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Magical creature's

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Magical creature's classification 

• XXXXX: Known wizard killer / impossible to train or 

domesticate. 

• XXXX: Dangerous / requires specialist knowledge / skilled 

wizard may handle. 

• XXX: Competent wizards should cope. 

• XX: Harmless / may be domesticated. 

• X: Boring. 

Magical Creatures by classification 

X 

Flobberworm · Horklump 

XX 

Augurey · Bowtruckle · Chizpurfle · Clabbert · Diricawl · Fairy 

· Ghoul · Gnome · Grindylow · Imp · Jobberknoll · Mooncalf · 

Owl ·Porlock · Puffskein · Ramora · Winged horse 

XXX 

Ashwinder · Billywig · Bundimun · Crup · Doxy · Dugbog · Fire 

crab · Fwooper · Glumbumble · Hippocampus · Hippogriff · 

Jarvey ·Knarl · Kneazle · Leprechaun · Lobalug · Mackled 

Malaclaw · Moke · Murtlap · Niffler · Nogtail · Pixie · Plimpy · 

Pogrebin · Red Cap· Salamander · 

Sea serpent · Shrake · Streeler · Winged horse 

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Centaur · Demiguise · Erkling · Erumpent · Golden Snidget · 

Graphorn · Griffin · Kappa · Kelpie · Merpeople · 

Occamy · Phoenix ·Re'em · Runespoor · Sphinx · Tebo · 

Thestral · Thunderbird · Troll · Unicorn · Winged horse · Yeti 

XXXXX 

Acromantula · Basilisk · Chimaera · Dragon · Lethifold · 

Manticore · Nundu · Quintaped · Werewolf

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X classification 

Flobberworm 

Species information 

Length of average adult 

Ten-inch 

Distinction 

Produces Flobberworm Mucus 

The Flobberworm is a ten-inch, toothless brown worm 

which eats vegetation, especially lettuce and cabbage. It 

is a fairly boring creature, with a Ministry of Magic 

Classification of only X (the lowest possible ranking, or 

"boring"). 

Each end is identical to the other, each end chews 

vegetation and from both it exudes mucus which is 

sometimes used to thicken potions. It moves very little 

and prefers to live in damp ditches. 

Contrary to the claims of Draco Malfoy and his gang, 

which were designed to attack Hagrid and his quality as

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a professor (although he was doing a pretty good job of 

that himself), Flobberworms do not have teeth and do 

not bite. 

Flobberworms are apparently edible and Flobberworm 

fritters are sometimes served for lunch at Hogwarts 

School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, much to the dismay 

of the student body. 

The Flobberworm was notable for being one of the few 

living creatures capable of being Summoned with the 

Summoning Charm. 

"Nobody really liked Care of Magical Creatures, which, 

after the action-packed first class, had become 

extremely dull. Hagrid seemed to have lost his 

confidence. They were now spending lesson after 

lesson learning how to look after flobberworms, which 

had to be some of the most boring creatures in 

existence. 'Why would anyone bother looking after 

them?' said Ron, after yet another hour of poking 

shredded lettuce down the flobberworms' throats." 

—Ron gripes about looking after the flobberworms. 

After losing his nerve during the Hippogriff debacle in his 

first Care of Magical Creatures lesson during the 1993– 

1994 school year, Rubeus Hagrid had his third year 

students raise flobberworms for a term. The exercise 

was completely pointless, as they prefer to be left alone 

and to do nothing. They didn't require much care, 

although they seemed unable to control how much food 

they needed as they will die if overfed. For the students' 

final exam, they simply had to monitor a flobberworm

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and make sure it was alive at the end of the hour 

appointed for the lesson. 

In potions 

Flobberworm mucus is green and sticky and is used to 

thicken potions. Flobberworm mucus is a vital ingredient 

in the Wiggenweld potion. 

• Peter Pettigrew offered to have himself turned into a 

flobberworm while begging Sirius and Remus not to 

hand him over to the Dementors (which is ironic as his 

nickname is Wormtail). 

• Despite not being mammals, flobberworms are 

apparently capable of perspiring.

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Horklump 


Native range 

Scandinavia 

Distinction 

• Resembles fleshy pink mushroom 

• Covered in sparse, coarse black bristles 

Ministry of Magic Classification 

Beast 

X 

The Horklump was a magical creature which resembled 

a fleshy pink mushroom covered in sparse black bristles. 

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Physiology and ecology 

Horklumps originated in Scandinavia, but eventually 

spread throughout northern Europe, and could be found 

in Scotland by 1991. They resembled fleshy pink 

mushrooms covered in a sparse scattering of coarse 

black bristles. Despite their fungi-like appearance, 

Horklumps were animals. Their preferred prey was the 

earthworm, which they hunted using the thin, muscular 

tentacles that they spread underground (similar to how 

fungi spread mycelium). Horklumps were very fast 

breeders and could cover an average-sized garden in 

only a few days. 

Horklumps were the favorite food of the gnome. 

Streeler venom was one of the few known substances 

that could kill Horklumps. 

Use by and interaction with humans 

A bottle of Horklump juice 

Horklumps had no discernible use to wizards and 

witches, according to the famous magizoologist Newt

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Scamander, and were given the classification "X" 

("boring") by the Department for the Regulation and 

Control of Magical Creatures. However, their juice was 

used in a range of healing potions, including the 

Wiggenweld Potion. It was also used to make Herbicide 

Potion. 

It is rumored that Honoria, the aunt of Albus 

Dumbledore, called off her engagement to a wizard 

because she was shocked to catch him in the act of 

fondling some Horklumps (although she insisted it was 

because he was cold-hearted). 

In his book Marauding with Monsters, Gilderoy Lockhart 

wrote of how he once supposedly visited some fans in 

rural Essex, and helped clear a path through their 

Horklump-infested yard. Afterward, the fans allegedly 

offered him some of their homemade Celery and 

Beetroot Wine in gratitude, which he graciously 

declined. However, like most of Lockhart's accounts, this 

story may have been greatly exaggerated or completely 

fabricated. 

Lockhart recommended the following method for 

removing a Horklump in Marauding with Monsters: 

hitting it with a Knockback Jinx, taking a firm hold of it, 

and then twisting and yanking it out of the ground. 

• Given their ability to overrun gardens within days and 

attract problem species, Horklumps are likely viewed as 

pests by Wizardkind. If this is true then it may explain 

why gnomes became so common in the first place; 

biological control is the control of a pest population's

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size by introducing the appropriate predator or parasite 

and so gnomes may have been introduced by wizards 

and witches to their gardens to rid them of Horklumps in 

the past before the gnomes themselves turned pest (a 

danger of this method of pest control). 

• Although Horklumps are referred to as pink, they have 

also been spotted in other colors (such as the yellow or 

green Horklumps). These may represent mutant breeds.

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XX classification 

Augurey 


Feather color 

Greenish-black 

Native range 

• Great Britain 

• Ireland 

• Northern Europe 


Beast 

XX 

The Augurey, also known as the Irish Phoenix, is a thin 

and mournful looking bird, somewhat like a small

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underfed vulture in appearance, with greenish black 

feathers and a sharp beak. Its diet consists of . 

insects, fairies and flies, which it hunts for in the heavy 

rain. Intensely shy, the Augurey lives in a tear-shaped 

nest in thorn and brambles. 

It is native to Great Britain and Ireland, but is also found 

in Northern Europe. It was long believed that the 

mournful cry of the Augurey foretold death, and wizards 

would go to great lengths to avoid Augurey nests. 

However, research determined that the Augurey merely 

sings when it is about to rain. 

Augurey feathers repel ink, making them useless as Quill 

feathers. 

When it was learned that Augureys could foretell the 

coming of rain, they were used as weather forecasters. 

However, the continual moaning from them during the 

winter months was difficult to bear. 

Uric the Oddball once owned fifty pet Augureys. On one 

particularly rainy day, they all cried at once, leading Uric 

to believe that he had died and was now a ghost. This 

led to him giving himself a concussion by trying to walk 

through walls. 

The gloomy, oversized Augurey Hans is the mascot for 

the Liechtenstein National Quidditch team 

Etymology 

The term "augury" most commonly refers to a method 

of divination by studying the flight patterns of birds.

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Bowtruckle 


Eye color 

Brown 

Skin color 

Green 

Native range 

• England 

• Germany 

• Scandinavia 

Height of average adult 

8 inches (maximum) 

Affiliation 

Its Home Tree

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Beast 

XX 

"Bowtruckles, of course! Those little beasts can be 

quite dangerous when they feel threatened." 

—Mathilda Grimblehawk 

The Bowtruckle is immensely difficult to spot, being a 

hand-sized, 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 natural 

habitat. 

Description 

The Bowtruckle can be found in western England, 

southern Germany, and certain Scandinavian forests. A 

Bowtruckle serves as a tree guardian for its home tree, 

which is usually a tree whose wood is of wand quality 

(such as Wiggentree). The twig-like fingers are well 

adapted for digging out wood lice in trees, and can also 

be used as a weapon against a foe when aimed at the 

eyes. It is generally a peaceful creature, but will become 

violent if anything threatens its tree, or even to itself. To 

take leaves or wood from a Bowtruckle's tree, one 

would have to offer it wood lice or fairy eggs as a 

distraction. 

A group of Bowtruckless is called a branch.

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Etymology 

The word "bow" was an old Scottish dialect means 

"dwelling," and "truckle" means "limb of tree" in old 

English dialect. This means "to take a subordinate 

position." 

• bowtruckles help build wooden ladders in the Forbidden 

Forest. 

Bowtruckle Card

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Chizpurfle 


Native range 

Existing worldwide 


Up to a twentieth of an inch with fangs 

Affiliation 

Magic 


Beast 

XX 

A Chizpurfle is a type of very small parasite. Crab-like in 

appearance, they are up to a twentieth of an inch with 

fangs. Magic attracts them and they are commonly 

found in the fur and feathers of Crups and Augureys.

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They attack magical objects like wands and cauldrons, 

gnawing through to the magical core or gorging on the 

last remnants of potions. In the absence of magic, 

Chizpurfles attack Muggle items powered by electricity. 

This explains the sudden failure of various new electrical 

goods. 

Chizpurfle infestations are usually easily handled by 

patented potions on the market, but more severe 

infestations need to be dealt with by the Pest Sub- 

Division of the Department for the Regulation and 

Control of Magical Creatures. 

Etymology 

The word "Chiz" is an English word for "cheat" or 

"swindle", presumably a cognate of "chisel". The word 

"Purfle" is a fur trimming border of a garment. 

• As they feed off of magic, Chizpurfles are thaumavores, 

and as they can also feed off of electricity, they are also 

electrovores, but prefer magic over electricity.

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Clabbert 


Sentience 

Sentient 

Skin color 

Mottled green 

Native range 


Mortality 

Mortal 

Distinction 

• Illuminatale pustle 

• Small horns 

• Sharp Teeth 

• Long legs 

• Webbed hands and feet

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Beast 

XX 

A Clabbert is an arboreal creature that resembles a cross 

between a monkey and a frog. Its smooth skin is mottled 

green, and it has short horns and a wide grinning mouth 

full of razor sharp teeth. 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 danger. It 

feeds on small lizards and birds. 

The Clabbert is generally found in the southern states of 

America, but can now be found worldwide. American 

wizards and witches used to keep Clabberts to give them 

early warning about approaching Muggles. The 

International Confederation of Wizards were forced to 

introduce fines to stop this. Despite looking nice at 

night, a tree full of glowing Clabbert pustules caused 

curious muggle neighbors to wonder why the Wizards 

still had their Christmas lights up in June. 

Etymology 

The word "Clabber" is a Scottish and Anglo-Irish word 

for "mud", "soft dirt", and "wet clay". In US dialect, it 

means "to curdle" or the way to mix a milk.

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Diricawl 


Sentience 

Non-sentient 

Native range 

Mauritius 

Alternative names 

Dodo 


Beast 

XX 

The Diricawl is a plump, fluffy-feathered and flightless 

bird. It has the ability to disappear and reappear 

elsewhere as a means of escaping danger. Muggles are 

aware of the existence of the Diricawl as a dodo (a large, 

extinct, flightless bird). However, since Muggles are not 

aware of its ability to vanish at will, they believe that 

they have hunted the dodo to extinction. The

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International Confederation of Wizards has not seen fit 

to reveal that the animal still exists, since it seems to 

have raised Muggle awareness of the consequences in 

slaying their fellow creatures indiscriminately. 

• The Diricawl's ability to vanish and reappear is similar 

Apparition for wizards. It also is similar to a wizard's use 

of a Portkey, Vanishing Cabinet, or the Floo Network.

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Fairy 


Native range 


Height of average adult 

1-5 inches 


Beast 

XX 

A Fairy is a small human-like creature with large insectlike 

wings, which are either transparent or multi-colored. 

They possess diminutive intelligence, and live mainly in 

woodlands or glades. 

The fairy is a vain creature, and will often allow itself to 

be used as decoration by Wizardkind. Due to their vanity, 

fairies are almost constantly grooming themselves. They

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possess a weak brand of magic that allows it to evade its 

predators such as the Augurey. The fairy cannot speak; 

instead, it makes a high-pitched buzzing noise to 

communicate with its fellow fairies, but they are able to 

laugh in a similar way to the Flitterbies playful buzzing 

with the wings. 

Fairies can lay up to fifty eggs in one go, laying them on 

the underside of leaves. The eggs hatch into brightly 

colored larvae, and, at six-to-ten days, they spin 

themselves into a cocoon. They emerge a month later as 

adult fairies. Bowtruckles eat fairy eggs. 

Muggles' impression of the fairy is a generous one, 

having been ingrained into children's minds in the form 

of "fairy tales". Wizards believe that, of all the magical 

creatures in the world, the fairy, along with the unicorn, 

have received the best Muggle "press". 

Their wings are used as an ingredient in certain potions; 

removing their wings, while it will not kill them, tends to 

cause them extreme annoyance, as it does not play to 

their vanity. 

• Fairies have a wide, many-varied appearance in 

mythology and legend, though they are commonly 

humanoid and possess magical powers of some form. 

The small, insect-winged creatures depicted are 

consistent with the modern depiction of fairies, though 

in more ancient times they were described as more akin 

to angels or trolls, and usually lacked wings. 

• The use of fairies as decorations around Christmas time 

in ways that Muggles use Christmas lights is presumably

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a reference to the fact that said decorations are called 

"fairy lights" in the United Kingdom. This reference is 

reinforced in the series itself, as "fairy lights" is one of 

the passwords used to get into Gryffindor Tower. 

• In Wonderbook: Book of Potions, the method used to 

catch fairies (trapping them in a butterfly net and then 

placing them in a jar)

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Ghoul 


Sentience 

Sentient 

Related to 

Chameleon Ghoul 

Ogre (possibly) 

Hidebehind 

Demiguise 


Beast 

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Acromantula 


Sentience 

Sentient to an unknown degree 

Eye color 

Black (white, if blind) 

Hair color 

Jet-Black 

Related to 

Spider 

Native range 

Island of Borneo, South-east Asia 


Larger than 15 feet

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Distinction 

• Capable of speaking human speech 

• Taste for human flesh 


Beast 

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An Acromantula is a species of giant spider, native to the 

rainforests of Southeast Asia, particularly Borneo where 

it inhabits dense jungles. Acromantulas are believed to 

be a wizard-bred species, designed to guard dwellings or 

treasure hoards, and were first created before the Ban 

on Experimental Breeding in 1965. These giant spiders 

with a taste for human flesh were first spotted in 1794. 

Physical description 

Acromantulas sport eight, black eyes (white if blind) and 

are typically covered in thick black hair, with a leg span 

that can reach up to fifteen feet. They are the size of a 

carthorse, if adult. 

They possess a set of giant chelicerae which they use to 

eat live prey or their own dead kin. Their pincers produce 

a clicking sound when they are agitated or excited. They 

also secrete poison when excited. They are sentient, and 

capable of human speech. 

The fangs contain highly toxic venom, valued at 100 

Galleons a pint in 1996 . 

Reproduction 

The female is usually larger than the male, and can lay up 

to one hundred soft, wide, beach ball-sized eggs at a

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time. They usually hatch in six to eight weeks. [1] 

Acromantula eggs are a Class A Non-Tradeable Goods. 

Social Behavior 

In contrary to most non-magical spiders, Acromantulas 

are social animals, who live in large colonies consisting of 

hundred's of their species. These colonies are led by the 

oldest male and female of said colonies, who are highly 

respected and met with absolute obedience. The 

Acromantula Aragog, for example, was able to keep his 

entire colony from eating Hagrid, despite their instincts 

telling them to attack humans, because he respected 

Hagrid as a friend. 

Acromantulas are capable of forming emotional 

attachments to other sentient beings, but only if they 

are raised well from a very young age. A good example is 

the friendship between Aragog and Hagrid, with the 

latter having raised the giant spider from when he was 

still in his egg. However, this friendship does not 

automatically extend to people associated with whoever 

managed to win the respect of an Acromantula nor do 

other members of a colony automatically treat said 

person as friend, as they will first and foremost treat 

humans and other sentient beings like prey. This is 

demonstrated after Aragog died, the other spiders 

immediately tried to eat Hagrid, despite him being a 

good friend to their former leader. 

Whenever a member of an Acromantula colony dies, his 

or her corpse will be eaten by the other spiders upon 

death. This includes the leaders of a colony. It is not 

known if a dead Acromantula will be mourned by other

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members of its species so it cannot be said for certain if 

this is a funeral rite or simply a way to acquire food. 

The basilisk is the worst enemy of all spiders, including 

Acromantulas, feared so much that they do not even 

dare to speak of it, similar to how wizards of Harry 

Potter's world view Lord Voldemort and use a 

euphemism in place of his name. It is their greatest 

threat due to the basilisk's killing gaze and the fact that 

spiders have many eyes that they are unable to close, 

thus making them highly vulnerable targets. 

Habitat 

Acromantulas tend to reside in thick jungles and heavily 

forested areas, and their webs are large and domeshaped. 

Acromantulas in the Wizarding World 

A colony of Acromantulas was established in the 

Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and 

Wizardry by Aragog and his mate, Mosag. Rubeus Hagrid 

originally kept a young Aragog in a cupboard box in the 

school's dungeons. Aragog was released into the Forest 

by Rubeus Hagrid at about the time of the 1943 opening 

of the Chamber of Secrets. 

During the Third Task of the Triwizard Tournament in 

1995, an Acromantula was positioned close to the 

Triwizard Cup. Harry Potter and Cedric Diggory joined 

forces to defeat it. 

The Forbidden Forest Acromantula colony participated 

in the Battle of Hogwarts in 1998, when the Death Eaters

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drove them out of the Forest, and towards Hogwarts 

Castle. Rubeus Hagrid was captured by the Death Eaters 

after he was lost among the swarm in his efforts to 

protect Aragog's offspring 

Etymology 

The name Acromantula has the Greek ακρος 

(acros/acro), meaning high or "peak," and -mantula, 

from the English "tarantula." True to their name, 

Acromantulas are massive arachnids who tend to spin 

their expansive webs high in tree tops. Despite the 

names bearing a phonetic similarity to Tarantulas, they 

appear more like Wolf Spiders and are, in all depictions, 

araneomorphae. 

The eight eyes of the Acromantula are used to symbolize 

the number eight in the runic alphabet. 

• Harry Potter used Arania Exumai, a stunning or killing 

spell for use against spiders, while attempting to escape 

the Acromantula colony. He learned the spell from Tom 

Riddle upon visiting the latter's sixteen year old memory 

in his diary. The spell was never mentioned in the book. 

• The Acromantulas more closely resemble wolf spiders 

(family Lycosidae) than actual tarantulas (family 

Theraphosidae), but that may reflect upon the fact that 

wolf spiders were the first kind of spider to ever be 

referred to as "tarantulas". 

• Ron pens an added nine "X"s to the Acromantula's 

Classification. This is a reference to his fear of spiders. He 

and Harry also cross out the "unconfirmed" at the end of 

the sentence "Rumors of an Acromantula colony being

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established in Scotland are unconfirmed" and replace it 

with "Confirmed by Harry Potter and Ron Weasley." 

• Acromantulas have two big eyes, at the height of human 

eyes, with a line of four small eyes underneath and an 

eye on each side of the head, human temple height. This 

is a detail that is not specified in the books. 

• The spider that Ron faced off closely resembles a Black 

widow, with the exception of its size.

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