mythical creatures

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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No: HPFGUIDX C4348
From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: mythical creatures
Reply To: [Yahoo! #4340] mythical creatures
Date: 7/15/00 3:37 pm  (ET)

> Some, especially the magical creatures from Hagrids classes, seem to
have been made up by JKR -- hippogriffs, flobberworms, skerts (sic?),
also dementors, etc.

Hippogriffs are real mythology. I think they are used in heraldry, and a
hippogriff appears in a deCamp-Pratt book parodying Orlando Furisos, IIRC
THE INCOMPLEAT ENCHANTER. I've never heard of dementors anywhere but JKR.