Claude Bolling

In the universe of Harry Potter created by J.K. Rowling, of many fantastic creatures make their appearance.

Fantastic creatures studied at the time of the course of Defense against the forces of the evil

Chaporouges
Épouvantard
Kappas
Wolves-garous
Imps of Cornouailles
Pitiponk
Strangulot
Vampires

Fantastic creatures studied at the time of the course of Care to the magic creatures

Other fantastic creatures met

Acromantule (Aragog)
Basil
Centaur S
Doxy
Elf of house
Gnome
Owls
Phoenix
Serpencendre
Pitiponk

Creatures alphabetically

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Acromantule

A acromantule is a fantastic creature of the imaginary world of Harry Potter. Most known is Aragog.

It is monstrous a roughcast Araignée hairs. Its pair of sharpened grips and its Venin make of it a dangerous creature, which is regarded besides as animal creature in spite of its intelligence and its faculty of speaking, because of its incapacity to dominate its brutal nature.

It is carnivorous and particularly likes the preys of big size which it cannot be prevented from devouring, even if this one is human. She however fears the basils, and that since always.

It is thought that this animal was created by a wizard about 1794 to keep his residence or a treasure. She saw tapie in the unexplored depths of the jungle of Borneo protected by domes from fabric. There are rumors according to which a colony of Acromantules would have been established in Scotland, even if everyone is unaware of that Hagrid is in the beginning, all except Harry and its friends.

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Botruc

The botruc (in English: Bowtruckle ) is a small creature (twenty centimetres maximum height) with the maroon eyes, provided with long pointed fingers (two with each hand), and of which appearance similar to a mixture of barks and brushwood assistance to be camouflaged in its natural environment.

This guard of the trees nourishes mainly woodlice and eggs of fairy when it can get some.

Present primarily in the west of the England, the south of the Germany and in the Scandinavian countries, the botruc is the guard of the tree in which he lives and its presence ensures a wood of quality for the manufacture of the magic wands.

The sharpened fingers of the botruc seem initially a tool as useful as the nozzle of the Green woodpecker to extirpate the food of the hollows of wood, but it are also used as very effective weapon against the eyes of an enemy.

Usually peaceful, the botruc can attack human if he is threatened (that as well includes/understands the aggressions made with its tree as with itself).

A wizard or a witch wishing to take wood on a tree inhabited by a botruc must introduce woodlice or eggs of fairy to him to occupy it one moment.

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Chaporouges

The Chaporouges are small creatures similar to goblins. They kill the Moldu S mislaid to soak their bonnet in their blood. Once blood is dry, they kill a new person to start again.

This creature refers to the Bonnet-Red ( Redcap ) of the British folklore.

Chartier

The Chartier (or “English Jarvey”) is present in Great Britain, Ireland and North America. It resembles almost in any point large a Furet with this difference which it is endowed with word. All true conversation is however out of reach intelligence of Chartier which is limited to some short sentences (and often coarse) that it outputs in an almost uninterrupted flood. Chartiers live most of the time under ground where they drive out the Gnomes although they also nourish Taupe S, of Rat S and Campagnol S.

Crab of fire

The crab of fire resembles a tortoise whose carapace would be encrusted with invaluable stones. Originating in an coastal area protected from the islands Fiji, it is a very required creature, in constant danger since certain wizards drive out it for the manufacture of Chaudron S thanks to the virtues of its carapace. It can nevertheless be defended by projecting flames by the posterior part of its body. Rubeus Hagrid crosses a species of this creature with a Manticore to give rise to, which it calls, a Scroutt with detonator.

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Doxy

A doxy with the appearance of a tiny human being and therefore one confuses it with the fairies. It is covered with a thick black fur and is equipped with two additional arms and two legs. Its wings are thick, curved and brilliant, like those of a beetle.

This creature is equipped with two lines of pointed and poisonous teeth, and in the event of bite it is necessary to manage an antidote as soon as possible.

He likes the cold climates and lives in the north of Europe and America He can lay to 500 eggs at the same time, which he buries and whose blossoming will have place two or three weeks later.

Dragon

In the Universe of Harry Potter, the dragon S are largely exploited imaginary creatures.

They are most difficult to hide. The eggs are classified in the category has prohibited goods of trade. They are classified by the Ministère of the Magic in category, that is to say Connu to be a killer of wizard/Impossible to draw up or domesticate.

There exist ten species of dragons:

Antipodean Opaleye (Opaloeil of the antipodes) : With the difference of the other dragons, he saw the valleys rather than the mountains. He weighs between two and three tons. He is undoubtedly the most beautiful dragon. He is covered with iridescent and given luster to scales. He has eyes without pupils which give him an opaline glance. He is hardly aggressive and its eggs are of a gray color.
Chinese Blaster (sometimes called Dragonlion) : He is the only dragon of the Far East. He is scarlet, has a crushed muzzle surrounded by points of gold and its eyes are very protuberant. He weighs between two and four tons. Its eggs are of a crimson color strewn with gold. It is more aggressive towards the dragons of its species than the others.
Magyar with points : It is most dangerous of all the dragons and has black scales, resembles a large lizard. It has yellow eyes, horns and spines bronzes. It can project flames until a distance of fifteen meters. Its eggs have the appearance of cement.
Black of Hébrides : It can measure up to nine meters and has rough scales, purple eyes and a line of short points along the spine. Its tail ends in an arrow equipped with wings similar to that of the bats. The clan of MacFusty, living in Hébrides, has dealt with these dragons for several centuries.
Norwegian with peak : He resembles the Magyar with points, but the points are replaced by plates of a black of jet to the length of the spine. It is one of the rarest species. It is the only dragon which nourishes watery creatures, its eggs are black and it can blow fire at an age between one and three months. When he is baby, one nourishes it with cognac and blood of chicken.
Tooth-of-viper of Peru : It is smallest of the dragons and flies most quickly. It measures approximately five meters and has scales smooth and coppered with black marks along the spine. Its horns are short and the poisonous hooks. They are very fond of delicacies of human meat.
Rumanian Cornelongue : It has scales dark green and long gold horns. Its horns are used in the potions and are included in the category B of the products whose trade is subjected to conditions.
Swedish with short muzzle : It is a beautiful silver plated blue dragon. It kills less the human ones than the majority of the other dragons, but it does not have a merit, because where it saw, in the mountainous regions, it is too wild to live there.
Ukrainian Panserder : It is largest of the dragons. Its weight can reach six tons. It has the round body and can crush a house. Its scales are of a metal gray, its eyes dark red and its claws are very fatal.
Green common Welsh : He is one of the dragons most peaceful. He makes of sound to better avoid the human ones. Its howling is very mélodieux. Its eggs are brown, green ground color and strewn with spots.

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Elf of house

Épouvantard

A épouvantard is a creature which at will changes aspect by producing a sound slapping and always takes possible form more terrifying, this is why nobody does not know what it resembles. Moreover, she likes the places dark and confined like the wall cupboards and the cupboards.

When it meets several people, the épouvantard is weakened because it cannot which form take to make fear with everyone at the same time. To neutralize it, it is enough to burst to laugh. For that, it should be obliged to take a form which one finds désopilante and to pronounce the formula “Riddikulus”. Once countered, it passes to someone else, and disappears definitively after a burst of laughter (of the wizard) in a multitude of small volutes of smoke.

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Hippogriffe

A hippogriffe is a flying creature whose head, the chest, the front wings and legs are those of an eagle (griffon) and whose bodies (including the posterior legs and the tail) are those of a horse. It has eyes of orange color, but its dress can have several nuances (like black, green-bronzes, chestnut-red, gray-blue and rosy white), just as the normal horses. The span of the wings of an adult hippogriffe is approximately of 4 meters.

One can lengthily see a hippogriffe, called Buck in synthesized images in the film Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban (2003).

A person wishing to approach a hippogriffe must fix it in the eyes without blinking eyes and greeting it while inclining herself; if the animal inclines itself in its turn, one can touch it and even to overlap it. The owners of hippogriffes are held to keep them under magic spell of disillusion to prevent that Moldus do not see them.

A wizard should not especially insult a hipogriffes (see volume 3) if not it would be perhaps the last thing which it would make.

The hippogriffes are carnivorous and extremely dangerous as long as they are not drawn up, and this stage should be dealt with only by wizards or witch qualified (this said, the hippogriffes can nourish insects, birds and small animals like the rats or the pipe cleaners).

Poudlard has at least a dozen hippogriffes for the courses of care with the magic creatures.

The hippogriffes in Harry Potter are largely inspired by the Hippogriffe S of European medieval mythology.

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Imps of Cornouailles

The Lutin S of Cornouailles are creatures diablotines originating in Cornouailles of an electric color blue. They can measure up to 20 cm. They are very impolite, and adore to make jokes. Although not having wings, they can fly. These creatures Vivipare S push chatter acute that only their similar can include/understand.

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Nagini

Nifflor

The niffleurs are animals with the fur black and puffing out and the lengthened muzzle which dig the ground as if they swam. The niffleurs are very attracted by all that shines and are thus very useful to unearth treasures, and the goblins often have some for this reason. Originating in Great Britain, Niffleurs live in burrows with five or six meters under ground and have ranges from six to eight small.

Fred and George left two Niffleurs with Lee Jordan on the basis of the school. This last did them léviter to the window of the office of Shade where they made merry damage before attacking it when it entered the part.

Even if Niffleurs are nice and even affectionate, Ombrage were accustomed to carrying rings and Niffleurs are prompt to be thrown on the jewels to try to tear off them.

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Pitiponk

The pitiponk is a magic animal which lives in the marshes. It has one foot and it benefits from its appearance (small, frail, inoffensive, a constitutional body of nets of smoke) to attract the travellers with his lantern and to lose them.

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Serpencendre

A serpencendre is a creature appearing only when one lets a magic fire burn too a long time. It is a thin, gray snake clearly, with blazing red eyes. He saw only one hour during which he seeks a dark place to lay his eggs which can put fire if one quickly does not freeze them with a suitable magic spell.

He is classified in category XXX of the Ministère of the Magic, that is to say which he does not pose of problem to a qualified wizard.

Sombral

The sombrals are creatures resembling horses, but deprived of any flesh. The head of a sombral points out that of the dragon S with white eyes without pupil and a fixed glance and vacuum. They have a pair of black wings, on smooth surface like those of the bat, with the height of the garrot.

They are considered to carry misfortune, because of their main feature: only those which saw dying somebody can see them. Still is necessary it to have been conscious of the death which one observed. The sombrals are very intelligent creatures and which have a direction of the orientation very developed. Moreover they fly extremely quickly. That allowed Harry Potter and its friends of the Armée with Dumbledore to quickly rejoin the Ministère of the Magic, simply in their giving the name of the place.

There is a whole herd in the Prohibited Forest of Poudlard. Raised by Hagrid, they are the subject of a course of Care to the magic creatures in the fifth volume. It is them which draw the barouches which take along the pupils to the castle the day of the return to school. Until its fifth year, Harry Potter supposed that the barouches advanced themselves. At the time of the course of care to the magic creatures, only Rubeus Hagrid itself, Harry Potter, Luna Lovegood (Pupil of Serdaigle), Neville Londubat and a pupil of Serpentard named Theodore Nott manage to see these creatures.

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Bulky

Touffu is a Chien with three heads which, in volume 1 of Harry Potter Harry Potter at the school of the wizards , is charged to protect the Philosopher's stone.

To pass in front of, it is enough to play an air of music to deaden it. Its origins are Greek. It comes from the guard from the Hells, Hadès, Cerbère (Cerberus): it lets pass only deaths and prevents the alive ones from reaching the hells.

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Vélane

A Vélane is a being resembling a woman of a great beauty (they are described like having silver plated fair hair, blue eyes and a skin which with the color of the moonlight) and of an incomparable charm. When they sing, they envoûtent almost all the men who listen to them. They are regarded as typical creatures of the Bulgaria since they are the mascots of the Bulgare team of Quidditch at the time of the World cup of Quidditch.

But if Vélanes are irritated, they lose all their beauty then: their whole bodies are transformed into that of a bird.

It is also known that the vélanes are interfécondes with the human beings, since the maternal grandmother of Fleur Delacour in is one. This detail evoked in the novel is not specified in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the goblet of fire , but was it nevertheless in the communication campaign about film.

The vélanes of the universe of Harry Potter are inspired by the folklore of Eastern Europe.

Veracrasse

A veracrasse is a thick worm of color chestnut, being able to reach vingt-cing centimetres, which does not have teeth and which is thus vegetarian (he likes lettuce particularly).

It secretes a substance sometimes used to bind the potions. Hagrid, destabilized by the incident with the hippogriffes, chooses veracrasse it like subject for its third year during a whole six-month period, which was a pure waste of time because the veracrasses like to remain alone nothing to make.

Gilded Vivet

A Vivet gilded is a tiny spherical bird, very nimble, being able to show itself very fast and very mobile. As its name indicates it, it has the gilded feathers and of the eyes red Rubis and is made seek for these characteristics, so that it was in process of extinction before it becomes a protected space.

In Quidditch, the attrapeurs were to seize the vivet gilded in order to be able to gain 150 points and to put an end to the match. In general, the bird would die as soon as it got caught by a player. Elfrida Clagg, chief of the the Council of the wizards at the XVIIe century, made illegal the use of this animal and made it replace by an object, the Vif of gold, inspired of the bird.

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