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Magical creatures comprise a colourful and integral aspect of the wizarding world in the ''Harry Potter'' series by J. K. Rowling. Throughout the seven books of the series, Harry and his friends encounter many of these creatures on their adventures, as well as in the Care of Magical Creatures class at Hogwarts. Rowling has also written ''Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'', a guide to the magical beasts found in the series. Many of these legendary creatures are derived from folklore, including Greek mythology, Egyptian mythology, British folklore, and Scandinavian folklore.
| Contents |
| Magizoology |
| Regulation and classification |
| List of magical beasts |
| Dark creatures |
| Known Dark Creatures |
| Animals with magical powers |
| Characters |
| Named |
| Unnamed |
| Unmentioned Creatures |
| See also |
| External links |
Magizoology
Magizoology (a portmanteau of magic and zoology) is the study of magical creatures in the Harry Potter series. People who study Magizoology are known as a magizoologists. There are magizoologists who work in the Ministry of Magic, particularly in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. One notable magizoologist is Newt Scamander, who in the universe of the series is the author of ''Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'', a textbook on magical creatures that is popular in the wizarding world (Rowling used Newt Scamander as her pseudonym for the real-life Fantastic Beasts).
Other characters who study magical creatures include Newt's grandson Rolf Scamander, as well as Luna Lovegood (who eventually marries Rolf), although these two have only been referred to by Rowling as naturalists.
Regulation and classification
The Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures of the Ministry of Magic is responsible for overseeing and regulating magical creatures. It is divided into three divisions: the Beast Division, the Being Division, and the Spirit Division. A "being" is generally defined, according to ''Fantastic Beasts'', as "any creature that has sufficient intelligence to understand the laws of the magical community and to bear part of the responsibility in shaping those laws." This includes humans and goblins; in accordance with this definition, fairies, pixies, gnomes, and most other creatures are classified as beasts. Centaurs and merpeople rejected being status in favour of beast status. Werewolves and Animagi are notable because they are typically in human form — a werewolf transforms from human state only at the full moon, and an animagus is a human who has learned to transform into an animal at will. Affairs related to ghosts come under the of the Spirit Division. Dementors, terrible creatures which guard Azkaban prison, are not specifically mentioned in ''Fantastic Beasts''.
The Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures classifies magical creatures on a scale from X to XXXXX as follows (according to page ''xxii'' of ''Fantastic Beasts''):
★ 'X:' Boring
★ 'XX:' Harmless / may be domesticated
★ 'XXX:' Competent wizards should cope
★ 'XXXX:' Dangerous / requires specialist knowledge / skilled wizard may handle
★ 'XXXXX:' Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate. (Also said to be anything Hagrid likes.)
List of magical beasts
Below is the complete list of entries in ''Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'' listed under "An A – Z of Fantastic Beasts." The Ministry of Magic classification (see above) is also noted. Blood-Sucking Bugbears,[1] boggarts and hinkypunks have been mentioned in the series but do not appear in ''Fantastic Beasts'', and hence no Ministry of Magic classification is supplied. Nor is the Blast-Ended Skrewt mentioned in ''Fantastic Beasts''—it may be a hybrid creature, perhaps a cross between a Fire Crab and a Manticore.
Dark creatures
Dark creatures are frequently mentioned in the ''Harry Potter'' books - Remus Lupin's class dealt with them - though the term is not easily defined. The Harry Potter Lexicon speculates in its essay on the subject that dark creatures, as opposed to normal magical animals, are those that use dark powers for more than mere survival.[1] Many magical creatures, such as manticores and erklings, are very dangerous, but, nonetheless, are not "dark creatures," since they are natural predators utilising their power in their quest for food, reproduction, and survival; having no consciences or malicious purposes, they may not necessarily be considered "evil." A dark creature, on the other hand, seeks to harm for the sake of harm, not its own survival. Many such creatures are defined in ''Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'' It is possible (though this is not clear) that ''demon'' is an appropriate term for any Dark creature, since some such creatures, such as Red Caps and grindylows, are known to be both.
Dark creatures do not necessarily reproduce and may simply result from spontaneously generating in places of strong ambient Dark Magic or where a strongly emotive or suggestive act has been committed. Red caps, for instance, appear on battlefields or other locations where human blood has been spilled in large amounts. Dementors "grow like fungi," according to JK Rowling, in the foulest, darkest places. (Dementors are described as "breeding" in ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,'' though this may simply mean that more are generating, rather than implying normal reproduction.) Most dark creatures are not, by human standards, ''intelligent''; vampires and werewolves, examples of those who are intelligent, are part-human.
Dark creatures are also those magical creatures produced artificially through the use of Dark Magic. One notable example of such creation is the basilisk.
Some magical creatures, especially those considered "beings" by the Ministry of Magic (and thus theoretically equal to humans), are themselves capable of learning and using the Dark Arts.
Known Dark Creatures
★ Banshees
★ Basilisks
★ Boggarts
★ Dementors
★ Grindylows
★ Hags†
★ Hinkypunks
★ Kappas
★ Redcaps
★ Vampires†
★ Werewolves†
† = part human
Animals with magical powers
Many pets in the series are ordinary animals with magical properties. Owls, for example, deliver mail. Only creatures that exist exclusively in the magical world are listed below.
Characters
Below is a list of magical beasts who come into contact with Harry or have some significant role in the series. The beast's name (if applicable), type, home or owner, and the relevant book(s) are noted. (Books in which the character appears only briefly are italicised.) Some of these beasts are also listed as pets.
Named
★ 'Aragog'
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★ 'Species': Acromantula
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★ 'Location': Forbidden Forest
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★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 2, Book 6, Book 7''
★ 'Buckbeak as Witherwings'
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★ 'Species': Hippogriff
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★ 'Owner': Rubeus Hagrid, then Sirius Black, then Harry Potter, then back to Rubeus Hagrid
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★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 3, Book 4, Book 5, Book 6, Book 7''
★ 'Bane'
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★ 'Species': Centaur
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★ 'Location': Forbidden Forest
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★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 1, Book 5, Book 7''
★ 'Crookshanks'
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★ 'Species': Part Cat, part Kneazle
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★ 'Owner': Hermione
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★ ' Book appeared in': ''Book 3, Book 4, Book 5, Book 6''
★ 'Fawkes'
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★ 'Species': Phoenix
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★ 'Owner': Albus Dumbledore
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★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 2, Book 4, Book 5, Book 6''
★ 'Firenze'
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★ 'Species': Centaur
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★ 'Location': Forbidden Forest, then Hogwarts
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★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 1, Book 5, Book 6, Book 7''
★ 'Fluffy'
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★ 'Species': Three-Headed Hellhound
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★ 'Location': Hogwarts, then released to Forbidden Forest
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★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 1''
★ 'Tenebrus'
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★ 'Species': Thestral
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★ 'Owner': Rubeus Hagrid
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★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 5''
★ 'Norbert aka Norberta'
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★ 'Species': Dragon (Norwegian Ridgeback)
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★ 'Owner': Rubeus Hagrid (as a baby), later Charlie Weasley
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★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 1''
★
★ 'Mentioned in': ''Book 7''
★ 'Ronan'
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★ 'Species': Centaur
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★ 'Location': Forbidden Forest
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★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 1, Book 5''
★ 'Sanguini'
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★ 'Species': Vampire
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★ 'Location': Slughorns expanded office, in his christmas party
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★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 6,''
Unnamed
★ 'Blast-ended skrewts'
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★ 'Owner': Rubeus Hagrid
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★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 4''
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★ 'Books mentioned in': ''Book 5, Book 7''
★ 'Basilisk'
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★ 'Location': Chamber of Secrets
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★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 2, Book 7''
★ 'Centaurs'
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★ 'Location': Forbidden Forest
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★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 1, Book 5, Book 6, Book 7''
★ 'Doxies'
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★ 'Location': 12 Grimmauld Place
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★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 5''
★ 'Dragon' (unspecified)
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★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 7''
★ 'Dragon' (Chinese Fireball)
★
★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 4''
★ 'Dragon' (Common Welsh Green)
★
★ 'Books appeared in': Book 4
★ 'Dragon' (Hungarian Horntail)
★
★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 4''
★ 'Dragon' (Swedish Short-Snout)
★
★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 4''
★ 'Grindylow' - Studied in Defence Against the Dark Arts.
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★ 'Location': The Lake
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★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 3, Book 4''
★ 'Kappa' - Studied in Defence Against the Dark Arts
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★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 3''
★ 'Kelpies'
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★ 'Location': a well
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★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 2''
★ 'Leprechauns' (Irish mascots at the Quidditch World Cup)
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★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 4''
★ 'Merpeople'
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★ 'Location': Hogwarts lake
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★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 4, Book 6''
★ 'Red Caps' - Studied in Defence Against the Dark Arts
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★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 3''
★ 'Sphinx' in Triwizard Maze
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★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 4''
★ 'Troll'
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★ 'Location': Girl's Bathroom, mountains, forests, rivers
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★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 1''
★ 'Unicorn'
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★ 'Location': Forbidden Forest
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★ 'Books appeared in': ''Book 1,Book 4''
Unmentioned Creatures
In the course of the Harry Potter books, several creatures have been mentioned that were not mentioned in Newt Scamander's book. Also mentioned in the series are boggarts, cockatrices, dwarves, banshees, goblins, giants, hinkypunks, zombies, mummies, inferi and veela. Others like vampires and hags are mentioned as being classified as "magical beings," and thus it is possible at least some of the above fall under that category, explaining their absence from ''Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.''
See also
★ Ghosts (Harry Potter)
★ Boggart (Harry Potter)
★ Goblins (Harry Potter)
★ Troll (Harry Potter)
★ Werewolf (Harry Potter)
★ House-Elf
★ Dementor
★ Dark creatures
★ Pets from Harry Potter
★ Care of Magical Creatures
★ Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures
★ ''Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them''
★ Animagus
External links
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