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Creatures, Animals, Unusual Plants, & non-Human beings in Harry Potter's World
Abraxan horses, big, winged beasts, can fly, Bk5- 437, (Madame Maxime's horses?)
Acromantula, Beasts- 1
Aragog, a giant spider that knows, and was raised by, Hagrid and is leader of a large pack of giant spiders, Bk2- 276, an Acromantula, Beasts- 1
Ashwinder, Beasts- 2
Augurey, Beasts- 3
Banshee, women with floor length hair and a skeletal, green-tinged face, makes an unearthly, wailing shriek, Bk3- 137
Barney the Furuit Bat, famous mascot of the Ballycastle Bats Quidditch team, Quidditch- 33
Basilisk, the King of Serpents, a snake that can live hundreds of years, born from a chicken egg, hatched beneath a toad, deadly venomous fangs, a murderous stare that kills instantly with it’s large yellow eyes, spiders fear it and flee from it, the crowing of a rooster is fatal to it, Bk2- 290, Beasts- 3
Billywig, Beasts- 4
Binky, Lavendar Brown's rabbit, Lavendar finds out on October 16 that Binky was killed by a fox, Bk3- 148
Blastended Skrewts, lobster like creatures about 6" long at birth, blasts energy out of one end, Bk4- 196, with stingers and suckers, Bk4- 197, grew to 3’ long in two months, started killing each other, Bk4- 264, 6’ long in 3 months, Bk4- 368, a cross between manticores and fire-crabbes, Bk4- 438, 10’ long and scorpion like with hard armour that repels spells at 10 months, Bk4- 625
Blibbering Humdinger, are they real?, Bk5- 262
Boggart, a shape-shifter that takes the shape of what ever it thinks will frighten us most, Bk3- 133, the spell Riddikulus is used against a boggart, laughter finishes it off, Bk3-134
Bouncing Balls, plants that wriggled out of Harry’s hand and smacked him in the face, Bk4- 293
Bowtruckle, Beasts- 5, looks like a stick like pixieish creature made of wood, trea-guardians, live in wand trees, eat wood lice, Bk5- 258,259
Buckbeak, Hippogriff that Harry rides and which attacks Draco when Draco insults it, Bk3- 115, 118, living safely with Sirius Black, Bk4- 524
Bundium, Beasts- 5
Bungy, the bungie who lives at Five Feather in Barnsley who learned to waterski, Bk5- 4
Centaur, above the waist they look human, below the waist they look like a horse, Bk1- 252, very strong belief in astrology, Harry meets some centaurs, Ronan, Bane, Bk1- 253, and Firenze, who helped Harry get away from the creature drinking the dead unicorn’s blood, Bk1- 257, 258, Beasts- 6, Morigan, Bk5- 698,754
Chimaera, Beasts- 7, Bk5- 442
Chizpurtle, Beasts- 7
Clabbert, Beasts- 8
Cornish Pixies, 8 inch tall, electric blue, nasty little flying creatures, Bk2- 101, 102, Beasts- 32
Crookshanks, Hermione’s cat purchased at the Magical Managerie, Bk3- 60, friend of Sirius Black, Bk3- 303, 342, most intellegent of "it's kind"?, can recognize Animagi and evil wizards, Bk3- 364, could Crookshanks be part Kneazles, see Beasts- 24
Crumple-Horned Snorkack, are they real?, Bk5- 262,570,583,762,848
Crup, Beasts- 8, to be covered in Harry's 5th year, Bk5- 323, similar to a Jack Russell terrier with a forked tail, Bk5- 552
Dementor, tall, wears a black cloak, grayish, slimy looking scabbed skin, Bk3- 83, they are the guards at Azkaban, chocolate reduces the lingering effects of the Dementors, Bk3- 85, they are among the foulest creatures that walk the earth, they drain peace, hope & happiness out of the air around them, every good feeling and happy memory will be sucked out of you, Bk3- 187, their worst weapon is the Dementor’s kiss where it uses it’s mouth to suck the soul out of a person leaving no sense of self, no memory, just a living empty shell with no chance of recovery, Bk3- 247, revolted against the Ministry, thye now follow Voldemort, Bk5- 845
Demiguise, Beasts- 9
Devil’s Snare, a large plant that ensnares anyone who gets to close with it’s snake like tendrils, killed with fire, Bk1- 277, 278, a small Devil's Snare killed Mr. Bode in St. Mungo's Hospital, Bk5- 547
Diricawl, Beasts- 9
Dobby, Bk2- 8, a house elf warning Harry not to return to Hogwarts, Bk2- 12, 16, belongs to the Malfoy’s, freed by Harry, Bk2- 334, 338, got a job in the Hogwart’s kitchen, Bk4- 376
Doxy, Beasts- 10, curtains full of Doxies at the Orders Headquarters, Bk5- 1-1, shinny, beatle like wings, tiny sharp teeth, fairie like body, 4 tiny fists, Bk5- 103,104
Dragons, dragon heartstrings are used in some magic wands Bk1- 84, various books on dragons, dragon breeding banned by the Warlock’s Convention of 1709, dragons living in the wild in Britain include the Hebridean Black and Common Welsh Green, Bk1- 230, Beasts- 12, the Welsh Green is a smaller dragon, Bk4- 327, Hagird’s dragon is a Norwegian Ridgeback, Bk1- 233, Beasts- 13, named Norbert, Bk1- 236, most dragons can shoot fire 20 feet, the Horntail can shoot fire 40 feet, Bk4- 326, other breeds of dragons include the Hungarian Horntail which is an enormous black dragon with a spiked tail, a Swedish Shortsnout which is a blue-gray dragon, and a Chinese Fireball which is a red dragon with gold spikes around it’s face, Bk4- 327, Beasts- 14, an ancient magic imbues their hides which none but the most powerful magic can penetrate, Bk4- 338, it’s eyes are it’s weakest spot, Bk4- 406, additional breeds of dragon are the Antipodean Opaleye, Peruvian Viper, Romanian Longhorn, and Ukranian Ironball, Beasts- 10-14
Dugbog, Beasts- 15
Dwarves, surly-looking grim-looking, Bk2- 237
Erkling, Beasts- 15
Errol, the Weasley owl, very old and not always reliable at delivering the mail, Bk2- 30, sometimes mistaken for a feather duster, Bk2- 44
Erumpent, Beasts- 16
Fairy, Beasts- 16
Fang, Hagrid’s enormous, black boarhound, Bk1- 140
Fanged Geranium, bit Harry during O.W.L.s, Bk5- 714
Fawkes, Dumbledor’s phoenix, Bk2- 207, named after Guy Fawkes who was burned at the stack as ringleader of the plot to blow-up Parliament, Scholastic 10-2000
Firenze, new Divination teacher to replace Trelawney in Harry's 5th year, see also Centaur, Bk5- 598
Fire Crab, Beasts- 17
Flesh Eating Slugs, they were ruining the school cabbages, Bk2- 55
Flitterbloom, harmless plant, Bk5- 547
Flubberworms, most boring creatures, Bk3- 142, Beasts- 17
Fluffy, 3 headed dog in the forbidden 3rd floor corridor in Harry's first year, very vicious, Bk1- 160, 161, Hagrid reveals Fluffy’s name, he had loaned Fluffy to Dumbledor to guard something, Bk1- 192, goes to sleep if you play music, Bk1- 266, 275
Flutterby Bush, a plant, Bk4- 345
Fwooper, Beasts- 18
Ghost, not everyone can come back, only wizards who are afraid of death and chose to remain behind, neither here or there, death and ghosts are studies by the Dept of Mysteries, Bk5- 860,861
Ghoul, a creature that lives in the Weasley attic, Bk2- 29, Beasts- 18
Giant, Hagrid is half Giant, Bk4- 428, they’re not nice, they’re like trolls, they like killing, none left in Britain, many were killed by Aurors, hiding in mountains abroad, Bk4- 430, about 20’ tall, Bk4- 432, warring against each other in the last century brought them to near extinction, many of the remaining Giants served Voldemort, Bk4- 439, only 80 or so left hidden in the mountains near Minsk?, used to be hundres of tribes around the world, Bk5- 426, Gurg, title of the chief, Bk5- 427
Glumbumble, Beasts- 19
Gnomes, creatures that live in the Weasley garden, Bk2- 29, small and leathery looking, Bk2- 37, they eat the roots of plants and make heaps of earth like moles and only live at a wizarding house, Scholastic 2-2000, Beasts- 19
Goblins, short tough creatures who run, and protect, Gringotts, the wizard bank, Bk-1 63, 72, 73
Golgomath, new Gurg of the Giants after Karkas was killed, Golgomath was dealing with the Death Eaters, inc. Macnair, Bk5- 430-433
Graphorn, Beasts- 19
Grawp, Hagrid's half brother and all Giant, same mother different father, small for a giant-only 16 feet tall, Bk5- 691,757, much better behaved now, Bk5- 854
Griffin, Beasts- 20
Grim, a giant spectral dog that haunts church yards, the worst Omen of Death, Bk3- 107
Grindylow, a water demon, a sickly green creature with sharp spindly fingers which are very brittle, Bk3- 154, with pointed fangs, Bk4- 495, Beasts- 20
Griphook, a goblin at Gringotts, Bk1- 73
Hedwig, Harry’s beautiful snowy owl, bought in Eeylops Owl Emporium by Hagrid for Harry’s birthday, Bk1- 81, given name, Bk1- 88, a large snowy owl, Bk3- 6
Heliopaths, spirits of fire, Luna Lovegood beleives Fudge has an army of them, Bk5- 345
Hermes, Percey Weasley’s owl, given to him by his parents when he became a Prefect, Bk-1 100, Bk2- 30, a screech owl, Bk3- 70, Bk5- 296
Hinkypunk, a one-legged creature, wispy looking, dangling a lantern to lure travelers into bogs, Bk3- 186
Hippocampus, Beasts- 20
Hippogriff, bodies, hind legs, and tails of a horse, front legs, wings, and head of a giant eagle, steel colored beaks, brilliant orange eyes, 6" talons on the front legs, proud creatures so don’t insult them, bow to them first and if they bow back you can approach them, Bk3- 113-115, with 12 foot wing span, Bk3- 117, Beasts- 21
Horklump, Beasts- 21
House-elf, a small creature with large eyes and long ears that are "bound to serve one house and one family forever", Bk2- 14, usually belongs to rich, old wizarding families, such as Malfoy, Bk2- 29, can only be freed by a gift of clothing from their master, Bk2- 177
Imp, Beasts- 22
Jarvey, Beasts- 22
Jobberknoll, Beasts- 22
Kappas, creepy water-dwellers that look like scaly monkeys, with webbed hands itching to strangle unwitting waders in ponds, Bk3- 141, commonly found in Mongolia, Bk3- 172, Beasts- 23
Karkus, Gurg of the Giants Hagrid meets, Bk5- 427, killed by other Giants, see Golgomath, Bk5- 430
Kelpie, Beasts- 23
Knarl, Beasts- 24, knarl quills, Bk5- 171, to be covered in harry's 5th year, Bk5- 323
Kneazle, Beasts- 24, to be covered in Harry's 5th year, Bk5- 323,433
Kreacher, Black Family house-elf, strange for a house-elf, Bk5- 75,76, his mother's head is on one of the plaques, Bk5- ??, visited narsissa Malfoy during Christmas break to pass information to Voldemort, Bk5- 830
Leprechauns, mascots of the Irish team, little bearded men which can rain down gold coins, Bk4- 104, Leprechauns gold disappears in a few hours, Bk4- 544, Beasts- 25
Lethifold, Beasts- 25
Lobalug, Beasts- 27
Mackled Malaclow, Beasts- 28
Magorian, See Centaur
Mandrake, aka Mandragora, is a powerful restorative plant that has purplish green leaves. When pulled from the ground, instead of roots, it looks like an ugly baby which then screams, the sound of which is fatal, except for young seedlings which will just knock one out for a few hours, Bk2- 92, 93
Manticore, Beasts- 28
Merpeople, underwater people with grayish shin and long wild dark green hair, yellowish eyes, Bk4- 497, powerful silver fish tails, Bk4- 498, Beasts- 28
Mimbulus mimbletonia, Neville's new plant that looks like a small grey cactus with boiles instraed of spines and pusating slightly, from Assyria, sprays stinksap when prodded, BK5- 186,187 grew a lot, now makes crooning noises, Bk5- 865
Moke, Beasts- 29
Mooncalves, Beasts- 29
Mosag, giant spider, wife of Aragog, Bk2- 278
Murcus, Merchieftainess, female chief of the Merpeople who live at the bottom of Hogwarts Lake, Bk4- 506
Murtlap, Beasts- 30
Nagini, Voldemort’s pet snake, 12 foot long, supplies nutrition to Voldemort, Bk4- 9, 12
Niffler, small treasure hunting creature with a long snout usually found in mines, Bk4- 543, Beasts- 30
Nogtail, Beasts- 30
Nundu, Beasts- 31
Occamy, Beasts- 31
Owls, behaving oddly, Bk1- 3, used by witches and wizards to deliver mail, Bk1- 61, 81
Phoenix, phoenix tail feathers are used in some magic wands, Bk1- 84, the same phoenix gave the tail feathers for Harry’s and Voldemort’s wands, Bk1- 85, bursts into flame when it dies and is reborn from the ash, this is called Burning Day, wonderful gold and scarlet plumage and highly faithful pets, they can carry immensely heavy loads and their tears have healing powers, Bk2- 207, Beasts- 32
Pigwideon, aka Pig, Ron’s tiny owl that he got from Sirius Black, Bk3- 432, Bk4- 35, 57
Pixie, Beasts- 32
Plimpy, Beasts- 32
Pogrebin, Beasts- 32
Porlock, Beasts- 33, to be covered in harry's 5th year, Bk5- 323
Puffskein, Beasts- 34, a nest of dead Puffskeins under the sofa at the Orders headquarters, Bk5- 101
Quintaped, Beasts- 34
Ragnok, a Goblin at Gringotts who works with Bill Weasley, Bk5- 85
Ramora, Beasts- 36
Red Caps, nasty little goblin like creatures that lurk where ever there had been bloodshed waiting to bludgeon those who get lost, Bk3- 141, Beasts- 36
Re'em, Beasts- 36
Ripper, Aunt Marge’s bulldog, Bk3- 23
Runespoor, Beasts- 36
Salamander, brilliant orange fire-dwelling lizard, Bk2- 130, Beasts- 38
Scabbers, Ron’s pet rat, given to him by Percy when Percy got an owl for being made Prefect, Bk1- 100, Peter ‘Wormtail’ Pettigrew, Bk3- 348
Screechsnap, seedlings don't like too much dragon manure, Bk5- 550
Sea Serpent, Beasts- 38
Golden Snidget, small (walnut sized) round agile bird, hunted for sport and used in Quidditch starting in 1269, until nearly extint, Quididitch- 11
Sphinx, body of a huge lion and the head of a woman, you must answer its riddle to get past, Bk4- 628, 629, Beasts- 39
Giant Squid, a creature that lives in the lake near Hogwarts
Streeler, Beasts- 40
Tebo, Beasts- 40
Thestral, invisible to most people, horse like, flesless creature with wings and a dragonish head, pulls the horseless coaches to Hogwarts, Bk5- 196, Harry and Luna can see them in Harry's 5th year, no one else can, Bk5- 199, 201, flying above the Forbidden Forest, Bk5- 282, memtioned by Prof. Grubbly-Plank, they sometimes attack birds but Hagrid has trained the Hogwart's thestrals, Bk5- 358, Hagrid's got the only domestic heard in Britan, Bk5- 439, Hagdir's lesson on thestrals, only people who have seen death can see thestrals, Bk5- 446, tenebrus was the first thestral born in the Forbidden Forest, Bk5- 447, they have an amazing sense of direction, Bk5- 449
Mr. Tibbles, Mrs. Figgs cat, Bk1- 22, warned mrs. Figg that Mundungus left when he was supposed to be watching Harry, Bk5- 20
Trevor, Neville’s toad, given to him by his Great Uncle Algie for being magical, Bk1- 112
Troll, one got loose in Hogwarts, very dumb, Bk1- 172, smells very bad, 12 ft tall, grey skin, Bk1- 174, Beasts- 40
Unicorn, unicorn tail hairs are used in some magic wands, Bk1- 84, "powerful magic creatures", blood looks silvery, Bk1- 250, 251, bright white creatures with a horn, Bk1- 255, 258, unicorn blood will keep you alive even if you are near death, but you will then live a cursed life, Bk1- 258, golden hooves, prefer women to boys, Bk4- 436, unicorn foals are pure golden in color and more accepting of boys, Bk4- 484, Beasts- 41
Veela, female creature native to Bulgaria and mascots of the Bulgarian National Quidditch Team, moonbright skin, white gold hair, their apparent beauty and music can entrance men, Bk4- 103, they are not really beautiful, Bk4- 111, Veela hair is used in some magic wands, Mr. Ollivander believes it makes for a temperamental wand, Bk4- 308
Venemous Tantacula, a spiky, dark red plant with long feelers, Bk2- 93, the seeds are a Class C Non-Tradable substance, Bk5- 171
Werewolves, people who turn into wolf like creatures during the full moon, Bk3- 171, Beasts- 41
Whomping Willow, a tree on the Hogwarts grounds, the Weasley car crashes into it and the tree attacks back, Bk2- 74, 75, a very valuable tree, Bk2-79, planted the year Lupin started as a student at Hogwarts, Bk3- 348, secret entrance to the tunnel leading to the Shrecking Shack, Bk4- ??
Winged Horse, Beasts- 42
Winky, a house elf who knows Dobby, Bk4- 98, belongs to Barty Crouch, Bk4- 100, went to Hogwarts to work after Mr. Crouch gave her cloths for punishment after the Quidditch World Cup, Bk4- 376
Wood lice, looks like brown rice, food for Bowtruckles, Bk5- 259
Yeti, Beasts- 42