JKR website - Quintaped

[Maria Vaerewyck]

No: HPFGUIDX 149664

Hi, I am just wondering if anybody thinks that there's a connection 
on the Quintaped at JKR's website (rubbish bin and ancient runes 
book) and the quintaped skeleton in the RoR in HBP. Harry found or 
saw a cage with a five legged skeleton. I was thinking of this 
skeleton with 5 legs as quintaped. Latin word for quintaped is five-
footed. Could this have something to do in book 7? Another red 
herring, perhaps? Just wondering. And according to the HPL, 
quintaped are highly dangerous carnivore covered in thick reddish 
brown hair, having five clufooted legs and a low slung body. It has 
a particular taste for humans.

Most of these beasts (demeguise, unicorn, graphorn?, runespoor? 
Fwooper, salamander, acromantula and hydra?) have their used for 
potions or something in the pasts books, but the quintaped, we never 
heard or see yet except in the RoR. Maybe it's worth thinking of.
I read it somewhere and I'm trying to find that page now, about 
origins of the Quintaped. Quintaped are from the Isle of Drear in 
Scotland. This Isle was inhabited by 2 warring wizarding clans, the 
McClivet and the McBoons. In a drunken fight the McBoon chief killed 
the McClivet chief or something like that and then one night the 
McClivets decided to have their revenge so they went to the place of 
the McBoons clans and turned everyone of the McBoons into quintaped, 
only then did they realized that they turned their enemies into more 
dangerous creatures. McBoons/quintaped ate every members of the 
McClivets to the last one, only to realized at the end that none 
from the McClivets was left to hold a wand to transform them back 
into their human forms so they spent their lives living as 
quintaped. 

If that is how it was, how did the quintaped get inside Hogwarts 
into RoR, who brought it in? It surely cannot be Hagrid or he would 
have put Aragog there too. Could it be that, that is the last of the 
member of the McBoons? Anybody have any ideas? Maybe it will appear 
again in book 7. Maybe this is worth pursuing? Thanks and sorry for 
any mispelled words and my grammar.

maria8162001