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YMMV: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Nightmare Fuel: The Nundu, which resembles a Leopard — said to be utterly silent, gigantic, and able to wipe out entire villages just by breathing due to the diseases on its breath; it's so dangerous that the only successful kills have come from one hundred wizards working in concert. For comparison, that's ten times as many wizards as it takes to subdue the average dragon.
The Lethifold, mentioned above, would also count, due to the fact that they sneak up on unsuspecting victims and smother them in their sleep.
The Manticore, a Shout Out to classical Greek Mythology. It has a man's head, a lion's body, and a scorpion's tail, and its sting causes instant death. If that wasn't enough, its skin is nigh-invulnerable to magic.
Not to mention it can speak intelligently, and CROONS while it eats its prey.
And Hagrid possibly crossbred one.*
It's a Rita Skeeter article, so take it with a grain of salt, but if anyone would crossbreed manticores with fire-crabs it'd be Hagrid.
Not to mention the only record of a Chimera being killed "led to the unlucky wizard in question falling from his winged horse".*
In the original legend, after slaying it while riding the winged horse Pegasus, Bellerophon tried to fly to Mount Olympus (where the gods lived). Guess how well that turned out
