![]() ![]() ![]() Rowling’s also made it clear the favorite newcomer in the beastly world is the niffler, a platypus-like, trouble-making creature “with a penchant for anything shiny,” which Asma says could tie back to a religious tradition called animism, in which the world is full of “little mischievous spirits.” Get your history fix in one place: sign up for the weekly TIME History newsletterĪsma notes that many of the Wizarding World’s creatures are similar to some of the most famous in mythology.įor example, Scamander’s story introduces creatures like the occamy, described on Rowling’s site Pottermore as a “two-legged winged creature with a serpentine body, that is fiercely protective of its eggs,” which Asma says sounds a lot like the Greek mythological griffin, a winged lion known for aggressively guarding its eggs. “That they’re just creatures like us trying to get through life, and we can befriend them and they can help us and we can help them.” What I like about Rowling is she’s going back to this other notion of monsters,” Asma says. “So this makes monsters in the Christian tradition pretty much all evil. ![]()
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