Template:A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration - Switching Spell

Next, we shall address ourselves to another key principle of Transfiguration - the partitive, which is to say, affecting one section of an object rather than the thing in its entirety. With numerous powerful spells, the effective targetting of an effect can magnify manifold its impact and consequences, for both the caster and the situation as a whole.

A basic Switching Spell is our first paving-stone in the long and circuitous road of transformational knowledge which we are building here. It allows us to move a single aspect or component of an item, and trade it for some vaguely comparable element of another. Given the excessive number of mishaps in recent years, I have taken the liberty of borrowing from the Herbology Department their supply of earmuffs, and must ask each of you, as a safety precaution, to put them on before you begin your casting attempt.

Today you will take a teapot and a pan, and attempt to swap the two handles. Yes, I know they won't function or fit perfectly on the other utensil - that is rather the point. I'm tired of the hearing from the Care of Magical Creatures department that even mundane creatures have rights, so we will be doing this with inanimate objects, and that is the end of the discussion.

So, the incantation in this case is one word, "Permuto!", and the wand movement is three nice, even waves - directed towards the objects, if you please! OK, as soon as you feel ready, off you go!