Charms Check

Magical Creatures

The Magical Creatures skill involves knowledge of , care for, handling of, and fighting magical creatures.

Governing Attribute

Spirit

Advancement

Courses: Five Magical Creatures courses are offered at Hogwarts.
Studying: You can earn up to two skill points per semester.
Research: You can learn up to two new spells or gain mastery in up to two new animals per month.
Freetime: You may join a club, get private tutoring, read books, or earn an additional spell per 4 freetime slots spent. You can also spend your freetime bonding with, training, or capturing creatures/animals.

Researching Creatures

Adeptness. If you research a creature, you’re able to extract potion ingredients from them (situation depending). For instance, if you come across a dead acromantula, you may be able to extract the venom without ruining it. If you come across a live one, your headmaster will determine whether you can try to tame it or must kill it first. For another example, billywigs could potentially just be “caught” and the wings extracted easily. In all of these cases, you must have specifically researched (must have adeptness) the creature in class or on your own in order to successfully extract the potion ingredient.

At the headmaster’s discretion, you may also gain a benefit in being able to tame, coerce, or persuade a creature that you have specifically studied.

Finally, if you have studied the creature, you can get the headmaster to tell you exactly what creature you’re looking at and can know its attacks and other basic stats upon request. This might be tough mechanically because the headmaster cannot memorize every creature every player knows. I recommend to headmasters to describe the creature first without providing the name of it. If the players suggest the name of the creature, you can ask whether they have researched that creature. If so, provide the info. Otherwise, continue without. You may also decide to add a dice roll here though I think this could be a diceless mechanic.

Taming. Taming involves rendering a creature docile. It is possible to trap a creature you have not tamed. It is possible to tame a creature without having trapped it. Typically, taming involves a dice roll using magical creatures skill. The default taming value is 5*Ministry Classification, however the headmaster may add or subtract from this depending on the situation.

Bonding. Bonding is different than taming. It involves actually creating a relationship with the creature such that they are yours. This does not mean, necessarily, that the creature must live with you. Bonding is described more in the following page.

Luring. Some creatures can be lured. If they have a desire to attack humans, for instance, then you can use yourself as bait. Alternative, you may know use their primary food source as a lure. This is different than bonding or taming them.

Trapping. Just because you have successfully trapped a creature, does not mean you’ve bonded with it or tamed it.

Mastery

Once you gain mastery with an animal, you can immediately identify it. By identifying it, you will know its size, general attributes, attacks, abilities, and its description. Since the headmaster won’t have a working knowledge of all the creatures you know, you can ask the headmaster for a description of a creature to guess which it may be, or you can give the headmaster a list of creatures you’ve mastered.

Curriculum

The first Magical Creatures course is offered in Year 3 at Hogwarts.

Magical Creatures I

Week 1Introductions
Week 2Owls
Week 3Owls
Week 4Owls
Week 5Dugbogs
Week 6Dugbogs
Week 7Lobalugs
Week 8Lobalugs
Week 9Mackled Malaclaws
Week 10Mackled Malaclaws
Week 11Billywigs
Week 12Lacewing Flies
Week 13Bicorns
Week 14Bicorns
Week 15Bicorns
Week 16Bicorns
Week 17Bicorns
Week 18Bicorns
Week 19Mooncalf
Week 20Mooncalf
Week 21Mooncalf
Week 22Mooncalf
Week 23Jarvey
Week 24Jarvey
Week 25Jarvey
Week 26Jarvey
Week 27Jarvey
Week 28Jarvey
Week 29Mortis Bat
Week 30Mortis Bat
Week 31Fire Crabs
Week 32Fire Crabs
Week 33Review for exams
Week 34Final Exam

Magical Creatures II

Week 1Introductions
Week 2Blast Ended Skrewts
Week 3Blast Ended Skrewts
Week 4Blast Ended Skrewts
Week 5Blast Ended Skrewts
Week 6Shrake
Week 7Shrake
Week 8Shrake
Week 9Shrake
Week 10Flitterby Moth
Week 11Giant Purple Toads
Week 12Fwooper
Week 13Fwooper
Week 14Fwooper
Week 15Horned Slugs
Week 16Horklumps
Week 17Flying Seahorse
Week 18Flying Seahorse
Week 19Flying Seahorse
Week 20Flying Seahorse
Week 21Granians
Week 22Granians
Week 23Granians
Week 24Granians
Week 25Jackalope
Week 26Jackalope
Week 27Jackalope
Week 28Jackalope
Week 29Phoenix
Week 30Phoenix
Week 31Phoenix
Week 32Phoenix
Week 33Review for exams
Week 34Final Exam

Magical Creature III

Week 1Introductions
Week 2Boomslang
Week 3Boomslang
Week 4Boomslang
Week 5Quintapeds
Week 6Quintapeds
Week 7Quintapeds
Week 8Quintapeds
Week 9Half-Giants
Week 10House Elves
Week 11House Elves
Week 12Goblins
Week 13Crup
Week 14Crup
Week 15Demiguise
Week 16Demiguise
Week 17Diricawl
Week 18Diricawl
Week 19Kneazel
Week 20Kneazel
Week 21Kneazel
Week 22Kneazel
Week 23Moke
Week 24Moke
Week 25Niffler
Week 26Niffler
Week 27Golden Snidget
Week 28Golden Snidget
Week 29Knarl
Week 30Knarl
Week 31Puffskein
Week 32Puffskein
Week 33Review for exams
Week 34O.W.L. Exam

Magical Creatures IV

Week 1Introductions
Week 2Glumbumbles
Week 3Glumbumbles
Week 4Grindylow
Week 5Grindylow
Week 6Grindylow
Week 7Grindylow
Week 8Hidebehind
Week 9Hidebehind
Week 10Thestrals
Week 11Thestrals
Week 12Nogtails
Week 13Nogtails
Week 14Porluck
Week 15Porluck
Week 16Plimpy
Week 17Plimpy
Week 18Hodag
Week 19Hodag
Week 20Augurey
Week 21Augurey
Week 22Augurey
Week 23Augurey
Week 24Ashwinder
Week 25Ashwinder
Week 26Ashwinder
Week 27Ashwinder
Week 28Ashwinder
Week 29Winged Horses
Week 30Winged Horses
Week 31Winged Horses
Week 32Winged Horses
Week 33Review for exams
Week 34Final Exam

Magical Creatures V

Week 1Introductions
Week 2Glumbumbles
Week 3Glumbumbles
Week 4Grindylow
Week 5Grindylow
Week 6Grindylow
Week 7Grindylow
Week 8Hidebehind
Week 9Hidebehind
Week 10Thestrals
Week 11Thestrals
Week 12Nogtails
Week 13Nogtails
Week 14Porluck
Week 15Porluck
Week 16Plimpy
Week 17Plimpy
Week 18Hodag
Week 19Hodag
Week 20Augurey
Week 21Augurey
Week 22Augurey
Week 23Augurey
Week 24Ashwinder
Week 25Ashwinder
Week 26Ashwinder
Week 27Ashwinder
Week 28Ashwinder
Week 29Winged Horses
Week 30Winged Horses
Week 31Winged Horses
Week 32Winged Horses
Week 33Review for exams
Week 34Final Exam

Creatures

For information on creature stats and creature mechanics, check out the Creatures page.