FB (SPOILERS)

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No: HPFGUIDX 14271

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The Magical Menagerie  (PoA chapter 4), contains quite a few beasties 
not mentioned in FB. It appears that only animals that have to be 
concealed from Muggles (the original twenty six plus the later 
additions and subtractions, I count seventy-five altogether) are dealt 
with, because in the Menagerie we find:
a pair of enormous purple toads
a gigantic tortoise with a jewel encrusted shell
poisonous orange snails (streelers?)
a fat white rabbit
cats of every color
a noisy cage of ravens
a basket of funny colored furballs (puffskeins?)
black rats
a double ended newt
	Perhaps the newt is a freak of nature (or magic?), and magical 
rabbits, cats, ravens etc not to mention owls, are capable of hiding 
amongst their mundane cousins. 
	As for the Dementors,  Lupin mentions (POA 10) that Muggles can't 
see them, so they wouldn't need to be hidden by the Wizards. Could it 
be possible that Dementors are spirits? They do look as though they're 
dead and rotting, after all. They can interact with the physical world 
but so can Peeves, who is also presumably a spirit.
	 It is also interesting that the Grindylow, which is called a 
demon, is considered a beast.
Pippin