Harry Potter: 10 Ways The Muggle World Would Inevitably Discover Wizards

By Harry Thomas /

9. Magical Creatures

The next film set in the magical world will be Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which is set 70 years earlier than the modern-day Harry Potter films. Presumably this will cover everything from dragons to hippogriffs to flobberworms, or at least mention them. But going by Professor Lupin€™s lectures on Dark Creatures in his DADA lessons, or Hagrid€™s views on the various monsters he€™s loved over the years, there are an awful lot of dangerous, non-sentient creatures out there that Muggles don€™t know about. None of these creatures would be able to determine whether the human they€™ve just encountered is a wizard or not, and they€™re extremely unlikely to kowtow to the Ministry laws governing such creatures. There are also a lot of sentient magical beings that would cause a great stir in the Muggle world if they were revealed: centaurs, goblins, house elves, giants, veela, leprechauns, vampires, etc. We Muggles are convinced that we are the only sentient class on the planet; this kind of knowledge could start wars to rival the bloodiest in our history. Ron does mention in The Philosopher€™s Stone that, €œour lot have to keep putting spells on Muggles who€™ve spotted them (dragons), to make them forget.€ This must keep the folks at the Accidental Magical Reversal Squad extremely busy. But how do they know when a creature has been spotted? Does an alarm bell go off in their office every time it happens?