~Care of~
Magical Creatures


Hello class, I am Professor Scamander. I will post the week's lesson on
Monday, along with the assignment over it. It is kept posted until Friday evening. Assignments are due sometime before Saturday. So the last day is Friday. I will grade your
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~Lesson~


Read the first 4 paragraphs of Chapter 1 in Monster Book of Monsters very carfully. The hiding of creatures in the magical community from muggles has a very complex and indepth history.
You might notice that all of the creatures your book lists as creatures thought to be real in the middle ages have something in common: All of them are large animals, which plays a large part in why they were so hard to hide, and so easily spotted by muggles. It also didn't help that beasts such as the dragon did not know any better as to keep out of the sight of non-magic people, muchless to not eat them. Creatures such as the centaur at leasts had the common sense not to go looking for them.

As it says in the second chapter, many magical creatures sighted by muggles were mistaken for some other animal. You never know.....from far away, and if I did not know anybetter, I may have mistaken a centaur for a man sitting on a horse that was looking the other way.

A few of the creatures that contributed to the debate at the summit meeting of 1692 were representatives from the populations of centaurs, merpeople, and goblins. The goblin's can sometimes be described as "difficult", and were the only ones at the meeting to not aggree that twenty-seven species, ranging in size from dragons to fairies, were to be hidden from Muggles so as to create the illusion that they had never existed outside the imagination.

I was very suprised when I was a
young wizard to learn that it took us [the magical community] so long to find a solution to the many sightings of magical creatures.