Creatures
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Dementor
Dementors are hooded guards of Azkaban that feed on happy memory and can deliver the Dementor’s Kiss. They board the Hogwarts Express in Harry’s third year, guard the school…
Hedwig
Hedwig is the snowy owl who carries Harry Potter’s post from his first term at Hogwarts until the flight from Privet Drive in the last book. She is bought in Diagon Alley, lives…
House-elf
House-elves are bound servants of old wizarding houses. They can apparate inside Hogwarts, and they punish themselves when they disobey. Dobby serves the Malfoys until Harry…
Buckbeak
Buckbeak is a hippogriff in Hagrid’s Care of Magical Creatures class. He bows to Harry and later attacks Draco Malfoy after being insulted, which leads to a Ministry execution…
Blast-Ended Skrewt
Blast-Ended Skrewts are the dangerous crossbreeds Hagrid raises during the Triwizard year, part fire-crab and part manticore by his account. They scorch, sting, and grow armor.…
Fawkes
Fawkes is Albus Dumbledore’s phoenix. He burns and is reborn, cries healing tears, and can carry a great weight. In the Chamber of Secrets he brings the Sorting Hat, blinds the…
Thestral
Thestrals are skeletal winged horses that pull the Hogwarts carriages. They are visible only to people who have seen death and understood it. Harry first sees them at the start…
Boggart
A Boggart takes the shape of whatever a person fears most, and it is weakest when the room laughs. Remus Lupin teaches the charm Riddikulus by facing one in a wardrobe. Harry’s…
Aragog
Aragog is an Acromantula whom Hagrid raised from an egg and hid in the Forbidden Forest after Tom Riddle blamed the spider for the first opening of the Chamber. He speaks to…
Fluffy
Fluffy is a giant three-headed dog whom Hagrid lends to Dumbledore to guard the trapdoor hiding the Philosopher’s Stone. Music puts the dog to sleep. Harry, Ron, and Hermione…
Basilisk
The Basilisk of Salazar Slytherin is a giant serpent set in the Chamber of Secrets. Its stare kills, and a reflected or indirect look petrifies. Tom Riddle’s memory opens the…
Norbert
Norbert is a Norwegian Ridgeback dragon hatched from an egg won by Rubeus Hagrid. The hatchling is illegal, bites Ron, and is smuggled out of the castle to a reserve in Romania,…
Nagini
Nagini is the large snake who stays with Voldemort. She bites Arthur Weasley in one of Harry’s visions. Harry later learns she is a Horcrux, and Neville Longbottom kills her with…
Mandrake
A Mandrake is a plant with a humanoid root whose cry can kill. Hogwarts students repot young Mandrakes while wearing earmuffs. The mature plants are used in the Restorative…