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The elephant is the largest land mammal on earth, characterised by its long trunk, tusks, big, flat ears, column-like legs, and greyish to brown skin.[1] There are two main extant species of elephant as of the 20th century, one (Loxodonta africana) native to Africa, the other (Elephas maximus) native to south and south-east Asia.[1]

An elephant was one possible corporeal form of the Patronus Charm.[2][3]

History[]

Hedley Fleetwood had a Patronus that took the form of a woolly mammoth, an extinct species of elephant, a rare example of someone having an extinct animal as a Patronus.[3]

Elephant on a Bicycle was the name of a magical sweet produced by Honeydukes that enabled the consumer to produce animal noises, including those of an elephant.[4]

In 1943, Horace Slughorn was said to shake his head an old elephant bothered by mosquitos while Tom Riddle was goading him about the nature of Horcruxes.[5]

In the summer of 1991, Harry Potter though that he would look like he was wearing bits of old elephant skin with his school uniform at Stonewall High, which his aunt Petunia's had made by dying pieces of Dudley's old clothing.[6]

Aragog, an Acromantula spider, was said to be the size of a small baby elephant by 1993.[7]

A painting of an elephant hung in the Grand Staircase at Hogwarts.[8]

The Abraxan Winged horses owned by the Beauxbatons Academy of Magic were said to be the size of elephants.[9][10]

In early 1995, Draco Malfoy cruelly referred to Rubeus Hagrid, a half-giant, as the "elephant-man" to Harry Potter in order to provoke him.[11]

Elephant and Castle was the name of an area around a major road junction in London.[12]

In December 1995, Harry Potter witnessed wizards and witches at St Mungo's Hospital with elephant trunks.[13]

In the last battle of the Battle of Hogwarts on 2 May 1998, Lord Voldemort's giants were said to charge at Grawp, a fellow giant like bull elephants.[14]

At an International Symposium of Animagi held circa 2016, students from Uagadou School of Magic, a school located in Uganda, transformed into their Animagus forms (which included elephants and cheetahs) in a synchronised demonstration.[15]

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Notes and references[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Elephant" from Encyclopedia Britannica
  2. (see this image)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Wonderbook: Book of Spells
  4. Hogwarts Legacy
  5. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 23 (Horcruxes)
  6. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 3 (The Letters from No One)
  7. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 15 (Aragog)
  8. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) (see this image)
  9. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 15 (Beauxbatons and Durmstrang)
  10. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 16 (The Goblet of Fire)
  11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 24 (Rita Skeeter's Scoop)
  12. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 5 (An Excess of Phlegm)
  13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 22 (St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries)
  14. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 36 (The Flaw in the Plan)
  15. Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Uagadou" at Wizarding World
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