Creatures

Haddock • Creature A type of fish. Read More

Hags • Creature Hags are female magical beings with somewhat evil tendencies, similar to humans but less adept than witches at disguising themselves from Muggles (GF19). The book The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection describes a hag as “a child-eating creature of human appearance, though likely to have more warts than the average… Read More

Harpy • Creature A Harpy is a female monster in the form of a bird with a human face.  … Read More

Three-Headed Dog • Creature A dog with three heads,  Fluffy is the only named one in the series. Read More

Hebridean Black • Creature The Hebridean Black is an aggressive species of dragon, native to the Hebrides Islands of Scotland, that can grow up to thirty feet in length. It is dark with rough scales, ridges along its back, a spiked tail, and bright purple eyes. Read More

Hedgehogs • Creature Hedgehogs are a small, spiny mammal; there are seventeen different species found across Europe, Asia and Africa. European hedgehogs are common in Britain, especially in woodland areas and gardens. Their spines are a defence mechanism: when they feel threatened they curl up in a ball to… Read More

Heliopaths • Creature Heliopaths are spirits of fire — huge flaming creatures that gallop across the ground burning everything in their path. They may be purely creatures of legend or folklore, but Luna believed during Harry’s fifth year that then-Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge had an army of Heliopaths at his command (OP17). Read More

Hidebehind • Creature The Hidebehind is a silver-haired spectre that lives in North America and resembles a tall, skinny bear. It is named for its ability to contort itself in order to hide behind objects of all shapes and sizes. It can also become invisible. The Hidebehind preys upon humanoids, killing them by… Read More

Higher sentient species • Creature While many species of magical creatures possess intelligence and might be considered sentient, such as hags, their dangerous and deadly habits classify them as beasts. Some species, however, are on an equal status with wizardkind and are listed here. Read More

Hinkypunk • Creature The hinkypunk is a little one-legged creature, with the appearance of being made of smoke. The hinkypunk carries a light with which it lures travelers into bogs. Read More

Hippocampus • Creature The hippocampus is a mer-horse, with the head and forequarters of a horse and the hindquarters and tail of a giant fish. Read More

Hippogriffs • Creature Hippogriffs are flying creatures with the head, wings, and forelegs of a giant eagle and the body (including hind legs and tail) of a horse. Their eyes are orange, while individual hippogriff colors vary as those of mundane horses do, including black, bronze, chestnut, grey, and roan. An adult Hippogriff’s… Read More

Hodag • Creature The Hodag is a predatory North American magical creature with fangs, horns, glowing red eyes, and the head of a frog (Pm). Described as being roughly the size of a large canine, the Hodag’s primary prey is the Mooncalf (Pm). Their attraction to No-Maj farms as a result has… Read More

Hog (Boar) • Creature A hog is a type of wild pig and is the animal for which both Hogwarts and Hogsmeade are named. An uncastrated male of this species is often called a boar. Read More

Hoo-hoo • Creature The Hoo-hoo (pronounced HO-oh) is a Japanese firebird, a type of phoenix. Read More

Horklumps • Creature Horklumps are garden pests, originating in Scandanavia but now found throughout northern Europe, that resemble pinkish mushrooms covered with bristles. Horklumps are actually a carnivorous animals rather than plants. Horklumps eat earthworms and are the favourite food of gnomes (FB). They have sinewy tentacles and will quickly overrun an… Read More

Horned toad • Creature The horned toad is actually a lizard, though many refer to it as a toad due to its rounded body. (Wikipedia)… Read More

Horned River Serpent • Creature The Horned River Serpent is a snake-like creature that has a jewel set into its forehead and a house named after it at Ilvermony. Read More

Horned slug • Creature A horned slug is just that, a slug with horns. Read More

Horses and Equine Creatures • Creature

House-elves • Creature House-elves are small humanoid creatures who inhabit large houses belonging to wealthy Wizarding families. They are “bound” to the family of the house, which means they do all manner of menial tasks for them until they die. House-elves are apparently very happy with this arrangement and consider it a matter… Read More

Human-like creatures • Creature This category of creatures is comprised of those that look like normal human beings but which are not (at least some of the time in the case of werewolves). Well-known examples are: Giants Hags Vampires Werewolves… Read More

Non-Human Spiritous Apparitions • Creature Non-Human spiritous apparitions are a strange form of magical creature which have a ghost-like form but which have never been a living being. This category of creatures includes Boggarts and poltergeists (Pm). Read More

Hummingbirds • Creature Hummingbirds are very small birds native to the Americas. They can hover in mid-air and fly in acrobatic ways which most other bird cannot. Read More

Hungarian Horntail • Creature The Hungarian Horntail is a species of dragon native to Hungary which is considered to be the most dangerous of the various breeds of dragon. appearance: black scales, bronze horns, spiked tail eyes: yellow, vertical pupils roar: yowling, screeching scream flame: up to fifty feet food: goats, sheep, humans eggs:… Read More