mythical creatures

[joywitch999]

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No: HPFGUIDX C4340
From: joywitch999
Subject: mythical creatures
Date: 7/15/00 3:14 pm  (ET)

Most of the magical beings in the HP books seem to be creatures who
already exist in mythology -- unicorns, goblins, giants, hags, boggarts,
ghosts, veelas (as Catlady has just explained), poltergeists, centaurs,
trolls, ogres, etc. Some, especially the magical creatures from Hagrids
classes, seem to have been made up by JKR -- hippogriffs, flobberworms,
skerts (sic?), also dementors, etc. But didnt JKR say right before GoF
came out that GoF would introduce beings that she had made up, whereas the
first 3 books had only already-invented mythical creatures? Which are the
new beings in GoF that JKR has invented? Are some of the earlier beings
(such as dementors or hippogriffs) actually lesser-known mythological
beings, or are they JKRs creations?