Crup

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A Crup was a wizard-bred dog.

Description

It strongly resembled a Jack Russell Terrier, except that a crup had a forked tail. They were clearly wizard-bred dogs since they were extremely loyal to wizards, and ferocious toward Muggles. Crups were great scavengers, eating everything from gnomes to old tyres.^[1]

A group of crups is known as a "pack". Crup puppies are known as cruppies.^[2]

Crup owners were required by British wizarding law to remove the forked tail of the animal when it was six to eight weeks old, using a painless Severing Charm, in case they were noticed by Muggles. A licence from the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures also had to be obtained, and the owner had to pass a test to show that they were able to control the animal in Muggle-inhabited areas.^[1]

History

Thornton Harkaway, President of the Magical Congress of the United States of America in 1760, was a breeder of crups until his pack savaged several local No-Majs in Williamsburg, Virginia which left them only able to bark for a period of 48 hours. This lead to Harkaway leaving office in disgrace and the relocation of the Magical Congress of the United States of America headquarters to Baltimore, Maryland.^[3]

Liz Tuttle's sister owned a crup. At some point around the late 1980s, the crup had cruppies.^[2]

Rubeus Hagrid's fifth year Care of Magical Creatures class studied this creature in 1996.^[4] They were amongst those creatures that most often came up on Ordinary Wizarding Level examination and thus part of the Ministry of Magic approved curriculum for Care of Magical Creatures students at that level.^[5]

The popular singer Celestina Warbeck was a known breeder of rough-coated crups.^[6]

Behind the scenes

• According to W.O.M.B.A.T., it may be possible for crups to interbreed with dogs.
• President Harkaway's breeding of crups could be considered anachronistic, as the Jack Russell terrier itself was not first bred until the mid-1800s. However, it is possible that the crup predates the Jack Russell, and the similarities between the two were only noted in more recent times.

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Mentioned only)
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
• Pottermore
• Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery

Notes and references

Care of Magical Creatures
Care of Magical Creatures at Hogwarts
Hagrid's Hut · Forbidden Forest · Care of Magical Creatures classroom · Magical Creatures (club)
Professors	Silvanus Kettleburn · Rubeus Hagrid · Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank (substitute teacher)
Textbooks	The Monster Book of Monsters · Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Creatures studied at Hogwarts
Blast-Ended Skrewt · Bowtruckle · Crup · Fire crab · Flobberworm · Hippogriff · Knarl · Kneazle · Murtlap · Niffler · Porlock · Salamander · Streeler · Thestral · Unicorn