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Banshee
A Dark creature with the appearance of a woman with floor-length black hair and a skeletal, green-tinged face. Its screams will kill.

Basilisk (the King of Serpents)
A wizard-bred Dark creature of enormous power, this extremely poisonous giant serpent is brilliant green in color with long thin saber-like fangs and bulbous yellow eyes. A basilisk can live for at least 900 years given an adequate food supply, and as it can eat most vertebrates (including humans), this is not difficult to achieve. The male can be distinguished from the female by the scarlet plume on its head, but basilisks are usually magically rather than normally bred.

Bicorn creature from Muggle legends or mythology
Horn of this creature is used as a potion ingredient. The name "bicorn" suggests a creature with two horns. The Bicorn is a mythical demonic creature which eats human flesh.

Billywig
A magical insect, native to Australia.It is about a half-inch long and vivid blue in color. A Billywig's sting causes giddiness and levitation. For this reason, the Billywig's sting is highly sought after by Australian wizards. Dried Billywig stingers are useful as a potion ingredient.

Blast-Ended Skrewt
Magical creatures bred by Hagrid prior to the autumn of 1994 by crossing manticores with fire-crabs. Blast-Ended Skrewts are some of the most revolting creatures ever seen.

Boggart
A shape shifter that prefers to live in dark, confined spaces, taking the form of the thing most feared by the person it encounters; nobody knows what a boggart looks like in its natural state.

Boomslang Muggle
African snake, Dispholidus typus, with extremely nasty venom. The skin, which is mostly green in males and mostly brown in females, serves the snake well as camouflage, and is used for Polyjuice Potion. Snape keeps boomslang skin in his private stores.

Bowtruckle
A small insect-eating tree-dweller with long sharp fingers (two on each hand), brown eyes, and a general appearance of a flat-faced little stickman made of bark and twigs, which serves well as camouflage in its native habitat.

Bundimun
Greenish fungus with eyes. An infestation of Bundimuns can destroy a house, as their secretions rot away the foundations.

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Centaur
Centaurs are very mysterious creatures. They avoid Muggles and wizards alike. Centaurs watch and read the signs in the stars and planets and they do not take sides in the events unfolding around them, which they have foreseen. They prefer simply to observe. The centaurs have chosen to be considered Beasts by the Ministry and do not take part in governing at all.

Chameleon Ghoul
These ghouls are known to pretend to be suits of armor.

Chimaera
Greek: lion's head, goat's body, dragon's tail. Vicious and bloodthirsty.

Chimaera eggs are classified as Class A Non-Tradable Goods.
Dai Llewellyn, the famous Caerphilly Catapults player, was killed by a Chimaera while on holiday in Greece.

Chizpurfle
A magical parasite that lives in the fur or feathers of some magical creatures, and can also infest magical items.

Clabbert
This arboreal creature resembles a cross between a monkey and a frog.

Its smooth skin is mottled green.
The Clabbert has short horns and a wide grinning mouth.

Its long arms and webbed hands and feet allow it to move gracefully through the trees.
On the Clabbert's forehead is a large pustule which flashes red when the Clabbert senses the approach of danger, including Muggles.

Cockatrice
A combination of a rooster and a dragon or snake.

Crup
Magical creature that strongly resembles a Jack Russell terrier, except that a Crup has a forked tail. Crups are extremely loyal to wizards and ferocious toward Muggles. They eat almost anything.

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Dementor
Allied with Lord Voldemort, dementors are perhaps the darkest creatures of all.

Demiguise
The Demiguise is a peaceful, herbivorous creature that can make itself invisible. It resembles an ape with large, black eyes and long, silky hair. This hair can be woven into Invisibility Cloaks. The Demiguise is native to the Far East .

Diricawl
This plump, flightless bird escapes danger by vanishing in a burst of feathers. Muggles knew this bird as the "dodo" and believe that it is extinct, being unaware of its ability to vanish at will. Because this belief has spurred more enlightened attitudes toward the animal world among many Muggles, wizards have encouraged it.

Doxy (Biting Fairy)
The Doxy is a small fairy-like creature that is covered with black hair. They have sharp venomous teeth. Doxies are pests. They can infest houses, taking up residence in the draperies. Removing them requires a good supply of Doxycide. It's a good idea to have an antidote for Doxy venom on hand as well.

Dragons
Dragons, large flying reptiles that breathe fire, are some of the most awe-inspiring and dangerous of all magical beasts. There are ten varieties of dragons in the world today.

Dugbog
This strange creature looks like just another hunk of dead wood floating in the marshes in which is lives. The Dugbog has finned paws and sharp teeth with which is attacks small mammals. The Dugbog is particularly fond of Mandrakes.

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Erkling
The Erkling is a small elf-like creature native to Germany. Its high-pitched laugh is particularly entrancing to children, which Erklings like to eat. Erkling killings have decreased dramatically over the last few centuries as the German Ministry of Magic has put in place strict controls over the creatures .

Erumpent
This huge African magical beast resembles a rhinoceros. Its horn, which can pierce almost anything, contains a fluid which explodes, destroying what it has hit. Because male Erumpents frequently blow each other up during mating season, the species is somewhat endangered.

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Fairy
Tiny creatures that look like perfectly formed humans with insect wings. They are extremely vain and quarrelsome, liking nothing better than to serve as decoration.

Fire-Crab
The Fire-Crab looks like a tortoise with a jeweled shell which can shoot fire out of its rear end. It is constantly in danger of being killed for its shell, which unscrupulous wizards will use as cauldrons. The Fire-Crab is native to Fiji, where there is a coastal reserve set aside for its protection.

Fire Slugs
Creatures which live in the Brazilian rain forests. Newt Scamander is currently studying them.

Flesh-Eating Slug
A frightening creature, since someone was scared enough of them to turn a Boggart into it.

Flobberworm
A ten-inch, toothless brown worm which eats vegetation, especially lettuce. The mucus it exudes is used to thicken potions. 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.

Frog Muggle
Ron has a big one in a tank in his room. They also live in the Weasleys' garden pond. Frogs are used in potion making.

Fwooper
African bird with brightly-colored feathers. A Fwooper's song will drive the listener insane, so each bird must be sold with a Silencing Charm on it.

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Ghoul
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.

Giant
Once all over the world, very few giants remain today.

Glumbumble
The Glumbumble is a magical furry insect. It produces a fluid which causes melancholy. This fluid is used as an antidote for the hysteria which results from eating Alihotsy leaves. Glumbumbles eat nettles.

Gnome
The gnome is a common garden pest resembling a potato with legs. Gnomes live in gnome-holes underground, where they dig up plant roots and generally cause a mess; their presence is also a dead give-away that a home belongs to a witch or wizard.

Goat Muggle
The bezoar, comes from the stomach of a goat.

Goblin
A race of highly intelligent magical beings who coexist with wizarding society Graphorn

A large, grayish-purple creature which lives in the mountains of Europe. Graphorns have two extremely sharp horns. They are extremely dangerous animals. Graphorn horns are useful for potions and Graphorn hide is even tougher than dragons' and also repels spells.
Griffin

Strange creature with the front body of an eagle and hindquarters of a lion. Griffins are used to guard treasure.
Grim

The Grim is a ghostly image of a large dog-like beast; seeing one portends death.
Grindylow

A grindylow is a pale green creature that lives in the weed beds on the bottom of lakes in Britain. It is also known as a water demon. Grindylows have long, brittle fingers which they use to grip their prey, sharp little horns, and green teeth.
Gytrash

The Gytrash is a huge, spectral hound that lives in the forest.
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Hag

Female human-like magical being, but less adept than a witch at disguising herself from Muggles. Hags are what one might refer to as "fairy tale witches." Hags are wild in appearance, and they have been known to eat children, although at the Leaky Cauldron Harry once saw a hag eating raw liver. Hags can be quite frightening, apparently, since Quirrell had a "nasty bit of business" with one during his year off for first-hand experience in fighting the Dark Arts. Interested parties may also consult Gilderoy Lockhart's book Holidays with Hags (CS4), which probably can be picked up quite cheaply at Flourish and Blotts, Diagon Alley, London, UK these days.
Hellhound

Muggle name for the sleepless three-headed dog.
Hinkypunk

A little one-legged creature, with the appearance of being made of smoke, the hinkypunk carries a light with which it lures travelers into bogs.
Hippocampus

A Mer-horse, with the head and forequarters of a horse and the hindquarters and tail of a giant fish.
Hippogriff

A flying creature with the head, wings, and forelegs of a giant eagle and the body of a horse. The eyes are orange, while individual hippogriff colours vary as those of mundane horses do, including black, bronze, chestnut, grey, and roan. An adult hippogriff's wingspan is approximately 24 feet.
Horklump

This garden pest resembles a pinkish mushroom covered with bristles, but is actually a carnivorous animal rather than a plant. Horklumps are the favourite food of gnomes.
Horned Toad

Neville once had to disembowel an entire barrel full of horned toads while in detention with Snape. Afterward, Ron fantasized about Mad-Eye Moody turning Snape into a horned toad, similar to the 'amazing bouncing ferret' punishment inflicted on Draco Malfoy. Horned toads are really lizards, and very fearsome-looking lizards at that.
Winged Horse

Twelve palomino horses the size of elephants pull the Beauxbatons carriage as it flies through the sky. These magnificent animals are very powerful and require forceful handling. They drink only single-malt whiskey House-elf
A house-elf is a short intelligent creature with large bat-like ears, enormous eyes, and often a servile attitude.

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Imp
The imp is similar to the pixie and the fairy. It is about seven inches tall and is colored dull brown or black. Imps live in damp or marshy areas. They have a somewhat slapstick sense of humor and they love to trip people so they fall into a stream. They eat small insects.

Inferius
The Inferi are animated corpses who do the bidding of the Dark Wizard who created them.

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Jarvey
Resembling an overgrown ferret, the Jarvey is one of the few beasts that can actually talk. Its speech, however, consists entirely of rude phrases and insults. Jarveys chase gnomes .

Jobberknoll
A tiny blue speckled bird which makes no sound until the moment of its death, when it lets out a long scream consisting of all the sounds it has ever heard; their feathers are important ingredients in making potions that affect memory .

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Kappa
A water-dweller resembling a scaly monkey with webbed hands, a kappa will grab and strangle waders in its pond.

Kelpie
The world's biggest and most famous kelpie is the Loch Ness Monster, although it is often mistaken for a sea serpent.

Knarl
Very similar to a hedgehog, except that the knarl takes offense easily and will wreak havoc on garden plants.

Kneazle
This very intelligent cat-like creature can detect unsavory or suspicious persons very well and will react badly to them. However, if a kneazle takes a liking to a witch or wizard, it makes an excellent pet. The kneazle has spotted fur, large ears, and a lion-like tail.

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Lacewing
These insects are used as potion ingredients. They are small insects with large, transparent wings. Lacewing flies eat aphids.

Leech
A small slug-like creature that lives in water. Leeches attach themselves to other creatures and suck their blood. Leeches are used as potion ingredients, both sliced and in the form of leech juice. web link about leeches.

Leprechaun
A tiny vegetarian creature resembling a little green human, the leprechaun is one of the occasional anomalies of the beast/being classification system. Although they alone of the "little people" have the ability to speak human language, they are classified as beasts, and have remained in that category as they have never requested re-classification. They are able to produce a gold-like substance that vanishes after an hour or two.

Lethifold
This dangerous beast resembles a half-inch thick black cloak which moves along the ground at night, hunting its prey. It attacks sleeping humans, smothers them, then digests them, all in their bed, leaving no trace at all. The only defense against a lethifold is a Patronus Charm. Thankfully, this frightening creature is rare, only found in the tropics .

Liondragon
The Chinese Fireball dragon is sometimes known by this name.

Lobalug
A sea creature consisting of a poison sac and a spout, the lobalug is used as a weapon by merpeople.

Loch Ness Monster
The largest known and most famous kelpie on Earth; its favourite form is that of a sea serpent.

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Mackled Malaclaw
A creature of the shore and coastline, resembling a lobster. The malaclaw's bite gives the victim bad luck for up to a week.

Manticore
A sentient creature, capable of intelligent speech but not classified as a being due to its violent tendencies, a manticore has a human-like head, a lion's body, and the tail of a scorpion. The tail secretes a venom that is instantly fatal to a victim of its sting. A manticore's skin repels virtually all known charms, so it is extremely difficult to subdue by magic.

Merpeople
Sentient beings who live underwater in villages at the bottom of lakes and seas. Specific races of merpeople are also known as sirens (Greece), selkies (Scotland), and merrows (Ireland).

Merrowcreature
A Merperson from the lakes and seas of Ireland.

Moke
A small lizard that can shrink at will.

Mooncalf
A strange creature that lives in a burrow. It only comes out at the full moon, when it dances on its enormous flat feet, sometimes leaving intricate patterns in wheatfields (much to the confusion of Muggles). The silvery dung of the mooncalf, if collected before the sun comes up, makes an excellent fertilizer.

Mummy
The preserved remains of a body, human or animal, from which fluids have been removed. Although mummification can occur through natural processes in very dry conditions, the most common conception of a mummy is that of one deliberately embalmed as a preparation for burial, for which additional preservative measures have been performed. In ancient Egypt, mummification was performed on the bodies of humans and of cats, and was considered a necessary step in preparing the deceased for the afterlife.

Murtlap
A seashore-dwelling rodent native to Britain, this ratlike creature has on its back a growth resembling a sea anemone, which when pickled can be used to promote resistance to curses. The murtlap will attack anyone who steps on it, although it usually eats crustaceans, not people's feet.

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Niffler
A black fluffy long-snouted creature which burrows in dirt as if it were water. Although nifflers are gentle and even affectionate, they are strongly attracted to anything shiny, which can make them difficult to control. They can be very useful for finding treasure, and are often kept by goblins for this purpose (GF28). Native to Britain, nifflers live in lairs up to 20 feet underground and have litters of 6 - 8 young.

Nogtail
Found in rural areas across Europe, Russia, and America; a Dark Creature resembling a piglet, but stunted with narrow black eyes, a thick stubby tail, and long legs. Nogtails curse farms. A nogtail slips into a pigsty and suckles an ordinary pig; the longer it goes undetected, the longer the curse that falls upon the farm. The nogtail is very fast and difficult to catch, but if chased off the farm by a pure white dog it will never return. See the Pest Sub-Division of the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures for assistance with nogtail problems .

Nundu
Considered by many to be the most dangerous beast in existence, the nundu is a gigantic leopard, native to East Africa, whose breath carries disease and death. Whole villages have been wiped out by the nundu, and no nundu has ever yet been subdued by fewer than a hundred wizards working together.

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Occamy
A beautiful, carnivorous creature native to India and the Far East, resembling a winged snake, but plumed, having two legs, and reaching up to fifteen feet in length. As occamy eggshells are formed from pure soft silver, the occamy's reputation for aggression may be overstated, as most of its interaction with humans probably has consisted of defense of its eggs .

Owl
These birds provide postal service for the Wizarding World. Although Muggles know about them, they are obviously magical to some extent, since their ability to find the recipient of their letters is extraordinary indeed.

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Phoenix
Swan-sized bird with red and gold plumage, golden beak, and golden talons.

Plimpy
A kind of fish, shaped like a ball with two long, rubbery legs and webbed feet. If you happen to spot a plimpy with its legs tied in a knot, you will know that merpeople are around.

Pogrebin
These annoying little creatures are native to Russia. They love to follow people around, infusing them with a sense of hopelessness until the human collapses, at which point the pogrebin attempts to devour them. The Pogrebin resembles a grey rock with a small hairy body and it hides by crouching down and pretending to be nothing but a harmless stone.

Porlock
Found in Dorset, England and in southern Ireland, this short, shaggy creature walks on two cloven-hoofed feet and feeds on grass. Its small arms end in four fingers.

Puffskein
A long-tongued custard-coloured little furball that makes a calming purring noise. These pleasant creatures are often kept as pets, particularly by wizarding children.

Pygmy Puff
Sold by Fred and George in Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, Pygmy Puffs are miniature puffskeins, "round balls of fluff in shades of pink and purple," that sell so quickly they can't breed them fast enough.

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Quintaped
A highly dangerous carnivore covered in thick reddish-brown hair, having five clubfooted legs and a low-slung body. It has a particular taste for humans.

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Rabbit Muggle
A fat white rabbit in the Magical Menagerie transformed itself into a top hat and back again. It is unclear if this is a magical creature or if it had simply been enchanted to perform this bit of Transfiguration.

Ramora
Powerfully magical silver-coloured fish from the Indian Ocean, a protected species that in turn is a guardian of seafarers, as the ramora is capable of anchoring ships. It is protected from poaching by international wizarding law.

Rat
In the Magical Menagerie was a cage full of black rats which were busy jumping rope with their tails; the saleswitch implied that they would live longer than a common rat's three-year lifespan. Rat Animagi appear to have some ability to communicate with ordinary rats.

Raven
Ravens were for sale on Diagon Alley.

Red Cap
Small, goblin-like/dwarflike creatures, Red Caps love bloodshed, and will attempt to beat to death Muggles lost in dungeons or on battlefields on dark nights.

Re'em
Native to the wilds of North America and the Far East, this extremely rare golden-furred giant ox's blood gives the drinker immense strength. However, since demand far exceeds supply, re'em blood is found on the open market only rarely.

Runespoor
A magical three-headed, snake commonly reaching a length of 6 - 7 feet, coloured livid orange with black banding; native to Burkina Faso, where several forests are designated as preserves for its sole use. The runespoor is unique among known magical beasts for producing its eggs through its mouths.

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Salamander
A small, brilliant white, fire-dwelling lizard that feeds on flame, although it can survive up to six hours outside a fire if regularly fed pepper. A salamander lives only as long as the fire from which it sprang, scampering along burning logs and among the coals, and its colour appears blue or scarlet depending on the heat of the fire in which it appeared. Salamander blood has powerful curative and restorative properties.

Sea Serpent
A gigantic, snake-like beast with a horselike head and a long snakelike body rising in humps out of the sea as it moves through the water; found in the Atlantic, Mediterrean, and Pacific Oceans. The sea serpent has received very bad Muggle press, in this case unjustified. Although many Muggle legends have grown up around sightings of the creatures, usually tales of horror and death, in reality sea serpents are harmless; there is no record of a sea serpent ever harming a human. See also the Loch Ness kelpie, which favours taking this form.

Shrake
A magically-created species of saltwater fish, found in the Atlantic Ocean, which is covered in spines and which deliberately seeks out and destroys Muggle fishing nets. The first shrake were supposedly created in the 1800s by a group of wizard fisherfolk who had been insulted by Muggles. The shrake, by damaging the nets used by Muggles to fish in that area of the sea, cause no end of trouble.

Snails
Poisonous orange snails were for sale in the Magical Menagerie; they could have been streelers.

Snidget
A small, spherical bird which can fly with amazing agility, changing speed and direction almost instantaneously. Its golden feathers and red, jewel-like eyes are so prized that at one time the snidget was hunted almost to extinction. The fact that a snidget became such an integral part of the game of Quidditch didn't help matters either. The snidget became a protected species; there are now severe penalties for harming or even capturing one.

Sphinx
Native to Egypt, this human-headed creature has a lion-like body, the capacity for human speech, and an innate love of puzzles and riddles, but due to its violent tendencies it has been placed in the 'beast' rather than the 'being' category.

Squid
The largest invertebrate known to Muggle science, the giant squid can grow to 70 feet. Speaking more specifically, at least one giant squid lives in the lake near Hogwarts castle, and seems to be more or less friendly toward the inhabitants.

Streeler
Giant African snail that changes colour every hour, and deposits a trail of venom as it moves that kills and shrivels all vegetation over which it passes, and which can kill horklumps. It is often kept as a pet.


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Tadfoal

The young of the Hippocampus is called a Tadfoal.
Thestral

A carnivorous black winged horse, skeletal and reptilian, which supposedly brings bad luck.
Tebo

Like the Diricrawl, the Tebo can become invisible at will. It is a warthog-like creature native to central Africa.
Troll

There are three types of trolls: Mountain, Forest, and River. Troll language supposedly consists of grunting and pointing.
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Unicorn

A white horse-like creature with a single horn on its head.
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Vampire

Veela W
Werewolf
A werewolf is a human who has been infected with lycanthropy.

Wood Nymph
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Yeti

Native to Tibet, this tall (up to 15 feet) white-furred humanoid creature may be related to the troll but as it will attempt to attack and eat any human that it meets, no witch or wizard has had an opportunity to study a living yeti at close range.