Magical Creature Legacy

The Magical Creature Legacy

Mythical Creatures have always played a very important part in the Harry Potter storyline. They possess different attributes and more importantly, different owners.

The most ancient one may be the venomous and evil Basilisk, the serpent king left by the sinister Hogwarts founder Salazar Slytherin, in order to equip his true heir to clean Hogwarts of muggle-borns (We all know that).

But do you think the brave Godric Gryffindor would die leaving Hogwarts unprotected, when he knew that the Chamber of Secrets existed and could be opened to unthinkable results even many centuries later??

Yes, he must also have left his own magical beast, which could help his true heir to defeat Slytherin’s true heir and monster...

And the creature is undoubtedly Fawkes the phoenix, an immensely powerful and long living creature who could only be domesticated by the most noble and powerful wizards, and he was indeed the pet of the wizard qualifying all the expectations of Gryffindor, Albus Dumbledore. Fawkes must be of the time of Gryffindor who entrusted it with the responsibility of eliminating, or helping to eliminate, the Slytherin monster.

The way Slytherin made the litmus test of controlling his monster as being Parselmouth, the same way Gryffindor’s test would be- yes, the ruby encrusted Gryffindor’s sword.

I was curious that where would Fawkes be all these centuries and under whose care? And if indeed my theory about it being Gryffindor’s equivalent of Slytherin Monster, Gryffindor was quite shrewd in making his creature less conspicuous in myths and legends, unlike the much talked about and fanciful Chamber of Secrets.

This way, the heir of Slytherin would have been completely off guard (like Riddle was in the COS, when Fawkes ruined his complete plan) and didn’t prepare himself for the Gryffindor creature, which was immune to the Basilisk’s powers and could thwart it.

Well, I also wonder, we know and talked in detail about fantastic beasts of Gryffindor and Slytherin, but what about the powerful Rowena Ravenclaw (a talking eagle, perhaps) and Helga Hufflepuff (would she leave behind a fire breathing badger)??

Plus: Liked the pictures of the basilisk and the phoenix? Take the Fantastic Beasts quiz given in the Links section (given in the sidebar) and discover which Magical Creature do you relate with. Mail me your results!