[HPforGrownups] Heraldry

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 13854

Amanda Lewanski wrote:
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> Margaret Dean wrote:
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> > Amanda Lewanski wrote:
> >
> > > P.S.--Griffins more correctly are the front half of an eagle and the
> > > back half of a lion. Their forward limbs are the legs and claws of
> > > an eagle, and they have wings. They do have tufty feathery ears,
> > > though.
> >
> > Except if they're male, in which case they are wingless, but have
> > spiky tufts scattered here and there over their bodies.
> >
> > I am =not= making this up.
> 
> Sorry, moderators. I'll be quiet after this unless it's HP heraldry.

Oops!  I apologize too, for aiding and abetting an OT thread. 
Although . . .

Can't you just see Hagrid showing off a shipment of male griffins
in his "Care of Magical Creatures" class?

Student:  "But I thought griffins had wings."

Hagrid:  "Th' females do, right enough, but these here are the
males.  Cute, aren't they?  Go ahead an' pet 'em, jus' be careful
o' the spikes . . ."  


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>