Acromantula

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 184278

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Suzanne Sinclair <lougarry33 at ...> 
wrote:

> Surely this would have changed after the Triwizard Tournament, 
> with the appearance of an Acromantula in the maze.  I remember 
> a reference to the Sphinx being specially imported but no-one 
> seemed to question the Acromantula being easily to hand.


zanooda:

If some teachers and Ministry workers knew about the Acromantula, they 
were not talking :-), because in HBP Slughorn didn't know for sure 
about the spiders in the forest, he only heard "rumors" about them. And 
that's with all his contacts at the Ministry :-)! As for the students, 
I'm sure that only Harry and Cedric saw the spider in the maze, Fleur 
and Viktor didn't get far enough to encounter it. 

I also don't believe that the Ministry specifically "ordered" an 
Acromantula for the maze, like they did the Sphinx. I think they just 
asked Hagrid: "Do you have any dangerous beasts to provide for the 
maze?" (duh! :-)) - and here we go, enter a Screwt and an 
Acromantula  :-)!