Flesh-Eating Slug

Flesh-Eating Slug
Species information
Eye colour	Black
Skin colour	Pale green
Related to	Slug
Native to	Great Britain
Mortality	Mortal
Distinction	Flesh consuming Omnivorous Corrosive slime
Affiliation	Dark Arts
Status	Extant

"Flesh-eating slugs prefer flesh, but they're happy to eat about just about anything... like my Flitterbloom."

— Bill Weasley regarding these slugs

A Flesh-Eating Slug was a dark magical creature very similar to its namesake, the common garden slug.

Description

The spittle of the Flesh-Eating Slug had a corrosive effect on both skin and plants.

History

During the 1989–1990 school year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Bill Weasley taught a group of sixth-year students about Flesh-Eating Slugs and instructed them on how to defend themselves from the creatures in one of his Defence Against the Dark Arts tutoring sessions.

A Flesh-Eating Slug as depicted on a label of Flesh-Eating Slug Repellent

It was a garden pest, and in 1992, the Hogwarts gamekeeper Rubeus Hagrid explained to Harry Potter that Flesh-Eating Slugs were ruining all of the school cabbages. The only known way to get rid of these slugs was by using a specific repellent that could be bought in Knockturn Alley.

The Flesh-Eating Slug was apparently a fairly frightening creature to some, since a Hogwarts student was scared enough of them to turn a Boggart into one.

Flesh-Eating Slugs on a pumpkin

Around Hallowe'en 2010, Flesh-Eating Slugs appeared in Hagrid's pumpkin patch and ruined some of the newly planted pumpkins.

During the Calamity which occurred in the late 2010s, several Flesh-Eating Slug Foundables were found being guarded by Troll Confoundables. Volunteer wizards and witches had to overcome these small obstacles by using the Knockback Jinx to knock the Trolls over and allow the slug Foundables to return to the Hogwarts vegetable patches.

Behind the scenes

• In the PS1 version of the Chamber of Secrets video game, they are depicted as being roughly the same size of adolescent humans, being able to move much faster than normal slugs and having a high tolerance to fire, although they can be incinerated with enough casts of the Incendio Duo Spell.

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First mentioned)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) (Illustration on a Flesh-Eating Slug Repellent container)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) (First appearance) (PS1 version)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Mentioned only)
• Pottermore (Mentioned only)
• Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
• Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
• Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells (Mentioned only)
• Harry Potter: Magic Awakened