cats
and cat-like creatures

• McGonagall becomes a tabby cat with eye markings (SS1)
• Mrs. Figg's cats: Tibbles, Snowy, Mr. Paws, Tufty (SS2)
• they make Hagrid sneeze (SS5)
• lots of them on Platform 9 3/4 (SS
• Crookshanks
• Millicent Bulstrode has a black one (
• Mrs. Norris (SS8 etc.)
• Cats of every color for sale at "Magical Menagerie" (PA4)
• Kneazle (FB)
• J.K.Rowling's suggestive comment about cats in the books:
 Q: Is there something more to the cats appearing in the books than first meets the eye? (i.e. Mrs. Figg's cats, Crookshanks, Prof. McGonagall as a cat, etc.)
 A: Ooooo, another good question. Let's see what I can tell you without giving anything away....erm....no, can't do it, sorry. (Sch2)
• Rowling does not like cats, an attitude she gave to Hagrid in the books.

Centaur
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Centaurs are very mysterious creatures. They avoid Muggles and Wizards alike (FB). 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 forseen. They prefer simply to observe (SS15). The Centaurs have chosen to be considered Beasts by the Ministry (FB) and do not take part in governing at all.
A number of Centaurs live in the Forbidden Forest, including
     Ronan (SS15) 
     Bane (SS15)
  Firenze (SS15)
 
 
 

Chameleon Ghoul
These ghouls are known to pretend to be suits of armor (CS10)

Chimaera
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(FB)
Greek: lion's head, goat's body, dragon's tail. Vicious and bloodthirsty. Chimaera eggs are classified as Class A Non-Tradable Goods. Dai Lleweleyn, the famous Quidditch player, was killed by a Chimaera while on holiday in Greece.

Chizpurfle
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(FB)
A magical parasite which lives in the fur or feathers of some magical creatures, Can also infest magical items. (FB)

Clabbert
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This arboreal creature resembles a cross between a monkey and a frog. It's smooth skin is mottled green. The Clabbert has short horns and a wide grinning mouth.. It's 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, included Muggles. 

Cornish Pixie
see Pixie

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

Demiguise
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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. (FB)

Diricawl
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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 (and associated guilt) has spurred more enlightened attitudes toward the animal world among many Muggles, Wizards have encouraged it. (FB)

dogs
and dog-like creatures

• hellhound
• Fang
• Fluffy
• Crup
• Grim
• boarhound

Dragon
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Dragons, large flying reptiles which 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.

• Antipodean Opaleye (New Zealand)
• Chinese Fireball (Liondragon) (China)
• Common Welsh Green (Wales)
• Hebridean Black (Hebrides)
• Hungarian Horntail (Hungary)
• Norwegian Ridgeback (Norway)
• Peruvian Vipertooth (Peru)
• Romanian Longhorn (Romania)
• Swedish Short-Snout (Sweden)
• Ukrainian Ironbelly (Ukraine)

Erkling
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The Erkling is a small elf-like creature native to Germany. It's high-pitched laugh is particularly entrancing to children, which the Erklings like to eat. Erkling killings have decreased dramatically over the last few hundred years as the German Ministry of Magic has put in place strict controls over the creatures. (FB)
"Rowling has transposed a few letters in the name of the Erl King...of German legend. Otherwise, her description holds true. It is an evil creature in the Black Forest of Germany that tries to snatch children." (p. 26)

Erumpent
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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. (FB)

Fairy
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Tiny creatures which look like perfectly formed humans with insect wings. Fairies have very limited intelligence. They are extremely vain and quarrelsome. They like nothing better than to serve as decoration. Fairies have their own weak form of magic which they use primarily to avoid being eaten by predators. (FB) Flitwick decorated his classroom with them (PA10) and the garden was decorated with them for Yule Ball (GF23). Fairies cannot speak, but communicate with each other using a form of buzzing.

fairy-like creatures

• Fairy
• Doxy
• Imp
• Leprechaun
• Pixie

• Buckbeak enjoys a plate of dead ferrets (PA14)
• Mad-Eye Moody turns Draco into one (GF13)
• Mortlake owned some extremely odd ferrets (CS

Firenze (fy-REN-zee)
A Centaur of the forbidden forest, Firenze has made the bold decision to ally himself with humans against the evil that he saw stalking the forest in the person of Quirrell/Voldemort. This put Firenze at odds with Bane and Ronan, who felt that it was the duty of a Centaur to remain a neutral observer. Firenze, in spite of the feelings of the other Centaurs, rescued Harry from Quirrell/Voldemort in the forest on May 26, 1992 (SS).
In the film, Firenze is played by Ray Fearon. Hagrid mispronounces the name "fear-ENZ." (SS/f)

fish and other water creatures

• Lobalug
• Hippocampus
• Merperson
• Plimpy
• Ramora
• Shrake

Flobberworm
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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 (PA6, FB).

Fluffy
Fluffy is a huge, three-headed dog 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, 1991, Snape was bitten on the leg. Later, Quirrell used a harp to play Fluffy to sleep long enough to slip through the trap door. (SS11) 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 (BP)

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. Steve Kloves, the scriptwriter, stated during a writers' conference that he wrote it as "Greek chappie," but that it was somehow changed to "Irish chappie" during filming. However, the draft of the script dated September clearly shows "Irish chappie."

Ford Anglia
A bewitched and semi-sentient car, now running wild in the Forbidden Forest (CS15)

frog
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 (

See Toads and Frogs

"furballs"
(okay, did anyone else immediately think of tribbles when they read this?) 
Custard-colored furballs, humming loudly, were for sale in the Magical Menagerie (PA4); these are probably Puffskeins.

Fwooper
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African bird with brightly-colored feathers. The Fwooper song will drive the listener insane and must therefore be sold with a Silencing Charm on it. (FB)

Ghoul
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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 (CS, GF10)
Chameleon ghouls - known to pretend to be suits of armor (CS10)

Giant
(GF23, GF24)
The race of Giants now lives mostly in remote mountain areas, but there was a time when they were a force to be reckoned with in the Wizarding World. The Giants allied themselves with Voldemort in the 1970s 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 (GF). Olympe Maxime is also part Giant.
Famous vicious giant: Hengist of Upper Barnton (fw26)
Full-blooded giants are about twenty feet tall. (GF24)
Gifford Ollerton, who lived in the 1400s, was a famous giant-slayer.(fw26)

Glumbumble
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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 (garden)
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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 (Sch1). 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 (CS3). Crookshanks loved chasing Gnomes around the Weasley's garden and the Gnomes seemed just as much to love being chased (GF5). (also FB)

goat
The bezoar, a stone used in antidotes, comes from the stomach of a goat (SS

Goblin

• quite short; swarthy, clever faces; pointed beard; long fingers and feet (SS5)
• Gringotts is run by Goblins (SS5)
• Many Goblin rebellions and uprisings took place in the 1600s (SS
• Griphook (SS5)
• Elfric the Eager - Uprising of (SS16)
• bet with Ludo Bagman (GF
• very clever, can battle wizards (GF24)

Griffin
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Strange creature with the front body of an eagle and hindquarters of a lion. Griffins are used to guard treasure. (FB)
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 (SS10). 
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.

Grim (barghest)
The Grim is a ghostly image of a large dog-like beast; seeing one portends death (PA6)

Grindylow
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A Grindylow is a pale green creature which 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. Lupin taught his third year students about them (PA8)
Grindylows in the lake near Hogwarts attacked the Triwizard champions during the second task. (GF26)

Griphook
Griphook is a Goblin working at Gringotts Wizarding Bank. He escorts Harry and Hagrid down below the surface in the cart, stopping first at Harry's vault, then at vault 713, a high security vault. (SS5)

Gytrash
The Gytrash is a huge, spectral hound which lives in the forest. 
The Gytrash, in the form of a huge dog, horse, or mule, haunts solitary places; it is found in the folklore of Northern England.
(CS video game; reference: interview with Derek Proud, one of the game designers, who specifically states that JKR designed this creature for them, Queensland, Australia, Courier Mail, Oct 12, 2002)