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- Luna: "After all, Cornelius Fudge has got his own private army."
- Harry: "What?"
- Luna: "Yes, he's got an army of Heliopaths."
- Hermione: "No, he hasn't."
- — Luna Lovegood and Hermione Granger bickering over the existence of Heliopaths[src]
A Heliopath was a supposed spirit of fire which was claimed to gallop and burn anything in its path.[1]
History[]
This was one of the many magical creatures that Luna Lovegood claimed to exist, but which was not documented anywhere else. She claimed that Cornelius Fudge, Minister for Magic at the time, had an army of these creatures at his command, though given his ineptitude for leadership, as well as Luna's beliefs being dubious, this was unlikely. She also claimed there were plenty of eye-witnesses to their existence.[1]
After Luna became the professor of Field Studies at Hogwarts, during her first class, she suspected a Thunderbird might have been in a fight with something large, and hoped it was not a Heliopath.[2]
Etymology[]
Heliopath appears to derive from the Greek hēlios for 'sun'[3] and the suffix -path from the Greek -pathēs for '-sufferer'[4] combined to form one who either practises a therapy or suffers from the sun.[5]
Appearances[]
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (First mentioned)
- Harry Potter: Magic Awakened (Mentioned only)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 16 (In The Hog's Head)
- ↑ Harry Potter: Magic Awakened - Field Studies classes - Desert (see this video)
- ↑ Oxford Dictionaries: helio-
- ↑ Oxford Dictionaries: -path
- ↑ Oxford Dictionaries: -path See homoeopath or psychopath