Rowling has also written Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a guide to the magical beasts found in the series. The potion tastes horrible and very few are skilled enough to brew it, and according to Lupin, the addition of sugar to the potion renders it useless and inert. For a list of magical plants mentioned in the series, such as mandrakes and devil's snares, see List of fictional plants. Riddle commanded Ginny Weasley to kill all the school roosters remarked upon by Hagrid. From the third book to the sixth, Crookshanks is Hermione Granger's pet cat. Cookies help us deliver our services. Peeves is twice depicted at the conclusion of Deathly Hallows: initially attacking Death Eaters with vicious plants and subsequently singing a victory song for Harry. Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Book; Harry Potter Film Wizardry; Harry Potter Page to Screen: The Complete Filmmaking Journey; LEGO Harry Potter: Building the Magical World; LEGO Harry Potter: Characters of the Magical World The Harry Potter Wiki has 46 images related to, *Disclosure: Some of the links above are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, Fandom will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase. -- Nearly Headless Nick (OP38). There are magizoologists who work in the Ministry of Magic, particularly in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. Griphook is a goblin and an employee at Gringotts until the Second Wizarding War. The Ghost is a minifigure based on Peeves the Poltergeist in Harry Potter. Although its exoskeleton can repel spells, Harry is able to pass it unhurt. Crookshanks is seen in Prisoner of Azkaban talking to Padfoot in the school grounds. They also seemed to enjoy a certain level of authority, as Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington apparently outranked the Caretaker at the school, bidding Argus Filch to award a student ten house points before ordering him to leave the Potions Classroom, where they were caught snooping while, unbeknownst to Filch, researching the Cursed Vaults despite not being allowed to. [16] The Baron is also the only one known to be able to control Peeves. The basilisk attempts to kill several Muggle-borns, but due to good fortune, all its victims were merely petrified. [9][10] Ghosts cannot be destroyed (as they are already dead), but they can be petrified by the gaze of a Basilisk. Realizing what he'd done, he then killed himself. In Deathly Hallows, Nagini consumes Charity Burbage, a Hogwarts Muggle Studies professor, after the Killing Curse is used on her. He is rude, crude, fond of practical jokes, and takes orders from no one other than the Bloody Baron, though he also shows some respect to Dumbledore. When ghost-related decisions must be made, they hold a “ghost’s council” (GF12). Many pets and animals are associated with the Weasley family: Over the course of the series, Hagrid cares for a large number of animals, many of them dangerous, including Aragog (a giant spider or 'Acromantula'), Buckbeak (Hippogriff), Fang (boarhound), Fluffy (Three-Headed Dog), Norbert ('Norwegian Ridgeback' Dragon; later found to be female and re-named Norberta), and Tenebrus (Thestral). There is an Office of House-Elf Relocation at the Ministry of Magic. In the resulting chaos, Harry and his friends see Winky running into the forest, appearing to struggle against the invisible Crouch Jr. Later she is caught with Harry's wand, which is magically proven to be the one used to conjure the Dark Mark; though Crouch Sr realises what happened, he agrees with the apparent conclusion that Winky conjured the mark, and fires her, both to save face and as punishment for failing to control Crouch Jr. In Myrtle's mind, everyone is constantly making fun of her and talking about her behind her back. Peeves and Filch are constantly at war with each other, a conflict Harry and his friends generally do not involve themselves in. Albus Dumbledore harbors an intense dislike of dementors, noting he has long felt the Ministry of Magic erred in "allying" with such creatures, implying that dementor society in general exists apart from the general wizarding world. Following Sirius' death, Harry inherits all of Sirius' possessions, including a highly unwilling Kreacher. Because Harry needs to take a Horcrux from Bellatrix's vault, Griphook reluctantly agrees to help them break into Gringotts, in exchange for the sword of Gryffindor; but when escaping, Griphook betrays them to the other goblins and escapes with the sword.