How did Hagrid breed a Manticore?

Rubeus Hagrid somehow managed to acquire Manticores, and got them to breed with fire crabs, creating the hybrid Blast-Ended Skrewts. This is especially strange since Manticores are supposedly sentient.
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How did Hagrid get the Skrewts?

The Blast-Ended Skrewt was a magical hybrid beast bred by Rubeus Hagrid in the autumn of 1994, by cross-breeding Manticores and Fire Crabs. Whether Hagrid used magic or somehow got the two different species to mate was unknown.
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What do Blast-Ended Skrewts look like?

Blast-Ended Skrewts are magical creatures. They look like deformed lobsters, with legs sticking out in very odd places, and have no visible head or mouth.
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What creature does Hagrid create?

8 BLAST-ENDED SKREWTS

In fact, these creatures were created by Hagrid himself, or he at least got them from an illegal breeder. Blast-Ended Skrewts are monstrous and quite dangerous, and they definitely aren't a good idea to introduce to a class of 14-year-olds.
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Is there a Manticore in Harry Potter?

The Manticore is one of the Wizarding World's most dangerous creatures. It is a sentient beast, capable of intelligent speech, but has not been classified as a being due to its violent tendencies.
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Are Chimera and manticore the same?

The manticore is a very powerful beast, weilding a scorpion's tail, dragon's wings, and a lion's body. It has also been described as very clever. The chimera is pretty much the same, but it breathes fire from one of it's four heads, which are that of a goat, a lion, and a dragon.
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Does a chimera lay eggs?

Like skates and some species of shark, chimaera reproduce by laying eggs. They lay these directly on flat sandy or muddy sea-beds. The size and shape of the egg will vary depending on the species. Females lay 2 eggs simultaneously, with several pairs laid each season.
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What is buckbeak a mix of?

A half-eagle, half-horse hybrid called a Hippogriff, Buckbeak was regal, proud, and gentle…so long as you showed him the proper respect.
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How are Hippogriffs born?

When they are breeding, Newt explains in Fantastic Beasts, a Hippogriff will build a nest on the ground and lay a single large egg, which hatches within 24 hours. Hippogriffs can usually fly within a week of birth, but it takes many months before they are able to travel great distances.
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What does the Furnunculus curse do?

The Pimple Jinx, also known as the Furnunculus Curse (Furnunculus), was a dark charm that caused a person to break out in boils/pimples when it came in contact with their skin.
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Which Slytherin claimed to have been bitten by a Flobberworm?

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While Dumbledore turns a blind eye, Hagrid has maimed several pupils during a series of lessons that many admit to being 'very frightening. ' 'I was attacked by a hippogriff, and my friend Vincent Crabbe got a bad bite off a flobberworm,' says Draco Malfoy, a fourth-year student.
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What do Giants call their chief?

They now live mostly in remote mountain areas in tribes, with a leader called a Gurg.
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What was the giant scorpion in Secrets of Dumbledore?

Description. A Manticore had the head of a human, the body of a lion, and the tail of a scorpion that would kill anyone instantly with its sting.
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What do Skrewts look like?

Overview. Blast-Ended Skrewts are creatures that look like deformed, shell-less lobsters, with no visible head, that periodically boost themselves forwards with an explosion in their tail.
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Is Goyle a powerful wizard?

It didn't appear that Goyle had any natural powers of note. His lack of intelligence, coupled with the fact that he seemed to torment other students in the most mundane of ways, make it seem as if Goyle was just a step above a squib.
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Is Buckbeak a girl?

Buckbeak, later renamed Witherwings, was a male hippogriff. He lived with Rubeus Hagrid during Harry Potter's third year at Hogwarts, along with a few other hippogriffs.
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Who has hippogriff Patronus?

Sirius kept Buckbeak with him while on the run during the 1994–1995 school year, and later kept him in his mother's bedroom while in hiding at 12 Grimmauld Place. After Sirius's death, Buckbeak came to be owned by Harry Potter through Sirius's will, though Harry allowed him to live with Hagrid.
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Is Buckbeak a griffin?

Hippogriffs, pegasi, and horses are all hunted by griffins as the latter have a strong attraction to the flesh of horses. As with many ancient mythical beasts, a hippogriff named Buckbeak (subsequently "Witherwings") features prominently in Harry Potter.
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What was aragog made of?

The body was sculpted separately from the legs. The actual animatronic featured a steel armature, which was covered with foam latex skin. Each one of the spider's hairs was manually inserted; the finer hairs were broom hairs, whereas the larger ones were feathers with a coat of synthetic hair and Lurex.
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Did JK Rowling create hippogriff?

Those quirks come from the fertile mind of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, of course, but she didn't make up the idea of a hippogriff all by herself. Though they don't exist in the real world – as far as we know – hippogriffs have shown up in literature since early Persian poems.
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Is Sirius Black a werewolf?

Yet, after Remus transforms following the events in the Shrieking Shack that led to Peter Pettigrew's identification, Remus's admission that he was a werewolf, and Sirius Black's status as a dog Animagus, while on the way back to the castle, Remus transforms into a werewolf and he and Sirius (in Animagus form) get into ...
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Did chimera have wings?

The Chimaera has been reimagined in a number of ways with different animal parts being added or rearranged. For example, the addition of dragon appendages such as a head and even wings. The Chimaera was said to be one of the offspring of Typhon and Echidna and was capable of breathing fire.
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Is a Griffin a chimera?

The best elements of each animal were taken, forming a novel creature usually more powerful than its constituents. This type of animal was given the name “chimera.” For example, the griffin, a combination of a lion and an eagle — both kings of their domains — was a legendary symbol of divine power.
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What is chimera The God of?

Chimera, in Greek mythology, a fire-breathing female monster resembling a lion in the forepart, a goat in the middle, and a dragon behind. She devastated Caria and Lycia until she was slain by Bellerophon.
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