WOMBAT - OT

[Hagrid]

No: HPFGUIDX 159730

--- "blue dragon" wrote:
>
> justcarol67 said:
> > I think that JKR chose a thoroughly unmagical animal that 
> > started with "W" (so that "Wizard" could fit into the 
> > acronym) and made up the rest of the name to fit the 
> > letters in the word (as she must also have done with 
> > NEWT and OWL, both of which also contain a W). 
> 
> 
> Blue Dragon says:
> 
> Can I say, as an Australian, that a wombat is NOT a rodent? :)
> 
> The wombat is a burrowing marsupial, (a mammal that raises its 
> young in a pouch).  The better-known marsupials are kangaroos.

Aussie_lol:
There are other Australian animals that have made it into JKR's 
lesser known book (Fantastic Beasts and where to find them).

There are the BILLY WIGS (Said to be the main ingrediant in Fizzing 
Whizzbees) and ANTIPODEAN OPALEYE DRAGON. 

There is another animal from origins unknown - probably Africa, 
though I'd like to think it was Australian - and that is the bird 
Sirius uses to send messages to Harry in GOF. Large Tropical Birds, 
is all we ever hear of them. Was Sirius staying with a Wombat 
breeder in Australia at the time? ... lol
aussie