SPOILER!!: TALKING SQUID and Professor Williamson!
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The Giant Squid 
Barty was tired of hearing everyone talk about all the boring creatures of the lake and not about him, the largest and most important one.
He raised a large tentacle up and this time deliberately smacked the back of the head of the Care of Magical Creatures man, making a very wet, squid-like sound at the same time. The sound of a squid clearing its throat.
"And?" he prompted the W man loudly. "And? Merpeople, grindylows, and lobalugs all interact with the Giant Squid how?"
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Originally Posted by
BanaBatGirl
Williamson sighed heavily and turned to the rest of the class, stumbling forward unexpectedly as a spongy, wet THING slapped the back of his head and drenched his shirt.
Whoa whoa! "Bar--- Mr. Henry!" he exclaimed, half-surprised and half-pleased. Wow. THE SQUID HAD TOUCHED HIM! He had been touched by a squid. He was SO HONORED!
"Yes of course, of course Mr. Henry, I hadn't forgotten you! I was saving the best for last!" he beamed at their friendly visitor and nodded toward the class. "As Mr. Henry, our resident giant squid reminded me, how do merpeople, grindylows, lobalugs, and all the other residents of the lake interact with the Giant Squid?"
Whaaat? The squid it.. it talked!
Desiree was in shock, her mouth might even have been hanging open slightly. She rubbed her eyes making sure it was really Mr. Henry. It was. Since when did squids talk? even giant magical pink ones.. That was definitely something you didn't see every day.. I mean how did he even learn how to talk??
She was still trying to wrap her mid around a talking squid.. but Desiree giggled when the squid knocked the Professor in the back of the head, he seemed kindof friendly, you know if you could call a giant talking squid friendly..
She thought about the question and listened to a few other students answers while adding a line to her notes, struggling a little without a desk.
SPOILER!!: Notes!
Merpeople- are sentient beings
- refused to be classified as ‘beings,’ preferring the status of ‘beast’ like Centaurs
- society is based around organized communities
- have a great love of music
- language (Mermish) sounds like screeches above water
- have grayish skin and long, wild, dark green hair. Their eyes are yellow, as are their broken teeth, and they wear thick ropes of pebbles around their necks. Their powerful, silver fish tails allow them to swim expertly, while the upper parts of their bodies resemble those of humans. Merpeople are also very tall, and during the second task, Harry encountered one in the lake near Hogwarts who was seven feet tall with a long green beard and a choker of shark fangs, carrying a spear
- keep grindylows as pets
- use lobalugs as weapons
- [at least] one tribe domesticated a hippocampus
- Sirens of Greece are the earliest recorded Merpeople and most aesthetic
- Selkies of Scotland and the Merrows of Ireland are less pleasing to the eye.
- all share a love of music though
- MoM classification: XXXX
Hippocampus- beast with the head and forequarters of a horse, and the tail and hindquarters of a giant fish, making it somewhat similar in appearance to an over-sized seahorse
- generally found in the Mediterranean, a blue roan specimen was caught by Merpeople off the coast of Scotland in 1949 and domesticated.
- classification: XXX
Grindylows- small, horned water demons that live in the weed beds at the bottom of lakes in Great Britain and Ireland
- has green teeth, pointy horns and long fingers, which are used to strangle prey
- are violent and aggressive towards wizards and witches and Muggles, although merpeople have been known to domesticate them and keep them as pets
- the trick to combating them is to break their grip; their abnormally long fingers are strong but very brittle
- mostly eat fish, algae, and small sea creatures
- have been known to eat humans; thus the status of “dark creatures”
- classification: XX
Lobalugs- aquatic creatures found at the bottom of the North Sea
- simple creature; ten inches long comprising a rubbery spout and a venom sac
- uses its venom sac as a weapon, contracting it and expelling the venom in the direction of an attacker if threatened
- merpeople use it as a weapon
- collecting their venom for use in potions is strictly prohibited
Giant Squid (Mr.Henry)
She raised her hand not quite sure what she was going to say, but deciding to just go with it,
"I think it could be a lot like what some people said, Mr. Henry is like their leader.. It could almost be like a whole underwater government." well their version of a government anyway,
"He protects them and they all work together for food, and they all look for him to guidance..?" or something like that.
It made sense, it was either that or he ate everyone else, he was the top of the food chain after all. But Desiree didn't like that idea.. she liked to think he was a friendly squid.