Harry Potter is the name of the famous book for children, written by J.K. Rowling.
It’s about a teenager magician, whose parents were killed by an evil sorcerer, called Valdemort.
Until the age of eleven, he lived with his muggle relatives, aunt Petunia, uncle Vernon and their fat boy, Dudley, who were completely against any sort of abnormality. Now, after being recovered from their hands by Hagrid, the gamekeeper at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry has to accommodate to his new life as one of the greatest magicians in history, although he is but a child.
He also has lots of magician friends like Ron Weasely and Hermione Granger, or Albus Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall, but on the other side he has some enemies too, like Draco Malfroy, Professor Snape and of course, Valdemort himself.
What makes this book really interesting is the way the story is told, the way all the action is blended with magic and well known myths and legends. This project has the purpose of naming and describing some of the magical creatures found in this amazing tale.


Creatures:



Basilisk: an ancient giant creature with the head of a bird and the scaly body of a snake and the power to turn creatures into stone. Harry battled this creature in “ The Chamber of Secrets”.



The Blast-Ended Skrewt is a stange hybrid creature bred by Hagrid at Hogwarts in the fall of 1994 by crossing manticores and fire-crabs. Newly-hatched skrewts looked like pale, slimy, deformed, shell-less lobsters. They had no heads but had legs sticking out at odd angles. The creatures were about six inches long and smelled strongly of rotten fish. Sparks flew out from their ends every so often which propelled them forward a few inches. Some skrewts had stings--Hagrid suspected that these were the males--and the females had suckers on their bellies to suck blood.

After two months, the skrewts were about three feet long and extremely ill-tempered. When kept together, they at