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- "Peaceful, ape-like herbivores with the ability to turn invisible when threatened."
- — Description[src]
The Demiguise is a peaceful, herbivorous magical beast that can make itself invisible and tell the future which makes it very hard to catch.[2]
Description
It is found in the Far East, but only wizards and witches trained in their capture can even see them. It resembles a cross between a sloth and an ape with large, black eyes and long, silky hair.[3]
Demiguise pelts are highly sought after as the hair can be woven into Invisibility cloaks.[3] Cloaks made from their hair eventually turn opaque, losing their invisibility effects as time passes.
Demiguises have precognitive sight so that the only way to catch them is to do something completely unpredictable.[4]
The Demiguise's ability to make itself invisible is used to symbolise the number zero, in the runic alphabet.[5]
History
Dougal the Demiguise
At some point before late-1620[6], Phineas Fletcher smuggled a Demiguise to North America which escaped and bred with a Ghoul; their offspring were the first Hidebehinds.[7]
Magizoologist Newton Scamander owned a Demiguise called Dougal who escaped from his suitcase during his visit to New York in 1926 and caused a disturbance in the Ginzberg Delaunay department store while caring for an occamy that had also escaped. He later found them both with a help of Queenie and Tina Goldstein, as well as No-Maj Jacob Kowalski.[8]
Behind the scenes
- A Demiguise appears in the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, played by Edd Osmond.
- Given the Demiguise was described as peaceful, it is most likely that they were classified as XXXX because of the fact that special knowledge is required to catch them, not because of any danger. Though Newt Scamander said that Demiguises do bite if provoked.
Appearances
A Demiguise as a POP! Vinyl
A Demiguise as shown on Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (First mentioned)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned only)
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Mentioned only)
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay (First appearance)
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)
- Fantastic Beasts: Cases from the Wizarding World
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (play) (Mentioned only)
- J. K. Rowling's official site
- Pottermore
- LEGO Dimensions
- Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (Mentioned only)
Notes and references
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts and where to find them: The original screenplay - scene 91
- ↑ ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’: 43 Things to Know about the New Wizarding World Story
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- ↑ "'Fantastic Beasts': Meet the Creatures" at Entertainment Weekly
- ↑ J. K. Rowling's official site
- ↑ Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry" at Wizarding World - Isolt Sayre arrived with The Mayflower in 1620 and encountered a hidebehind after several weeks in the mountains.
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2017 edition)
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay, Scene 90
| Study of Ancient Runes | |||||
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| Professors: Bathsheda Babbling · Clodagh Dromgoole · Elspeth MacGillony | |||||
| Textbooks: Advanced Rune Translation · Ancient Runes Made Easy · Magical Hieroglyphs and Logograms · Rune Dictionary · Spellman's Syllabary | |||||
| Known runes: Acromantula · Demiguise · Ehwaz · Eihwaz · Fwooper · Graphorn · Hydra · Quintaped · Runespoor · Salamander · Unicorn · Unknown · Mark of Merlin | |||||
| Magical creatures by classification | |
|---|---|
| X | Flobberworm · Horklump |
| XX | Augurey · Bowtruckle · Chizpurfle · Clabbert · Diricawl · Fairy · Ghoul · Gnome · Grindylow · Imp · Jobberknoll · Mooncalf · Porlock · Puffskein · Ramora · Winged horse |
| XXX | Ashwinder · Billywig · Bundimun · Crup · Doxy · Dugbog · Fire crab · Fwooper · Glumbumble · Hippocampus · Hippogriff · Hodag · Jarvey · Knarl · Kneazle · Leprechaun · Lobalug · Mackled Malaclaw · Moke · Murtlap · Niffler · Nogtail · Pixie · Plimpy · Pogrebin · Red Cap · Salamander · Sea serpent · Shrake · Streeler · Winged horse |
| XXXX | Centaur · Demiguise · Erkling · Erumpent · Golden Snidget · Graphorn · Griffin · Hidebehind · Kappa · Kelpie · Merperson · Occamy · Phoenix · Re'em · Runespoor · Snallygaster · Sphinx · Tebo · Thestral · Thunderbird · Troll · Unicorn · Winged horse · Yeti |
| XXXXX | Acromantula · Basilisk · Chimaera · Dragon · Horned Serpent · Lethifold · Manticore · Nundu · Quintaped · Wampus cat · Werewolf |