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*The only film that they are mentioned in is ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1]]''.
 
*The only film that they are mentioned in is ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1]]''.
 
*In the GBA version of ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'', they appear as enemies. When you go near a tree they live in, they can throw pieces of wood at you. To defeat them the player has to cast the [[Confundus Charm]] at them.
 
*In the GBA version of ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'', they appear as enemies. When you go near a tree they live in, they can throw pieces of wood at you. To defeat them the player has to cast the [[Confundus Charm]] at them.
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*In the PC version of [[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]], Bowtruckles appear as enemies, whose offensive consists of throwing pieces of wood. Harry can cast [[Severing Charm|Diffindo]] at them to defeat them, which earns him a piece of [[Wiggentree bark]], one of the two ingredients in the [[Wiggenweld Potion]]. Unfortunately, due to the absence of enemies dropping [[Flobberworm Mucus]] upon defeat, this does tend to offset the player's balance of ingredients rather heavily.
   
 
==Appearances==
 
==Appearances==

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The Bowtruckle is immensely difficult to spot, being a hand-sized, insect eating, tree dweller with long sharp fingers (two on each hand), brown eyes, and a general appearance of a flat-faced little stickman made of bark and twigs, which serves well as camouflage in its natural habitat.

The Bowtruckle can be found in western England, southern Germany, and certain Scandinavian forests. A Bowtruckle serves as a tree guardian for its home tree, which is usually a tree whose wood makes wands (such as Wiggentree). The twig-like fingers are well adapted for digging out wood lice in trees, and can also be used as a weapon against a foe when aimed at the eyes. It is generally a peaceful creature, but will become violent if anything threatens its tree, or even to itself. To take leaves or wood from a Bowtruckle's tree, one would have to offer it wood lice or fairy eggs as a distraction.

Etymology

The word "bow" was an old Scottish dialect means "dwelling," and "limb of tree" or "truckle" in old English dialect. This means "to take a subordinate position."

Behind the scenes

Appearances

Care of Magical Creatures
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Care of Magical Creatures at Hogwarts
Hagrid's Hut · Forbidden Forest · Care of Magical Creatures Classroom · Magical Creatures (club) · The Paddock
Professors Silvanus Kettleburn · Rubeus Hagrid · Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank (substitute teacher)
Textbooks The Monster Book of Monsters · Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Creatures studied at Hogwarts
Blast-Ended Skrewt · Bowtruckle · Chimaera · Crup · Demiguise · Diricawl · Doxy · Dugbog · Fairy · Fire Crab · Fire Dwelling Salamander · Flobberworm · Fwooper · Glumbumble · Gnome · Golden Snidget · Griffin · Hippogriff · Imp · Jackalope · Knarl · Kneazle · Moke · Murtlap · Niffler · Occamy · Porlock · Quintaped · Streeler · Thestral · Unicorn · Yeti
Magical creatures by classification
X Flobberworm · Horklump
XX Augurey · Bowtruckle · Chizpurfle · Clabbert · Diricawl · Fairy · Ghoul · Gnome · Grindylow · Imp · Jobberknoll · Mooncalf · Porlock · Puffskein · Ramora · Winged horse
XXX Ashwinder · Billywig · Bundimun · Crup · Doxy · Dugbog · Fire crab · Fwooper · Glumbumble · Hippocampus · Hippogriff · Hodag · Jarvey · Knarl · Kneazle · Leprechaun · Lobalug · Mackled Malaclaw · Moke · Murtlap · Niffler · Nogtail · Pixie · Plimpy · Pogrebin · Red Cap · Salamander · Sea serpent · Shrake · Streeler · Winged horse
XXXX Centaur · Demiguise · Erkling · Erumpent · Golden Snidget · Graphorn · Griffin · Hidebehind · Kappa · Kelpie · Merperson · Occamy · Phoenix · Re'em · Runespoor · Snallygaster · Sphinx · Tebo · Thestral · Thunderbird · Troll · Unicorn · Winged horse · Yeti
XXXXX Acromantula · Basilisk · Chimaera · Dragon · Horned Serpent · Lethifold · Manticore · Nundu · Quintaped · Wampus cat · Werewolf