Runespoor

The Runespoor was a three-headed snake native to Burkina Faso in Africa. Runespoors are commonly six to seven feet long, with orange and black stripes. Since they were very easy to spot, the Burkina Faso Ministry of Magic had to make several forests Unplottable for the Runespoor's use.

Description
The Runespoor has long been associated with Dark Wizards, and what is known of their habits is due in large part to the Parselmouths that have conversed with the creatures.

According to the writings from Parselmouths, each of the Runespoor's heads serves a different function. The left head is the planner, it decides where the Runespoor is to go and what it is to do next. The middle head is the dreamer (it is common for a Runespoor to remain stationary for days lost in glorious visions and imaginations) and the right head is the critic whose fangs are highly venomous. It evaluates the efforts of the left and middle heads with a continual irritable hissing. It is common to see the far right head missing, as the other two heads often band together to bite it off when it criticises the other two heads too much. Because of this, the Runespoor rarely lives to a great age.

The Runespoor bears its young in eggs that it produces through its mouth, and is the only magical beast known to do so. Runespoor eggs are very valuable in making potions to stimulate mental agility and have flourished on the black market for several centuries.

The runespoor is a known corporeal form of the Patronus Charm.

In the runic alphabet, the three heads of the Runespoor are used to represent the number three.

History
Newt Scamander kept a Runespoor in his suitcase by December 1926.

Mathilda Grimblehawk and her partner investigated a case involving a runespoor, and runespoor eggs, that had caused Bilius Finbok to be sent to the hospital.

Behind the scenes
The Runespoor could represent the character of a writer: the first head dealing with plot outlines and story plans, the second head dealing with description and the 'flesh' of the story (often getting stuck spending hours describing a simple scene) and the third head being the writer's internal critic- questioning everything they do and making them revise every single word. Of course some writers start ignoring their internal critic (represented by the runespoors biting off the third head) and without that criticism the story (or the runespoor) dies.

Notes and references
Runespoor Runespoor Widłowąż