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Mythical Creatures
They don't exist."
"There are plenty of eye-witness accounts. Just because you're so
narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose..."
"Don't ask."
Luna Lovegood is a most unusual young woman in many ways. One of those ways is her belief in a variety of creatures for which there is apparently no objective evidence.
Aquavirius Maggot -
Blibbering Humdinger -
Crumple-Horned Snorkack -
Heliopath -
moon frog -
Nargle -
Umgubular Slashkilter -
Wrackspurt
Luna spotted pale blobs floating in
the huge tank in the Department of Mysteries and incorrectly identified
them as Aquavirius Maggots. They were in fact brains (OP34). aqua L. "water" + virius possibly refers to
L. virus "venom, slime" or to L. vis "power"
maggot Eng. larval form of an insect, usually living in decaying organic matter The -ius ending is rather unusual for Latin; most nouns with similar declensions end in -ibus or -us.
Unknown species of creature that many people don't believe exists
(OP13) humdinger Eng. an outstanding thing Elusive, non-flying creature that lives in Sweden, which seems to be
very popular among readers of
The Quibbler.
Luna and her father planned
to take a trip to Sweden during the summer of
1996
[Y16]
to search for the Snorkack
(OP13,
OP38). Saying that an animal is crumple-horned means that its horns curl
in spirals.
snork Eng. a young pig (NSOED). A spirit of fire; huge flaming creature that gallops across the ground
burning everything in its path. Luna
believed during Harry's fifth year that then-Minister for Magic
Cornelius Fudge had an army of
Heliopaths at his command
(OP17). Helios G. the sun + path G. feeling Someone interviewed by
The Quibbler claimed
to have brought back a bag of moon frogs to prove his claim that he
had flown to the moon on a Cleansweep 6
(OP10). Known to infest mistletoe quite often
(OP21). Something or other that Luna believed
Cornelius Fudge Fudge had during
Harry's fifth year. We're assuming it's a creature of some kind because
of the context, but we're not absolutely sure...
(OP18). Invisible thing that floats in though a victim's ears and makes his or
her brain go fuzzy (HBP7). wrack Eng., chiefly Scottish The roots of weeds, especially
loosened from the soil
(NSOED) 
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