Hagrid thinks the skrewts need exercise, and has his students try taking them for a walk GF By December, the skrewts were six feet long. They held their stings arched over their backs and were extremely dangerous and repulsive. Hagrid tries to see if they might hibernate, with teddy bears GF By June, they were ten feet long and had become incredibly dangerous, fearsome creatures. They looked like a gigantic scorpions with stings curled over their backs.
Their armor reflected magic spells and it used its fiery blast to hurl itself at its foe. Hagrid placed a full-grown skrewt in the maze for the third task of the Triwizard Tournament. Harry defeated it with a luckily-aimed Impediment Curse in its belly GF Hagrid started in September with several hundred skrewts.
Hagrid, after losing his nerve with the Hippogriff debacle, had his third year students raise these for a semester, which was completely pointless as they prefer to be left alone and to do nothing. Fluffy is a huge, three-headed dog Cerberus which Hagrid owned. Hagrid got him from a Greek fellow in a bar. Fluffy was extremely dangerous, but could be subdued by playing music. This would put Fluffy into a magical sleep, but the second the music stopped, Fluffy would wake up.
Hagrid placed Fluffy in the third floor corridor over the trap door which led into the chambers of the Philosopher's Stone. When trying to keep Quirrell from getting through the trap door on Halloween night, , Snape was bitten on the leg. Later, Quirrell used a harp to play Fluffy to sleep long enough to slip through the trap door. Harry played a wooden flute, that Hagrid had given him for Christimas, to follow Quirrell. After the Stone was destroyed and Fluffy was no longer needed for guard duty, Hagrid released the giant dog into the Forbidden Forest.
Hagrid got Fluffy from a "Greek chappie" in a pub, which is significant because the three-deaded guardian dog is a reference to Greek mythology where it was named Cerberus and guarded the Underworld.
Unfortunately, this reference was inexplicably changed in the film. Frogs: Ron has a big one in a tank in his room was filled with frog spawn before. They also live in the Weasley's garden pond. For a detention, Neville had to disembowel a whole barrel full of frogs. Ghosts are an unusual type of magical creature. In some ways, they're not creatures at all, but rather characters just like Harry, Ron, Dumbledore, and all the other living people in the books.
But they aren't quite the same, since they've all had the misfortune to die unexpectedly and are now semi-transparent, non-corporeal beings. Ghosts can pass through solid objects. They do not eat, but in many other ways they seem to enjoy a full life. There are differences, however. It seems that their sensibilities are somewhat altered since their deaths, since their idea of music--an orchestra of thirty musical saws--is bizarre and dreadful to the ears of the living. Also, they do seem to be in some way tied to a place, some Myrtle, for example more than others.
They don't all get along exactly well, either. The Bloody Baron is avoided by most ghosts, and the Hogwarts ghosts don't go into the Shrieking Shack because they say a "rough crowd" lives there although this is likely a story they've invented to help support the official lore of the place.
While ghosts as a rule don't affect the physical world--people walk right through them, for example--there are some exceptions. Myrtle can splash water out of the toilet she haunts when she wants to cause a ruckus to demonstrate how miserable she is.
The Ministry of Magic has some authority over ghostly behavior. When Myrtle was stalking Olive Hornby in retaliation for the way Olive tormented her in life, the Ministry was called in and Myrtle was forced to return to Hogwarts and haunt the place of her death, the first-floor girls' restroom.
Ghouls are slimy, buck-toothed, ugly creatures which live in attics or barns of wizards. They are dim-witted and are content to throw things around now and then.
Ghouls are relatively harmless creatures who live on spiders and moths. A ghoul lives in the attic of the Burrow, just above Ron's room. The ghoul makes noises a lot. Giants now live mostly in remote mountain areas, but there was a time when they were a force to be reckoned within the Wizarding World.
The Giants allied themselves with Voldemort in the s and were responsible for many of the worst incidents of killing and torturing, especially of Muggles. A great many of the Giants were killed by Aurors and the rest fled.
Hagrid's mother was a Giant named Fridwulfa. Olympe Maxime is also part Giant. The Gnome is a common garden pest resembling a potato with legs. They live in Gnome-holes underground, where they dig up the roots and generally cause a mess; they're also a dead give-away that a home belongs to a Wizard when there are Gnomes about.
Every so often, a garden must be "de-Gnomed," which involves grasping the Gnomes by the ankles, swinging them around a few times to disorient them, then tossing them out of the garden.
Gnomes are rather dim, so when they realize a de-Gnoming is going on, they all come rushing up out of their holes to see what's going on, making them a lot easier to catch. Crookshanks loved chasing Gnomes around the Weasley's garden and the Gnomes seemed just as much to love being chased.
Griffin: Strange creature with the front body of an eagle and hindquarters of a lion. Griffins are used to guard treasure. There is a statue of a griffin in a corridor in Hogwarts, near the girls' bathroom where Harry, Ron, and Hermione faced a Mountain Troll.
The knocker on the door of Dumbledore's office is shaped like a Griffin. Godric Gryffindor, the founder of Gryffindor house, may have gotten his name from this beast.
A Grindylow is a pale green creature which lives in the weed beds on the bottom of lakes in Britain. Sorry for smaller bounty - SE only lets you increase the bounty on same question if it's posted twice. From that quote, it sounds almost like you can create new species as long as you don't try to sell them. Which might explain how Hagrid got around the law.
Found it! The good news is that the information is actually reliable, out of universe , and comes from HP book and therefore is canon: Hagrid has no intention of ceasing his campaign of intimidation, however. Well done on finding it! You beat my answer by mere seconds, but you have your answer in any case. Don't recall manticores being sentient though -- I remember one was tried like Buckbeak and everyone was too scared to go near it though.
In Fantastic Beasts there is a section "Controls on Selling and Breeding" which talks about how "the Ban on Experimental Breeding has made the creation of new species illegal", but then there's a scribble Harry or Ron's saying "but no one's told Hagrid". I'm assuming they are implying Hagrid did breed experimental creatures Blast-Ended Skrewts maybe? Rita Skeeter saying something isn't proof either in or out of universe. It does come from one of the books, but Rita Skeeter is canonically a liar who makes up what people say.
That doesn't mean Hagrid didn't breed the Blast-Ended Skrewts himself, but her statement isn't particularly good proof. She also said Harry had a tattoo, which was later conclusively disproved when Ron commented on the lack of one when the Order used Polyjuice to turn into him. Harry writing on the section of "Fantastic Beasts" about it being illegal is better proof, since he likes Hagrid and has no reason to lie.
Mac Cooper Mac Cooper 4, 1 1 gold badge 29 29 silver badges 44 44 bronze badges. MA: Can we talk about wandlore a little bit? JN: Come on, people, there's a bigger world out there than Hagrid's backyard. Great find mate! Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Hagrid produces about a hundred Blast-Ended Skrewts for the fourth-year students to study in their Care of Magical Creatures lesson. The newly hatched Skrewts are about six inches long; they look like shell-less lobsters, horribly pale and slimy-looking, and give off a very powerful smell of rotting fish.
Contained in crates, the Skrewts crawl over each other, bumping blindly into the sides of the boxes. Every now and then, sparks fly out of the end of a Skrewt and, with a small phut, it is propelled forward several inches Some of the Blast-Ended Skrewts have stings on them, which Hagrid thinks are the males; the female Skrewts have sucker-like additions on their bellies, which he thinks might be to suck blood.
The Blast-Ended Skrewts have become much larger, growing to nearly three feet long. Hagrid says that the Skrewts have started killing each other and are now being kept in separate crates.
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