Monster Gallery: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Main Articles: Aragog Fawkes
Author: the monster philologist
I'm always bored and monsters were the first thing to entertain me
Lupin
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. -J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Buckbeak
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 eagles, with cruel, steel-coloured beaks and large, brilliantly orange eyes. The talons on their front legs were… Read More Buckbeak
Monster Gallery: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Main Articles: The Dementors Buckbeak Lupin
The 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 downward, and what he saw made his stomach contract. There was a hand protruding from the cloak and it was glistening, grayish, slimy-looking,… Read More The Dementors
Monster Gallery: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II (2011)
Main Articles: Serpent of Slytherin The Dementors The Dragon at Gringotts
Aragog
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 was milky white. He was blind. ‘What is it?’ he said, clicking his pincers rapidly.… Read More Aragog
Fawkes
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 ragged bundle. A second later, the bird was flying straight at Harry. It dropped the ragged thing it… Read More Fawkes
Fluffy
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 forbidden corridor on the third floor. And now they knew why it was forbidden. They… Read More Fluffy
Troll 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 gigantic feet. Ron pointed: at the end of a passage to the left, something huge was… Read More Troll in the Dungeon
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