Wizard poacher

"I well recall the time when, on a peculiarly perspicacious journey into the heart of the Fijian rainforest, while engaged in a legendary odyssey to rescue the Giant Fire Crab from extinction at the hands of unscrupulous wizard poachers, I had occasion to rest a while in the shade of a banyan tree."

— Gilderoy Lockhart, Marauding with Monsters

A wizard Poacher

A wizard poacher was a wizard who hunted creatures illegally. They hunted to kill a creature in order to gain something from it (e.g. the meat, horns, skin, hair or teeth).

History

In 1878, Dinah Hecat single-handedly took out the largest poaching ring in eastern Wales in the Great Poacher Raid of 1878, from which she confiscated a Hebridean Black skeleton that later hung from the ceiling of her classroom at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

In 1890, a Poacher Pack was staying in Hogsmeade with orders from Victor Rookwood to capture a student of Hogwarts. They were staging a secret dragon fighting ring called Horntail Hall. At one point, they tried to capture a Hippogriff called Highwing who was rescued by the student with Natsai Onai. The presence of poachers around Hogwarts was a great concern for the creatures that lived in the Forbidden Forest.

Newt Scamander rescued Frank, a Thunderbird, from wizard poachers trafficking him in Egypt and gave it a temporary home in his suitcase, hoping to release him back into his natural habitat in the wilds of Arizona.

Gilderoy Lockhart claimed that while in the heart of a Fijian rainforest, he had time to rest and hide from such wizards in a banyan tree on his mission to save Giant Fire Crabs from them. However given his dishonesty and fraudulence, this deed was presumably carried out by one of the more courageous and accomplished wizards from whom he stole credit of impressive-sounding adventures and various feats of bravery.

Before the 2010s, Kellen Carrion was the boss of a group of poachers. They captured and traded magical animals around the world. Long Shouren was an unwilling member of the group until he decided to flee with a dragon egg he wanted to rescue. The rest of group stayed together. Qui LeBlanc eventually joined it.

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) (First mentioned)
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay (Mentioned only)
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film) (Mentioned only)
• Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (Mentioned only)
• Harry Potter: Wizards Unite (First appearance)
• Harry Potter: Magic Awakened
• Hogwarts Legacy