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“Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance.”
― Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Horklump M.O.M. Classification: X The Horklump comes from Scandinavia but is now widespread throughout northern Europe. It resembles a fleshy, pinkish mushroom covered in sparse, wiry black bristles. A prodigious breeder, the Horklump will cover an average garden in a matter of days. It spreads sinewy tentacles rather than roots into the ground to search for its preferred food of earthworms. The Horklump is a favourite delicacy of gnomes but otherwise has no discernible use. Horned Serpent M.O.M. Classification: XXXXX Several species of Horned Serpents exist globally: large specimens have been caught in the Far East, while ancient bestiaries suggest that they were once native to Western Europe, where they have been hunted to extinction by wizards in search of potion ingredients. The largest and most diverse group of Horned Serpents still in existence is to be found in North America, of which the most famous and highly prized has a jewel in its forehead, which is reputed to give the power of invisibility and flight. A legend exists concerning the founder of Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Isolt Sayre, and a Horned Serpent. Sayre was reputed to be able to understand the serpent, which offered her shavings from its horn as the core of the first ever American-made wand. The Horned Serpent gives its name to one of the houses of Ilvermorny.”
― Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“I have visited lairs, burrows and nests across five continents, observed the curious habits of magical beasts in a hundred countries, witnessed their powers, gained their trust and, on occasion, beaten them off with my travelling kettle.

— newt scamander”
― Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Muggles have a great weakness for fairies, which feature in a variety of tales written for their children. These ‘fairy tales’ involve winged beings with distinct personalities and the ability to converse as humans (though often in a nauseatingly sentimental fashion).”
― Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Todaye while travailing in the Herbe Garden, I did push aside the basil to discover a Ferret of monstrous size. It did not run nor hide as Ferrets are wont to do, but leapt upon me, throwing me backwards upon the grounde and crying with most unnatural fury, “Get out of it, baldy!” It did then bite my nose so viciously that I did bleed for several Hours. The Friar was unwillinge to believe that I had met a talking Ferret and did ask me whether I had been supping of Brother Boniface’s Turnip Wine. As my nose was still swollen and bloody I was excused Vespers.”
― Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance,”
― Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance”
― Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Sometimes it takes losing something to realize quite how much it means”
― Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“A thin, pale-grey serpent with glowing red eyes, it will rise from the embers of an unsupervised fire and slither away into the shadows of the dwelling in which it finds itself, leaving an ashy trail behind it.”
― Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“The Hodag’s magic resides largely in its horns which, when powdered, make a man immune to the effects of alcohol and able to go without sleep for seven days and seven nights.”
― Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Two Ways to Read This book includes art and animation designed to enhance”
― Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Leprechauns eat leaves and, despite their reputation as pranksters, are not known ever to have done lasting damage to a human.”
― Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“verde plateado”
― Newt Scamander, Animales fantásticos y dónde encontrarlos

“XX”
― Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Werewolves spend most of their time as humans (whether wizard or Muggle). Once a month, however, they transform into savage, four-legged beasts of murderous intent and no human conscience.”
― Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Breeding has made the creation of new species illegal. DISILLUSIONMENT CHARMS The wizard on the street also plays a part in the concealment of magical beasts. Those who own a Hippogriff, for example, are bound by law to enchant the beast with a Disillusionment Charm to distort the vision of any Muggle who may see it. Disillusionment Charms should be performed daily, as their effects are apt to wear off. MEMORY CHARMS When the worst happens and a Muggle sees what he or she is not supposed to see, the Memory Charm is perhaps the most useful repair tool. The Memory Charm may be performed by the owner of the beast in question, but in severe cases of Muggle notice, a team of trained Obliviators may be sent in by the Ministry of Magic. THE OFFICE OF MISINFORMATION The Office of Misinformation will become involved in only the very worst magical–Muggle collisions. Some magical catastrophes or accidents are simply too glaringly obvious to be explained away by Muggles without the help of an outside authority. The Office of Misinformation will in such a case liaise directly with the Muggle prime minister to seek a plausible non-magical explanation for the event. The unstinting efforts of this office in persuading Muggles that all photographic evidence of the Loch Ness kelpie is fake have gone some way to salvaging a situation that at one time looked exceedingly dangerous. 7. In his 1972 book Muggles Who Notice, Blenheim Stalk asserts that some residents of Ilfracombe escaped the Mass Memory Charm. ‘To this day, a Muggle bearing the nickname “Dodgy Dirk” holds forth in bars along the south coast on the subject of a “dirty great flying lizard” that punctured his lilo.’ 8. For a fascinating examination of this fortunate tendency of Muggles, the reader might like to consult The Philosophy of the Mundane: Why the Muggles Prefer Not to Know, Professor Mordicus Egg (Dust & Mildewe, 1963). 9. The largest department at the Ministry of Magic is the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, to which the remaining six departments are all, in some respect, answerable – with the possible exception of the Department of Mysteries.”
― Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“ASHWINDER M.O.M. CLASSIFICATION: XXX The Ashwinder is created when a magical fire12 is allowed to burn unchecked for too long. A thin, pale-grey serpent with glowing red eyes, it will rise from the embers of an unsupervised fire and slither away into the shadows of the dwelling in which it finds itself, leaving an ashy trail behind it. The Ashwinder lives for only an hour and during that time seeks a dark and secluded spot in which to lay its eggs, after which it will collapse into dust. Ashwinder eggs are brilliant red and give off intense heat. They will ignite the dwelling within minutes if not found and frozen with a suitable charm. Any wizard realising that one or more Ashwinders are loose in the house must trace them immediately and locate the nest of eggs. Once frozen, these eggs are of great value for use in Love Potions and may be eaten whole as a cure for ague. Ashwinders are found worldwide.”
― Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Known wizard killer/impossible to train or domesticate”
― Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Generations of young Australian witches and wizards have attempted to catch Billywigs and provoke them into stinging in order to enjoy these side effects, though too many stings may cause the victim to hover uncontrollably for days on end, and where there is a severe allergic reaction, permanent floating may ensue.”
― Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“It would take months to contradict every other wild assertion in Miss Skeeter’s book.”
― Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“In 2001, a reprint of the first edition of my book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was made available to Muggle readers. The Ministry of Magic consented to this unprecedented release to raise money for Comic Relief, a well-respected Muggle charity. I was permitted to reissue the book only on condition that a disclaimer was included, assuring Muggle readers that it”
― Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“chicken egg hatched beneath a toad would produce a gigantic serpent possessed”
― Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“sufficient intelligence to understand the laws of the magical community and to bear part of the responsibility in shaping those laws’.2 Troll”
― Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“La comprensión incorrecta es a menudo más peligrosa que la ignorancia, y el miedo [...] aumentó indudablemente por el temor que les inspiraba lo que pudiera estar al acecho...”
― Newt Scamander, Animales fantásticos y dónde encontrarlos: Harry Potter Libro de la Biblioteca Hogwarts