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"C'mon, now, get a move on! Got a real treat for yeh today! Great lesson comon' up! Everyone here? Right, follow me!"

— Rubeus Hagrid at his first Care of Magical Creatures lesson^[src]

Care of Magical Creatures is an elective course at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry that can be chosen by students in their third year. In the class, students learn about a wide range of magical creatures, from flobberworms to fire crabs, and even unicorns and thestrals. Students are taught about feeding, maintaining, breeding, and proper treatment of these various creatures.

The witches and wizards who succeeded in achieving an O.W.L. in the subject later could become Magizoologists. Some known magizoologists were; Newt Scamander, his grandson Rolf Scamander, and his wife Luna Scamander (née Lovegood).

Class location

Care of Magical Creatures classes typically take place outside of Hagrid's hut, but some lessons occasionally take place in the Forbidden Forest, such as the Thestral lesson.

Class information

"My brother Charlie was the outdoors type, so he went for Care of Magical Creatures."

— Percy Weasley on choosing subjects in third year^[src]

File:Hip lesson.jpg

Hippogriff Lesson in 1993

Care of Magical Creatures is a subject taught only to those in their third year or above who choose to take it.

In a students fifth year they take the Ordinary Wizarding Level examination where they sit both a written portion and a practical portion, were they demonstrate their knowledge. On their Care of Magical Creatures practical they had to identify a knarl hidden among a dozen hedgehogs; demonstrate correct handling of a bowtruckle; feed and clean out a fire crab without sustaining serious burns; choose from a wide selection of food the diet they would give a sick unicorn.

It is unknown how many of Harry Potter's fellow students chose to continue Care of Magical Creatures in their N.E.W.T. year; however, Harry, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger left the subject after completing their O.W.L.s

Staffing

Rubeus hagrid — Rubeus Hagrid, current professor of Care of Magical Creatures

Silvanus Kettleburn taught Care of Magical Creatures until 1993, when he retired "to enjoy more time with his remaining limbs." He was succeeded by Rubeus Hagrid, whose lessons became controversial after Draco Malfoy was injured by a hippogriff. After Malfoy was injured, Hagrid was more restrained in the animals he showed to the class for the remainder of the year. Hagrid occasionally brought creatures that were illegal to class. Hermione Granger attempted to organise Hagrid's classes in order to make him a better teacher and prevent him from being fired. In his second year of teaching the subject, Hagrid introduced the his fourth year class to Blast-Ended Skrewts during his lessons, a species of illegally bred creatures.

During the 1994–1995 school year Hagrid was replaced, for a short time, as Care of Magical Creatures Professor by Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank who gave lessons on bowtruckles and unicorns.

Creatures

Among the creatures the students learned about in these lessons during Harry's school period were:

Third year

Hippogriffs - Practical lesson which culminated in Buckbeak "savagely mauling" Draco Malfoy. It was actually only a small injury that Malfoy played up for several reasons. Among those were to get Hagrid in trouble, to annoy Harry, Ron, and Hermione, to get out of playing the Quidditch match vs. Gryffindor in bad weather, and to get some of his school work extended or done for him.
Flobberworms - Dull lessons which mostly involved feeding them lettuce, which resulted in them dying from being overfed. The third year exam for the class involved caring for these creatures for one hour, with a pass given if they were alive at the end of the exam. Since flobberworms do best if left to their own devices, it was the easiest exam anyone in the class had ever taken.
Salamanders - Taught while Hagrid was depressed about Buckbeak's pending execution.

Fourth year

File:B4C21M1.jpg

A lesson focused on Blast-Ended Skrewts

VXTu50IPVC4 — A lesson focused on unicorns

Blast-Ended Skrewts - Raised as a project throughout the year. All ended up killing each other, with only two remaining by the Third Task, and only one by the end of the year. These were possibly illegally bred mixes of manticores and fire crabs.
Nifflers - A practical lesson which involved searching for leprechaun gold.
Unicorns - Adults and foals; the adult lessons were mostly girl-dominant, while the foals allowed the boys to approach.

Fifth year

Thestrals - Lesson was mostly impeded by Dolores Umbridge.
Bowtruckles - Classwork and homework involved sketching a bowtruckle.

Other

Other creatures shown to classes across the years include:

Required textbooks

"Hasn' anyone bin able ter open their books? Yeh've got to stroke 'em."

— Hagrid in his first lesson of magical creatures; he thought the books were funny^[src]

Grades

Pass

Fail

Poor [P]
Dreadful [D]
Troll [T]

Known O.W.L.s

Rolf Scamander

Media

Template:VideoFooter

Behind the scenes

As revealed in Pottermore, J. K. Rowling had originally devised this class to be called "Beasts", and to be compulsory from the first year.^[1]
The year in which creatures are covered seems to depend on the teacher. Silvanus Kettleburn covered salamanders with Fred and George Weasley in their fourth year, while Rubeus Hagrid taught about salamanders in Harry Potter's third year. Hermione Granger stated that a person like Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank probably wouldn´t have covered Thestrals until reaching NEWT-level, whereas Rubeus Hagrid taught about Thestrals in Harry's fifth year.

Appearances

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) (Mentioned only)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Mentioned only)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (First appearance)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film) (Danish version only)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Mentioned only)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game) (Mentioned only)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Mentioned only)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game) (Mentioned only)
LEGO Harry Potter: Building the Magical World (Mentioned only)
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
Harry Potter Trading Card Game (Mentioned only)
Pottermore (Mentioned only)

Notes and references

↑ Pottermore - Hogwarts School Subjects (J.K. Rowling's thoughts)

Care of Magical Creatures

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

Wizarding education

The eleven schools
Beauxbatons · Castelobruxo · Durmstrang · Hogwarts · Ilvermorny · Koldovstoretz · Mahoutokoro · Uagadou
Specialised schools
Academy of Broom Flying · Charm School · Euro-Glyph School of Extraordinary Languages · Merge School of Under-Water Spellage · The Naaszcademy of Magizoology · Wizarding Academy of Dramatic Arts · Young Wizards Daycare Center

[Pottermore-1] Pottermore - Hogwarts School Subjects (J.K. Rowling's thoughts)

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 {{Quote|C'mon, now, get a move on! Got a real treat for yeh today! Great lesson comon' up! Everyone here? Right, follow me!|[[Rubeus Hagrid]] at his first Care of Magical Creatures lesson|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban}}
-'''Care of Magical Creatures''' is an elective course at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]] that can be taken by students [[Third year]] and above. In the class, students learn about a wide range of [[magic]]al creatures, from [[flobberworm]]s to [[Fire crab]]s, and even [[unicorn]]s and [[thestral]]s. Students are taught about feeding, maintaining, breeding, and proper treatment of these various [[creature]]s. The witches and wizards who succeeded in achieving an O. W. L. in the subject later could become Magizoologists. Some known magizoologists were [[Newt Scamander]], his grandson [[Rolf Scamander]] and his wife [[Luna Lovegood|Luna Scamander]] (née Lovegood).
+'''Care of Magical Creatures''' is an elective course at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]] that can be chosen by students in their [[third year]]. In the class, students learn about a wide range of [[magic]]al creatures, from [[flobberworm]]s to [[fire crab]]s, and even [[unicorn]]s and [[thestral]]s. Students are taught about feeding, maintaining, breeding, and proper treatment of these various [[creature]]s.
+The witches and wizards who succeeded in achieving an O.W.L. in the subject later could become Magizoologists. Some known magizoologists were; [[Newt Scamander]], his grandson [[Rolf Scamander]], and his wife [[Luna Lovegood|Luna Scamander]] {{c|née [[Lovegood]]}}.
+==Class location==
+Care of Magical Creatures classes typically take place outside of [[Rubeus Hagrid's cabin|Hagrid's hut]], but some lessons occasionally take place in the [[Forbidden Forest]], such as the [[Thestral]] lesson.
 ==Class information==
 {{Quote|My brother Charlie was the outdoors type, so he went for Care of Magical Creatures.|[[Percy Weasley]] on choosing subjects in third year|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets}}
-[[File:Hip_lesson.jpg|thumb|left|245px|Hippogriff Lesson in 1993]]
+[[File:Hip_lesson.jpg|thumb|left|251x251px|Hippogriff Lesson in 1993]]
-Care of Magical Creatures is a subject taught only to those in their [[Third year]] or above who choose to take it.
+Care of Magical Creatures is a subject taught only to those in their [[third year]] or above who choose to take it.
+In a students fifth year they take the [[Ordinary Wizarding Level]] examination where they sit both a written portion and a practical portion, were they demonstrate their knowledge. On their Care of Magical Creatures practical they had to identify a [[knarl]] hidden among a dozen hedgehogs; demonstrate correct handling of a [[bowtruckle]]; feed and clean out a [[fire crab]] without sustaining serious burns; choose from a wide selection of food the diet they would give a sick [[unicorn]].
-It is unknown how many of [[Harry Potter|Harry Potter's]] fellow students chose to continue Care of Magical Creatures in their [[Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test|N.E.W.T.]] year, however Harry Potter, [[Ronald Weasley|Ron Weasley]], and [[Hermione Granger]] left the subject after completing their [[Ordinary Wizarding Level|O.W.L.s]].
+It is unknown how many of [[Harry Potter]]'s fellow students chose to continue Care of Magical Creatures in their [[Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test|N.E.W.T.]] year; however, Harry, [[Ronald Weasley|Ron Weasley]], and [[Hermione Granger]] left the subject after completing their [[Ordinary Wizarding Level|O.W.L.s]]
 ===Staffing===
-[[File:Rubeus_hagrid.PNG|thumb|130px|Rubeus Hagrid, current professor of Care of Magical Creatures.]]
+[[File:Rubeus_hagrid.PNG|thumb|231x231px|Rubeus Hagrid, current professor of Care of Magical Creatures]]
-[[Silvanus Kettleburn]] taught Care of Magical Creatures until [[1993]], when he retired "to enjoy more time with his remaining limbs." He was succeeded by [[Rubeus Hagrid]], whose lessons became controversial after [[Draco Malfoy]] was injured by a [[Hippogriff]]. After Malfoy was injured, Hagrid was more restrained in the animals he showed to the class for the remainder of the [[1993–1994 school year|year]]. Hagrid occasionally brought creatures that were illegal to class. [[Hermione Granger]] attempted to organise Hagrid's classes in order to make him a better teacher and prevent him from being fired. In his [[1994–1995 school year|second year]] of teaching the subject, Hagrid introduced the his [[fourth year]] class to [[Blast-Ended Skrewt]]s during his lessons, a species of illegally bred creatures.
+[[Silvanus Kettleburn]] taught Care of Magical Creatures until [[1993]], when he retired "''to enjoy more time with his remaining limbs''." He was succeeded by [[Rubeus Hagrid]], whose lessons became controversial after [[Draco Malfoy]] was injured by a [[hippogriff]]. After Malfoy was injured, Hagrid was more restrained in the animals he showed to the class for the remainder of the [[1993–1994 school year|year]]. Hagrid occasionally brought creatures that were illegal to class. [[Hermione Granger]] attempted to organise Hagrid's classes in order to make him a better teacher and prevent him from being fired. In his [[1994–1995 school year|second year]] of teaching the subject, Hagrid introduced the his [[fourth year]] class to [[Blast-Ended Skrewt]]s during his lessons, a species of illegally bred creatures.
-During the [[1994–1995 school year]] Hagrid was replaced, for a short time, as Care of Magical Creatures [[Professor]] by [[Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank]] who gave lessons on [[Bowtruckle]]s and [[Unicorn]]s.
+During the [[1994–1995 school year]] Hagrid was replaced, for a short time, as Care of Magical Creatures [[Professor]] by [[Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank]] who gave lessons on [[bowtruckle]]s and [[unicorn|unicorns]].
-===Classroom===
-Care of Magical Creatures classes typically take place outside of [[Rubeus Hagrid's cabin|Hagrid's hut]], but some lessons occasionally take place in the [[Forbidden Forest]], such as the [[Thestral]] lesson.
 ==Creatures==
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 ===[[Third year]]===
+*[[Hippogriff|Hippogriffs]] - Practical lesson which culminated in Buckbeak "''savagely mauling''" Draco Malfoy. It was actually only a small injury that Malfoy played up for several reasons. Among those were to get Hagrid in trouble, to annoy Harry, Ron, and Hermione, to get out of playing the Quidditch match vs. Gryffindor in bad weather, and to get some of his school work extended or done for him.
-[[File:Blast-Ended_Skrewt.png|thumb|160px|Blast-Ended Skrewt]]
+*[[Flobberworm|Flobberworms]] - Dull lessons which mostly involved feeding them [[lettuce]], which resulted in them dying from being overfed. The [[third year exams|third year exam]] for the class involved caring for these creatures for one hour, with a pass given if they were alive at the end of the exam. Since flobberworms do best if left to their own devices, it was the easiest exam anyone in the class had ever taken.
-[[File:Niffler.png|thumb|160px|Niffler]]
+*[[Salamander|Salamanders]] - Taught while Hagrid was depressed about Buckbeak's pending execution.
-[[File:Thestrals.gif|thumb|160px|A thestral.]]
-*[[Hippogriff]]s - Practical lesson which culminated in Buckbeak "savagely mauling" Draco Malfoy. It was actually only a small injury that Malfoy played up for several reasons. Among those are to get Hagrid in trouble, to annoy Harry, Ron, and Hermione, to get out of playing the Quidditch match vs. Gryffindor in bad weather, and to get some of his school work extended or done for him.
-*[[Flobberworm]]s - Dull lessons which mostly involved feeding them [[lettuce]], which resulted in them dying from being overfed. The [[third year exams|third year exam]] for the class involved caring for these creatures for one hour, with a pass given if they were alive at the end of the exam. Since flobberworms do best if left to their own devices, it was the easiest exam anyone in the class had ever taken.
-*[[Salamander]]s - Taught while Hagrid was depressed about Buckbeak's pending execution.
 ===[[Fourth year]]===
+[[File:B4C21M1.jpg|thumb|thumb|250px|A lesson focused on Blast-Ended Skrewts]]
+[[File:VXTu50IPVC4.jpg|thumb|250px|A lesson focused on unicorns]]
-*[[Blast-Ended Skrewt]]s - Raised as a project throughout the year. All ended up killing each other, with only two remaining by the Third Task, and only one by the end of the year. These were possibly illegally bred mixes of [[Manticore]]s and [[Fire crab]]s.
+*[[Blast-Ended Skrewt|Blast-Ended Skrewts]] - Raised as a project throughout the year. All ended up killing each other, with only two remaining by the Third Task, and only one by the end of the year. These were possibly illegally bred mixes of [[manticore|manticores]] and [[fire crab|fire crabs]].
-*[[Niffler]]s - A practical lesson which involved searching for [[leprechaun]] [[leprechaun gold|gold]].
+*[[Niffler|Nifflers]] - A practical lesson which involved searching for [[leprechaun gold]].
-*[[Unicorns]] - Adults and foals; the adult lessons were mostly girl-dominant, while the foals allowed the boys to approach.
+*[[Unicorn|Unicorns]] - Adults and foals; the adult lessons were mostly girl-dominant, while the foals allowed the boys to approach.
 ===[[Fifth year]]===
-*[[Thestral]]s - Lesson was mostly impeded by [[Dolores Umbridge]].
+*[[Thestral|Thestrals]] - Lesson was mostly impeded by [[Dolores Umbridge]].
-*[[Bowtruckle]]s - Classwork and homework involved sketching a Bowtruckle.
+*[[Bowtruckle|Bowtruckles]] - Classwork and homework involved sketching a bowtruckle.
 ===Other===
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 *[[Porlock]]s
+==Required textbooks==
-==Textbooks==
-[[File:The_Monster_Book.jpg|thumb|left|220px|''The Monster Book of Monsters''.]]
-{{Quote|Hasn' anyone bin able ter open their books? Yeh've got to ''stroke'' 'em.|Hagrid in his first lesson of magical creatures; he thought the books were funny.|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban}}
+{{Quote|Hasn' anyone bin able ter open their books? Yeh've got to ''stroke'' 'em.|Hagrid in his first lesson of magical creatures; he thought the books were funny|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban}}
+<gallery orientation="portrait" widths="95">
-During Professor Hagrid's time teaching, Third-Year students used ''[[The Monster Book of Monsters]]'', a book which would attempt to bite anyone near it unless stroked along the spine. ''[[Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them]]'' was also a textbook used in this class.
+MonsterBook.gif|[[Monster Book of Monsters]]
+Fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-pottermore.png|[[Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them]]
+</gallery>
 ==Grades==
 ===Pass===
-*Outstanding [O]
+*[[Outstanding]] [O]
-*Exceeds Expectations [E]
+*[[Exceeds Expectations]] [E]
-*Acceptable [A]
+*[[Acceptable]] [A]
 ===Fail===
-*Poor [P]
+*[[Poor]] [P]
-*Dreadful [D]
+*[[Dreadful]] [D]
-*Troll [T]
+*[[Troll]] [T]
 ==Known O.W.L.s==
+<gallery position="center" spacing="small" orientation="portrait" widths="85">
-*[[Angelina Johnson]]<ref>She stated in ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'' that Hagrid was a much better teacher, implying that she advanced to the NEWT class.</ref>
+Angeina john.jpg|[[Angelina Johnson]]
-*[[Bartemius Crouch Jr.|Barty Crouch Jr.]]
+Barty Crouch, Jr.jpg|[[Barty Crouch Jr.]] †
-*[[William Weasley|Bill Weasley]]
-*[[Charles Weasley]]
+Charlie1.jpg|[[Charles Weasley]]
-*[[Harry Potter]]
+PromoHP7 Harry Potter.jpg|[[Harry Potter]]
-*[[Hermione Granger]]
+Hermione-granger.jpg|[[Hermione Granger]]
-*[[Percy Weasley]]
+Percy.jpg|[[Percy Weasley]]
+Ron-Harry-Potter-and-the-half-blood-prince-potterhead-29292270-299-400.jpg|[[Ron Weasley]]
-*[[Ronald Weasley|Ron Weasley]]
-*[[Newt Scamander]]
+Newton Scamander.jpg|[[Newton Scamander]]
+Luna Lovegood.png|[[Luna Lovegood]]
+</gallery>
 *[[Rolf Scamander]]
-*[[Luna Lovegood]]
+==Media==
+<gallery widths="200" position="center" spacing="small" captionalign="center" hideaddbutton="true">
+File:Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Care for magical creatures|Care of Magical Creatures
+File:Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Buckbeak the Hippogriff|Buckbeak the Hippogriff
+</gallery>{{VideoFooter}}
 ==Behind the scenes==
 *As revealed in ''[[Pottermore]]'', [[J. K. Rowling]] had originally devised this class to be called "Beasts", and to be compulsory from the first year.<ref name="Pottermore">''[[Pottermore]]'' - [http://www.pottermore.com/en/book1/chapter10/moment2/hogwarts-school-subjects/2 Hogwarts School Subjects (J.K. Rowling's thoughts)]</ref>
+*The year in which creatures are covered seems to depend on the teacher. Silvanus Kettleburn covered salamanders with Fred and George Weasley in their fourth year, while Rubeus Hagrid taught about salamanders in Harry Potter's third year. Hermione Granger stated that a person like Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank probably wouldn´t have covered Thestrals until reaching NEWT-level, whereas Rubeus Hagrid taught about Thestrals in Harry's fifth year.
 ==Appearances==
 *''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)]]'' {{Mention}}
-*''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]''
+*''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'' {{Mention}}
 *''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' {{1st}}
 *''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)]]''
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 *''[[LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4]]''
 *''[[Harry Potter Trading Card Game]]'' {{Mention}}
+*''[[Pottermore]]'' {{Mention}}
 == Notes and references ==