd moments, and every time Ron tried to transfigure his beetle, it engulfed him in thick gray smoke that smelled of rotten eggs. He had patched up his wand with some borrowed Spellotape, but it seemed damaged beyond repair. He was supposed to be turning a beetle into a button, but all he managed to do was give his beetle a lot of exercise as it scuttled over the desktop avoiding his wand. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's StoneĪs regards Ron and his broken wand and the book scene in question: McGonagall showed the class how it had gone all silver and pointy and Only Hermione Granger had made any difference to her match Professor Here is what we do know about Transfiguration and Ron and good vs broken wands:Įven in their first year Transfiguration class, Ron (and the rest of the class) are unable to successfully perform transfiguration, except for Hermione:Īfter taking a lot of complicated notes, they were each given a matchĪnd started trying to turn it into a needle. Good question - ultimately one for the movie though, since, in the book, Ron wasn't trying to transfigure Scabbers, but rather, beetles into buttons. “Well, it’s a start,’ said Ron, holding up a long wriggling mouse-tail and dropping it back into the box Lavender was passing around.” - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 15 (The Hogwarts High Inquisitor) He's left with a mouse tail when he tries Vanishing a mouse. By the end of a double period neither he nor Ron had managed to vanish the snails on which they were practising, though Ron said hopefully he thought his looked a bit paler.” - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 13 (Detention with Dolores) “She was quite right Harry found the Vanishing Spells horribly difficult. The first time he attempts to Vanish a snail, it maybe gets paled, but that's all. He doesn't do well at it in his fifth year either. In later years, he isn't particularly successful at it either. In their first year, Ron doesn't do well at Transfiguration, with a working wand and on animals provided by Professor McGonagall. However, that doesn't mean he would have succeeded given better circumstances. Ron's failed Transfiguration was probably not his fault in this case. However, Ron may have still failed, even with a working wand and a non-Animagus. However, all his spells in his second year failed, ever since his wand broke in the encounter with the Whomping Willow. In the book, Ron never tries to transfigure Scabbers into a goblet. In the book, his second-year spellcasting problems are because his wand is broken. Transfiguring an Animagus isn't quite like transfiguring a human, and isn't quite like transfiguring an animal, so it's not clear what would happen. However, it's never mentioned (or tried in any situation with no other variables) whether transfiguring an Animagus would be like transfiguring a human, an animal, something between the two, or if it would even work at all. ‘If only we’d done human Transfiguration already! But I don’t think we start that until sixth year, and it can go badly wrong if you don’t know what you’re doing …” - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 26 (Yhe Second Task) “Of course, the ideal solution would be for you to Transfigure yourself into a submarine or something,’ she said. Hermione also mentioned how difficult human Transfiguration is when she's helping Harry prepare for the Second Task. “They had just embarked upon the immensely difficult topic of human transfiguration working in front of mirrors, they were supposed to be changing the colour of their own eyebrows.” - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 15 (The Unbreakable Vow) ![]() Transfiguring a human is presumably much more difficult than transfiguring an animal, since Hogwarts students only start learning that in N.E.W.T.-level Transfiguration classes. Mice are similar creatures to rats, so Transfiguring an average (non-Animagus) rat is presumably also fairly simple. “Professor McGonagall watched them turn a mouse into a snuff-box – points were given for how pretty the snuff-box was, but taken away if it had whiskers.” - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 16 (Through the Trapdoor) Their Transfiguration exam in their first year required them to turn a mouse into a snuff-box. Transfiguring animals is relatively simple - it's taught to the first-years at Hogwarts. All rights reserved.It isn't clear if Scabbers being an Animagus would affect the spell. ![]() Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd.
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