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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
XX

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

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
Rating Unknown - Brazil

Creature that lives in the Brazilian rainforests. Newt Scamander is currently studying fire slugs (fw73).

fish
and other water creatures

Flesh-Eating Slug
Rating Unknown

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
X

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
Rating Unknown

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"

Custard-colored furballs, humming loudly, were on sale in the Magical Menagerie (PA4); these 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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