History Literature / FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem

* DidntThinkThisThrough: The creation of the Quintapeds. Summary: The heads of two FeudingFamilies engage in a duel and one of them gets killed. The dead man's family responds by transforming all members of the other family into five-legged monsters. [[TooDumbToLive Said monsters proceed to kill everyone]] leaving the Quintapeds incapable of turning back into humans.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: The creation of the Quintapeds. Summary: The heads of two FeudingFamilies engage in a duel and one of them gets killed. The dead man's family responds by transforming all members of the other family into five-legged monsters. [[TooDumbToLive Said monsters proceed to kill everyone]].

* DarkestAfrica: Africa does sure have a lot of dangerous dark creatures such as the Nundu, Tebo and Streeler.

* PantheraAwesome: The Nundu a gigantic Leopard so dangerous that it takes 100 wizards to subdue one. Take note it took ten wizards to control 4 dragons, in the Triwizard Tournament.

** In the entry for Leprechauns, it mentions that they produce a gold-like substance for their amusement. Ron notes next to it, "But not mine."

* BrownNote: Fwooper song, if listened to too much; eyes of a Basilisk.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Many creatures first appeared here before being mentioned in the books. Even Thestrals are included, albeit as a minor reference under "Winged Horse".

* OurFairiesAreDifferent: Four particular creatures. All of them also lay eggs like insects rather than giving birth to live offspring.

* SirensAreMermaids: 'Siren' is a species of mermaid found in the Mediterranean. They are the beautiful mermaids commonly depicted in art and literature, contrasting with the Selkies and the Merrows - which have more alien appearances.
* StuffBlowingUp: Erumpent horns contain explosive fluid. Their numbers aren't very large because of this, as they still have the rhino instinct to charge at poor bastards.

* CoolHorse: Winged horses.

* ThePhoenix: Of course.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: A serious issue, given the wizarding world's [[HalfHumanHybrid partially-human hybrid creatures]] and [[TalkingAnimal talking animals]] of various levels of intelligence.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Hermione points out that Ron could have used the money he wasted on Dungbombs to buy a new book for himself. He replies with, "Dungbombs ''rule''."

* AuthorFilibuster: Humorously invoked: Ron and Hermoine get into a large argument... via notes... on one of the first pages of Harry's books. Harry tells them both to shut up.
** An entry right next to trolls has a drawing of one of Malfoy's goons, courtesy of Ron.
-->My name is Gregory Goyle and I smell

** The Nundu is described as the most dangerous beast in the world. You would guess that Harry has to fight one later in the series. He doesn't.

* ContinuityNod: The entry for the Kappa, a Japanese creature that Snape claimed was more commonly found in Mongolia during ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]''. "Snape hasn't read this."

* {{Defictionalization}}

* OurGriffinsAreDifferent: Classical griffins and hippogriffs (note that hippogriffs were a part of mythology, but mostly as a figurativly unlikely creature, since horses and griffins were enemies).

* StuffBlowingUp: Erumpent horns contain explosive fluid. Their numbers aren't very large because of this.

** Dodos never went extinct. They're actually magical birds called diricawls and are capable of teleportation. The Loch Ness monster's actually a shapeshifter, and hides whenever muggles try to look for it.

-->HI MY NAME IS GOYLE AND I SMELL

* CassandraDidIt: Augries are feared because their cries are said to cause death. In reality, they're just predicting rain.

* DarkIsEvil: Any beast or being classified as a "Dark Creature" falls under this. Dark Creatures (or "Demons" as they are classified) consists of anything that is capable of magic and use said magic for the sake of malicious intent rather than survival. Dementors, werewolves, and boggarts are all considered Dark Creatures whereas chimeras, manticores, and dragons are not. This is because a dragon will only attack a wizard (or Muggle) to defend itself or for food while a werewolf will attack to turn another human into a werewolf or out of murderous intent.
* DeadpanSnarker: Have you read Harry and Ron's commentary? There's also the arguments Ron and Hermoine get into.

** Then there's the erumpet, a rhinoceros like creature that has an exploding horn. [[spoiler: In ''Deathly Hallows'' Xenophilius Lovegood has one's horn on his wall (thinking it belongs to a Crumple Horn Snorkack) and his accidentally blowing it up helps the trio escape.]]
* ExactWords: Early definitions of "Beings" were done with human centrism in mind, leading to definitions like "creatures who walk on two legs" or "who speak the human language." This would leave out obvious beings like centaurs and merfolk, but accidentally include a lot of creatures, such as trolls, augries, fwoopers, or vampires. Havoc ensues. The definition that stuck was "Any creature that can understand the laws of the Wizarding World", which helped tighten the list to just sentients.
* FeudingFamilies: The [=McCliverts=] and the [=MacBoons=] (the former, [[AllMythsAreTrue possibly]], transformed the latter into five legged, hairy monsters; the latter proceeded to eat them).

* FootnoteFever: Not just from the author, but from Hermoine, Ron, Harry, and various others. If it's from the gang, expect it to be arguing, nitpicking, or Harry telling Hermoine and Ron to stop arguing.

** The entry of the Hungarian Horntail as the most dangerous dragon breed of all, Harry noted it as "you're not kidding".

*** All of these are probably due specifically to the location of the beast, Nundus being East African and Lethifolds being tropical, though.

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* ExactWords: Early definitions of "Beings" were done with human centrism in mind, leading to definitions like "creatures who walk on two legs" or "who speak the human language." This would leave out obvious beings like centaurs and merfolk, but accidentally include a lot of creatures, such as trolls, augries, fwoopers, or vampires. Havoc ensues.

* StuffBlowingUp: Erumpent horns contain explosive fluid. [[spoiler:This become important in the last book, where CloudCuckoolander Mr. Lovegood is TooDumbToLive and keeps an Erumpent horn ''in his house!'']]

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Dodos never went extinct. They're actually magical birds called diricawls and are capable of teleportation. The Loch Ness monster's actually a shapeshifter, and hides whenever muggles try to look for it.

** The Nundu is described as the most dangerous beast in the world. You would guess that Harry has to fight one later in the series. [[spoiler:He doesn't.]]
** Ditto with the Lethifold, which requires a Patronus Charm to repel. Around the time this book came out, we'd only seen Patronuses used on Dementors. [[spoiler:No one encounters a Lethifold in-series.]]
*** [[spoiler: All of these are probably due specifically to the location of the beast, Nundus being East African and Lethifolds being tropical, though.]]

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Dodos never went extinct. They're actually magical birds called diricawls and are capable of teleportation.

* DeadpanSnarker: Have you read Harry and Ron's commentary?

* MultipleHeadCase: Runespoors

* [[Foreshodwing]]: The Demiguise is mentioned as a huge, gorilla-like creature whose silky hair is used to create invisibility cloaks. These cloaks are said to wear out over time. [[spoiler: Harry's cloak has been around for years and is still fully functional, becoming an important plot point in ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'']].

** The Demiguise is mentioned as a huge, gorilla-like creature whose silky hair is used to create invisibility cloaks. However, [[spoiler:even these cloaks are said to wear out over time, whereas Harry's cloak has been around for years and is still fully functional]].
*** [[spoiler: This is explained in the seventh book.]]
** Also, the Nundu is described as the most dangerous beast in the world. You would guess that Harry has to fight one later in the series. [[spoiler:He doesn't.]]