Magical Magic Creature Spotlight: Crup

[sweettalkeress.livejournal.com]

So today we look at another kind of magical magic creature...

Crup

MOM Classification: XXX

Heh, that sounds like a child’s respiratory disease.

It’s an English dog that resembles a Jack Russell terrier with a forked tail. Oh, and of course, while it’s intensely loyal toward Wizards it’s also vicious toward Muggles. It’s so good to know Wizards are in the business of keeping pets that will attack those completely-inferior Muggles but which they can control, no?

But, anyway, because of this Wizards who want a license have to show that they can control their Crups around Muggles. What this test consists of I have no idea, but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t include “lets a Muggle approach and pet it.”

Oh yeah, and they also remove the dog’s tail after a certain point so that it doesn’t attract attention.

Comments

[charlottehywd.livejournal.com]

Good point. Wizards are hardly the most caring about the rights of other species, even the sapient ones.

It surprises me a bit that there isn't some sort of wizard SPCA organization out there. What with all the rampant animal abuse (school endorsed/institutionalized, too!), they would have plenty to keep them busy.

The thing that I find the weirdest about this is that this institutionalized abuse doesn't even do anything to help society. Companies that resort to animal testing can always try to excuse it by saying that they are finding new cures for diseases, but what's the benefit of turning toads/mice/rats/etc. into tea cups? Uh, other than ensuring that you never run out of tea cups?

As a side note, I sort of wonder what happens to the transfigured object if it's broken. Does it turn back into a horribly mangled animal? Somehow that would just make the whole thing worse.

[oryx_leucoryx]

I wish I could remember the fic or where to find it, there was one where Severus as a 1st year was doing well at Transfiguration until they started Transfiguring animals - at which point he refused to do the work. Minerva only understood what his problem was when he kept attempting to rescue her cat form from herself. Then she showed him how she transfigured the objects back into animals. Peter's object was broken, so she reparo-ed it first.

[jodel-from-aol.livejournal.com]

It's called 'Out of the Bag' and it's here:

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~brussell/stories.htm

[annoni-no.livejournal.com]

The fic is called "Out of the Bag" and can be found here:

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~brussell/out.htm

I really like that one, too.