Blast-Ended Skrewt

The Blast-Ended Skrewt is a hybrid creature bred by Rubeus Hagrid in the fall of 1994, by crossing Manticores and Fire Crabs. If Hagrid used magic or somehow got the two to mate is unsure. Newly-hatched Skrewts looked like pale, slimy deformed shell-less lobsters. They had no heads but had legs sticking out at odd angles. They were about six inches long and smelled strongly of rotten fish. Sparks flew out of their ends every so often which propelled them forward a few inches. Some of the Skrewts had stings, these are the males, and the females had suckers on their body to suck blood.

After two months of caring for the Skrewts, they were three feet long, extremely ill tempered, making it hard to get close to one. They grew gray, shiny armor over their pale bodies and began to look like a cross between giant scorpions and elongated crabs. The males held their stingers over their backs, and were highly dangerous and repulsive.

By June the Skrewts had grown ten feet long, and were incredibly lethal and dangerous. They looked like giant scorpions with stings curled over their backs. Their shiny armor deflected magic spells, and they used their blasts to propel themselves at a foe. It's single undefended spot was it's armor-less underside. One of these Skrewts were placed inside the Triwizard Tournament maze, and Harry defeated it by using the Impedimenta Curse on it's underside.

Hagrid began breeding the Skrewts at the beginning of September, and had several hundred. By the following June, he only had one, which was the one that was placed in the maze. Hagrid never found what they ate, and they killed each other off mostly, so it's not surprising they died so quickly. The remaining one may have been released in the forest, or maybe Hagrid kept it for breeding, we don't know.

Appearances

 * Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
 * Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire