Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them by Newt Salamander

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 162296

> Alla:
> This post appears because of Potioncat. Please thank her if you like
> it and blame her if you do not. <g>

zgirnius:
Thank you, Potioncat! (And you too, Alla!) 
> 3. Here are the creatures mentioned in "Fantastic beasts" (I tried
> not to miss anybody, sorry if I did)
<snip>
Quintaped.
<snip>
> Anything of future significance for the plot of main books?

zgirnius:
Harry hides the HBP's Advanced Potions text in the Room of 
Requirement, in a cabinet which already contains the skeleton of a 
five legged creature. Since 5-legged creatures do not, so far as I 
know, exist in the Muggle world, I presume this was a Quintaped. How 
did it come to be there, when they all reside on an island off the 
coast of Scotland which is Unplottable and Muggle-Repelling, I 
wonder? (Did Hagrid have more than one insanely dangerous XXXXX pet 
in his school career?) I wonder if this detail matters. Some of the 
other stuff pointed out to us in that scene could be handy to help 
Harry find the book again. But what is *inside* the cabinet surely 
would not matter?

Anyway, that's the random magical creature thought I had when I read 
the entry on Q-peds for the first time..."Hey, I've seen one in teh 
books!"

> Alla:
> Like is
> it important that Patronus also works against highly dangerous
> Lethifold, which reminded me of Dementors way too much for my 
liking?

zgirnius:
I am so depressingly sure we will be seeing a lot mroe of the 
Dementors before Book 7 is over. Nasty pieces of work. I wonder if 
they are related to Lethifolds? They are not in the book, and I 
wonder why. Could they be the creation of a Dark Wizard, based on the 
Lethifold? (That way they would not be naturally occuring...on the 
other hand, neither are Quintapeds. Oh well.)

> Alla:
> Another thing that strokes me when I flipped through the book today
> is that Centaurs are skilled not only in Divination, but also in
> Archery and magical healing. Well, we had seen them doing divination
> and archery, but as far as I can remember we did not see them heal
> somebody just yet or did we?

zgirnius:
No, I do not recall seeing them heal either. But was it not a Centaur 
that explained to Harry in PS/SS about the healing properties of 
Unicorn blood (and warning of the evil and cursed nature of such 
use?) This would, anyway, suggest they know about things related to 
Healing.