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fairy - ferret - Fireball, Chinese - fire crab - fire slug - fish - Flesh-Eating Slug - Flobberworm - forest troll - frog - furball - Fwooper
fairy and fairy-like creatures 
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Tiny creatures that look like perfectly formed humans with insect wings. They are extremely vain and quarrelsome, liking nothing better than to serve as decoration (see CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS). Fairies have their own weak form of magic, which they use primarily to avoid being eaten by predators. According to Scamander, fairies are held to have very limited intelligence, and they do not use any form of language that humans understand (but see languages) (FB).
Fairy-like creatures
Fairies are common in folklore the world over, usually depicted as small ethereal beings which live out of sight of humans, often in woodlands. Fairies have magical powers to fly, cast spells, and predict the future. They can be friendly but are sometimes depicted as mischievous or even malevolent. Ms. Rowling’s version of fairies is quite different from the traditional type, more like insects than intelligent nature spirits. (The Lexicon page 109).
ferret 
- Someone wrote to the Daily Prophet's Problem Page to ask if the Ministry would look the other way if he turned his brother's children into blood-sucking ferrets (the answer was 'no') (DP)
- Buckbeak enjoys a plate of dead ferrets (PA14).
- Mad-Eye Moody once turned Draco into one (GF13).
- Mortlake once owned some extremely odd ferrets (CS3).
- During the practical portion of the Transfiguration O.W.L., Hannah Abbott turned her ferret into a flock of flamingos, temporarily halting the test (OP31).
Fireball, Chinese
XXXXX - China
See DRAGONS - CHINESE FIREBALL
fire crab
XXX - Fiji
Also written fire-crab (OP31)
The fire crab looks like a tortoise with a jewelled shell which can
shoot fire out of its rear end. It is constantly in danger of being killed
for its shell, which unscrupulous wizards will use as cauldrons.
The fire crab is native to Fiji, where there is
a coastal reserve set aside for its protection
(FB). Fifth years, for their Care of Magical Creatures O.W.L., had to
demonstate how to feed and clean out a fire crab without sustaining serious
burns (OP31).
See also BLAST-ENDED SKREWT (GF24).
fire slug
Creature that lives in the Brazilian rainforests. Newt Scamander is currently studying fire slugs (fw73).
fish and other water creatures
Flesh-Eating Slug
Apparently a frightening creature, since someone was scared enough of them to turn a Boggart into one (PA7). Hagrid once needed a repellent for Flesh-Eating Slugs that were getting into the cabbages, and went shopping for it in Knockturn Alley (CS4).
Flobberworm
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A ten-inch, toothless brown worm which eats vegetation, especially lettuce. Hagrid, after losing his nerve with the hippogriff debacle, had his
third year students raise these for a semester, which was completely
pointless as they prefer to be left alone and to do nothing
(PA6, FB).
See also FLOBBERWORM
USE IN POTIONS.
forest troll
XXXX
See TROLL.
frog
Ron has a big one in a tank in his room
(was filled with frog spawn before). They also live in the Weasleys' garden pond.
Frogs are used in
potion-making.
See TOADS AND FROGS.
"furballs"
These creatures, described as the color of custard, were available for sale in the Magical Menagerie (PA4). They are probably Puffskeins.
Fwooper
XXX - Africa
African bird with brightly-colored feathers. A Fwooper's song will drive the listener insane, so each bird must be sold with a Silencing Charm on it (FB).
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