The Basilisk
Of the many fearsome beasts and monsters that roam our land, there is none more curious or more deadly than the Basilisk, known also as the King of Serpents. Joanne Rowling’s Harry Potter series began...
View ArticleGuest Stars: The Hungarian Horntail
Hungarian Horntail is the label given to a Dragon species in Joanne Rowling’s Harry Potter series of novels. Specifically, one single individual of this monstrous species appears in the fourth book,...
View ArticleMonster Gallery: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001)
Main Articles: Mountain Troll of the Wizarding World Fluffy Norbert Firenze
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All at once there was a scraping noise and the egg split open. The baby dragon flopped on to the table. It wasn’t exactly pretty; Harry thought it looked like a crumpled, black umbrella. Its spiny...
View ArticleTroll in the Dungeon
Harry sniffed and a foul stench reached his nostrils, a mixture of old socks and the kind of public toilet no one seems to clean. And then they heard it – a low grunting and the shuffling footfalls of...
View ArticleFluffy
For a moment, he was sure he’d walked into a nightmare – this was too much, on top of everything that had happened so far. They weren’t in a room, as he had supposed. They were in a corridor. The...
View ArticleSerpent of Slytherin
Something huge hit the stone floor of the chamber, Harry felt it shudder. He knew what was happening, he could sense it, could almost see the giant serpent uncoiling itself from Slytherin’s mouth....
View ArticleFawkes
A crimson bird the size of a swan had appeared, piping its weird music to the vaulted ceiling. It had a glittering golden tail as long as a peacock’s and gleaming golden talons, which were gripping a...
View ArticleAragog
From the middle of the misty domed web, a spider the size of a small elephant emerged, very slowly. There was grey in the black of his body and legs, and each of the eyes on his ugly, pincered head...
View ArticleMonster Gallery: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II (2011)
Main Articles: Serpent of Slytherin Ukrainian Ironbelly
View ArticleThe Dementors
Standing in the doorway, illuminated by the shivering flames in Lupin’s hand, was a cloaked figure that towered to the ceiling. Its face was completely hidden beneath its hood. Harry’s eyes darted...
View ArticleMonster Gallery: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Main Articles: The Dementors Buckbeak Lupin
View ArticleBuckbeak
Trotting towards them were a dozen of the most bizarre creatures Harry had ever seen. They had the bodies, hind legs and tails of horses, but the front legs, wings and heads of what seemed to be giant...
View ArticleLupin
There was a terrible snarling noise. Lupin’s head was lengthening. So was his body. His shoulders were hunching. Hair was sprouting visibly on his face and hands, which were curling into clawed paws....
View ArticleMonster Gallery: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Main Articles: Aragog Fawkes
View ArticleThe Lake Folk
A cluster of crude stone dwellings stained with algae loomed suddenly out of the gloom on all sides. Here and there at the dark windows, Harry saw faces… faces that bore no resemblance at all to the...
View ArticleThestrals
The coaches were no longer horseless. There were creatures standing between the carriage shafts. If he had had to give them a name, he supposed he would have called them horses, though there was...
View ArticleMonster Gallery: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Main Articles: The Dementors Thestrals
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