Creature Collection Trivia Quiz

Answer:

J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series has many different creatures throughout the series, some are mythological, some magical creatures and others are just pets.

The students have a class called 'Care of Magical Creatures' where we meet some of these, while others are found in the Forbidden Forest. The textbook the students use is called "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by Newt Scamander. Rowling actually wrote a book called this after she finished the series, with all the magical beasts in it.

Firenze:
Firenze is a centaur that we first meet in "The Philosopher's Stone". He is described as a palomino with startling blue eyes. Centaurs are known to be able to read the stars and predict the future but don't believe that they should attempt to change it.
When Harry is with some other students on detention in the Forbidden Forest they meet a hooded figure drinking the blood of a dead unicorn. This turns out to be Voldemort sharing Quirrell's body and he turns to attack Harry but Firenze comes charging in and saves him. He then carries him back to safety which makes the other centaurs mad as they consider it demeaning to be ridden by humans.
The next time we see him is in "The Order of the Phoenix" where he has been appointed by Dumbledore to teach Divination. He has been outcast from his colony for agreeing to do this. He is wounded fighting in the Battle of Hogwarts but survives and is accepted back into the herd.

Scabbers:
Scabbers is a brown rat owned by the Weasleys. He originally belonged to Percy but was passed on to Ron. He is a major part of the story in "The Prisoner of Azkaban" as he is discovered to be the animagus of Peter Pettigrew who betrayed the Potters and led to their deaths. He is believed to have been killed himself by Sirius Black, whom he frames for his crimes.
After Voldemort's defeat he chose to live with a wizarding family so he could follow what was happening. The book refers to him getting thin and stressed, which Ron puts down to Hermione's cat, but he is actually scared because Sirius has escaped from the wizarding gaol.

Errol:
Errol is an old grey owl who belongs to the Weasleys. Owls in the wizarding world are used as couriers of letters and parcels. They are magical creatures that can find their recipients without needing an address.
Errol was referred to as ancient by Ron and has trouble carrying larger loads, often colliding with things or found unconscious from exhaustion. After Ron loses Scabbers, Sirius buys him a new owl named Pigwidgeon.
Other notable owls were Harry's Hedwig and Percy's Hermes.

Trevor:
Trevor was a pet toad belonging to Neville Longbottom. He was a gift from his great uncle after he finally showed some magical ability and was accepted into Hogwarts. Neville kept losing him throughout his first year and he eventually left to live in the Black Lake.

Crookshanks:
Crookshanks appears in "The Prisoner of Azkaban" when he is bought as a pet by Hermione in the Magical Menagerie shop at the beginning of the book. He is a half-Kneazle which is an intelligent magical cat who can sense dishonesty in all its forms.
As such he recognizes both Peter Pettigrew as Scabbers and Sirius Black as his animagus, Padfoot, a large dog. He can obviously sense good and evil too, as he is seen talking to Padfoot but continuously attempts to kill Scabbers.

Fawkes:
Fawkes is Albus Dumbledore's pet phoenix, a mythological bird that cyclically bursts into flame upon its death and is then reborn from the ashes. They are magical creatures whose tears can heal any wound and save people on the brink of death.
Fawkes saves Harrys life in "The Chamber of Secrets" by blinding the Basilisk and then counteracting its venom in Harry.
Their feathers are used in wand making and are the rarest of the three supreme cores giving the wand great powers. Fawkes only ever gave two tail feathers and those wands belonged to Harry and Voldemort.
After Dumbledore's death he sang the famous Phoenix Lament and then disappeared and never returned.

Fang:
Fang is a large boarhound owned by Hagrid as a pet. Unlike many of his other creatures, Fang is not magical. Apart from his huge size, which scares many people, he is an ordinary dog that is actually a coward.

Aragog:
Aragog was an acromantula owned by Hagrid. Acromantula were huge spiders capable of feelings and talking, and who liked eating humans and each other.
Hagrid was given an acromantula egg when he was a student himself and kept the creature in a cupboard. Tom Riddle convinced everyone that this was the Monster of Slytherin that had opened the Chamber of Secrets and Hagrid was expelled, but not before he released Aragog into the Forbidden Forest.
Hagrid is again accused in "The Chamber of Secrets" when it is opened again and tells Harry, Ron and Hermione to visit Aragog. By this time he is the size of a small elephant with an 18-foot leg span; he has a wife and a massive colony of offspring who decide that the children would make a nice meal. They are only saved by Ron's flying car that comes to their rescue.

Buckbeak:
Buckbeak is a hippogriff, one of 12 that Hagrid brings to class when he is the Care of Magical Creatures teacher in "The Prisoner of Azkaban". A Hippogriff was a magical beast that had the front legs, wings and head of a giant eagle and the body, hind legs and tail of a horse.
Draco taunts the creature and is attacked leading to it being subjected to a death penalty. Harry and Hermione use the Time Turner to rescue not only Buckbeak but also Sirius, and the pair remain together until Sirius' death two years later.

Nagini:
Nagini is Voldemort's huge snake who we meet in "The Goblet of Fire". While Voldemort was hiding in the forest in Albania he murdered Bertha Jorkins and made Nagini his final horcrux. Her venom was part of the potion that led to his rebirth.
As a horcrux he had complete control over her and the connection between the two meant he could view the world through her eyes. As Harry was also a horcrux he had strange dreams where he also saw events from Nagini's viewpoint, such as her attack on Arthur Weasley.
She was killed during the Second Wizarding War by Neville Longbottom using Gryffindor's Sword. She was the last Horcrux to be destroyed allowing Voldemort himself to die.

And those wrong answers:
Reepicheep was one of the talking mice from "The Chronicles of Narnia" by C. S. Lewis.
The Lorax appears in a book of the same name by Dr Seuss.
Shadowfax is one of the special horses in J.R.R. Tolkien's series "The Lord of the Rings".
The Gruffalo is found in a children's picture book by author Julia Donaldson.
Bagheera is the black panther from Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book".