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- "Hi, my name is Marilyn. I have a lovely collection of beetle pincers!"
- — An eccentric Hufflepuff student[src]
Beetles are the group of insects with the largest number of known species.[1] Beetles and parts of their anatomy were known potion ingredients.[2]
History[]
Black beetle eyes were sold at the apothecaries in Diagon Alley. The rate was five Knuts a scoop by 31 July 1991.[3] Severus Snape kept a jar of dead ones in his office.
On 31 July 1991, when Rubeus Hagrid first arrived at the Hut-on-the-Rock, Harry Potter felt that his eyes glinted "like black beetles under all the hair".[3]
At the start of the 1992–1993 school year, Ronald Weasley accidentally squashed a beetle which he was supposed to be Transfiguring into a button, due to his broken wand producing a large amount of smoke, which obscured his vision. This annoyed Professor McGonagall, the Transfiguration professor.[4]
In the summer of 1993, a Pocket Sneakoscope that was later given to Harry Potter kept lighting up because Fred and George Weasley had put beetles in Bill Weasley's soup.[5]
On Christmas 1994, Harry watched a beetle crawling on a stone reindeer while trying to avoid listening to Hagrid's and Olympe Maxime's conversation outside during the Yule Ball.[6]
During the second task of the Triwizard Tournament, Viktor Krum noticed that Hermione Granger had a water beetle in her hair after she was rescued from the Great Lake.[7]
The Animagus of Rita Skeeter was a beetle, which allowed her to discretely spy and eavesdrop on conversations. She was one of the four known unregistered Animagi of the twentieth century.[8]
Appearances[]
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Mentioned only)
- Pottermore
- Wizarding World (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter Trading Card Game (Mentioned only)
- The Road to Hogwarts Sweepstakes
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
- Harry Potter for Kinect
- Wonderbook: Book of Spells (Mentioned only)
- Wonderbook: Book of Potions (Mentioned only)
- Fantastic Beasts: Cases from the Wizarding World
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
- Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
- Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells
- Harry Potter: Magic Awakened (Mentioned only)
- Hogwarts Legacy (Mentioned in a newspaper)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Beetle on Wikipedia
- ↑ Pottermore
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 5 (Diagon Alley)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 6 (Gilderoy Lockhart)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 1 (Owl Post)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 23 (The Yule Ball)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 26 (The Second Task)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 37 (The Beginning)