Daniel cleared his throat and raised his hand, "Dark creatures differ with sometimes not too greatly with magical creatures, but they do differ. For one, dark creatures are magical in nature and they are not animals. Another is that they do not have a normal life cycle like other animals do, they cannot reproduce, and they exists only as an embodiment of an evil intention.

Lastly, they often seek to harm others, not to sustain life, but for unknown reasons. The Red Caps are a great example. They bludgeon unsuspectingly travelers so that they can use their blood to stain their cloth caps red. It doesn't give them food, it doesn't allow them to reproduce, they do it purely out of nastiness. One way of thinking about it is to say that they are a physical embodiment of an evil, harmful intent. And if you think about the essence of magic being intent, Dark creatures are a physical embodiment of Dark Magic.

Daniel then paused and sighed. And then he added, "Sometimes the difference of a dark creature and a magical creature can get a little blurry. Werewolves are a great example. Sometimes they are not Dark creatures, but when they are, they attack people with the intention of passing the disease on to others or kill them. Daniel sighed after saying the last word, he had never meant to say so long but he actually did...

Celandine raised her hand and provided the textbook answer with her own little additions, "The three primary ways a dark creature differs from typical magical and mundane creatures are; They are magical in nature- like how the Pogrebin makes you not care anymore and lose all hope and will to carry on," Cela shuddered, those things were quite horrible and their brand of hope-sucking magic was really hard to resist.

"Secondly, they often do not have a complete life cycle the way a typical animal would but exist simply as a physical extension of an evil intention. In other words they aren't born and do not grow in the sense that typical magical or mundane creatures do. In most cases we don't actually know how they... ummm... well spawn isn't really the right word either is it? We don't know how they come to exist." Hmm, the words 'evil intention' tugged something in her mind, but Cela put it aside to finish her answer.

"They seek actively to harm, often for no other reason than that's what they do. They don't kill out of necessity, no hunting to eat or grow or anything like that. A lot of dark creatures lure people to their death with no obvious purpose; into bogs and rivers and things like that, at least Hinkypunks and Kappas do that- Even the muggles know about those ones through their myths and legends."

Celandine wrinkled her nose, mentally reviewing all the dark creatures she had personally come in contact with and surprising herself with how many there were. But the words 'evil intention' still tugged at her. Cela raised her hand again, this time to ask a question, "Excuse me Professor Kazimeriz, is it possible that dark creatures may have come about from extremely powerful and malevolent curses, maybe even being used alongside illegal breeding techiques? Because something like that could in theory be self-perpetuating since there is always 'evil intent' in the heart of some witch or wizard, somewhere." She could point a few out quite easily herself.

"That could possibly fuel or feed a dark creature, not to mention the sorrow, fear, hopelessness and death that the dark creatures extract and maybe absorb from us." Did that even make sense? Cela cleared her throat and added, "It just seems there is a bit of a common thread of dark magic between dark creatures like lethifolds," Cela supressed a shudder, " And curses with malevolent intent."

Herminny raised her hand cause she had some thoughts on this issue as well and said, "Well sir, dark creatures are more dangerous then normal ones cause they are more more spontaneous, they don't think of the effect it will have on others cause it's just there nature, they are not trying to hurt anyone. Another major difference is they usual look more dangerous built for combat, it's just the kind of creature they are. And the third major difference is that dark creatures usually lurk in areas not so pleasant or freindly which means they don't have time to think whats good, whats bad, what becomes seccond nature to them is survival and thats why there dangerous, they have to be".

Paris wanted to beam. She hadn't earned any points in DAD before and she was rather proud that Kazimeriz had pointed her out and even her Slytheirn tendencies. She raised her hand, "Dark creatures tend to seek out humans or wizards to cause them harm. Dark creatures are usually crossbreds of other types of creatures. They were created by a witch or wizard like a basilisk." She offered.

Emalyn fought very hard, telling herself not to just say "dark creatures are just plain dangerous." Instead, she let this question go, listening to the other students' answers with interest.

Ana raised her hand "Well they're impossible to train or domesticate and will probably harm with no reason. They can cause negative effects on humans like dementors, right? and they don't have a normal life circle, like other animals"

Twilight sat there and listened, she knew there was more to this then thatr. WHat had her parents said again..... her mother was an auror, she had heard talk. Plus her grandfather had gone and sat her down this summer and had talked about several dark creatures.

Slowly Twilight raised her hand, then she said. " It is tru that dark creatures are totally magical beings and dont complete a natural life cycle. There is a debate if werewolves and vampires who are part human during sometimes are such or not. Maybe it depends on where thier loyalties and intent lies? But i think what really makes them differetn from other beings is what they live off of: most live off the fear of thier victims, who consist often of humans wizards or muggles. THey either detect them and kill or feed off the fear of thier victims until thier vicitms are like a vegetable. Or they lure them and kill thier victims. They use deciet, fear and lure to gain thier vicitms."

Emiliano raised his hand to answer to the question. "Well, dark creatures differ from the magical creatures or animals...on the fact that they just attack to do harm, to feed from their fear towards them, they don't have a complete life cycle, and they cannot be domesticated like magical creatures can..." He said with sort of a firm voice. It was turning quite chilly since the arrival of the ghosts around the classroom.

Anna continued to look forward as Professor Kazimeriz spoke. She listened as he spoke of fear and its role in Defense Against the Dark Arts. Anna thought carefully about the three primary ways dark creatures differed from other creatures and then raised her hand. "First of all, dark creatures differ from other creatures in that they are magical in nature. For example, a boggart is a shape-shifter that can take the form of a multitude of different people or objects, depending on what a particular person fears the most. Boggarts exist simply to cause another to fear. They have no other purpose," she said. "Second of all, dark creatures often times do not have a complete life cycle the way a typical creature would. Dark creatures exist only to assist in evil intentions. They exist only to do harm and damage, such as the banshee---a dark creature whose screams have the power to kill. Finally, dark creatures set out to harm another simply because that is the creatures sole purpose for existing. Red caps, for example, seek to kill humans, so they can use their blood to stain their cloth caps red," she finished. "Dark creatures act only out of pure nastiness and evilness."

"That'll be two points for conversing in my class, Diggory. Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington is here as my guest, not for your entertainment. Focus on the lesson." Kazimeriz said sternly.

"Very good- but refrain from quoting the texts verbatim. I presume all of you know how to read; what I wish to hear is proof that you are comprehending the material." Professor Kazimeriz cautioned the boy.


"A good guess, but not completely accurate. True dark creatures are not usually crossbred or wizard-generated; instead they are literally corporeal evil-- that is, the physical embodiment of what society views as 'evil' or negative intentions. That being said, many such creatures are deeply misunderstood. For example, werewolves and vampires fall into somewhat different category, being that they are part-human and merely act on a base, animalistic level to satisfy a very dangerous need. But we will talk more about werewolves, vampires, and other complex creatures during another class... for the purposes of this class we are going to be focusing on specific dark creatures: those that feed on Fear." A ghost of a smirk crossed Professor Kazimeriz's face.

"They do not inflict dark magic in the same way that we as wizards think of 'magic' with wands and such, but yes, they are capable of altering mood and doing physical and psychological damage to their victims."

"Very true. With some rare exceptions, you will never see a juvenile dark creature for this very reason. I am sure this disappoints those of you who would find a baby boggart to be a delightful pet, but regrettably, as Miss Green stated, they merely exist with no true life cycle." Kazimeriz nodded. "Two points are awarded to every student who offered an opinion. Now then... let's get to it. As you are aware, the topic of this class is Fear, so let us turn our attention to dark creatures and fear. Who can name one dark creature that feeds on fear?"

Emiliano raised his hand..."A boggart, perhaps. It takes the shape of our greatest fear..." He said.

Seymour raised his hand, pushing his glasses back up his nose with the other. "One of a few select dark creatures that feed on fear is the boggart, sir." He paused, considering something. "Sir-- how exactly do these dark creatures use one's emotions as sustenance? I understand that they do not have the typical body circumstances or life cycle as most creatures, so how do they use a bodiless form of psycological feeling to operate their biology?" It was really a fascinating study, if not slightly befuddling at times. How would that work?

"Dementors suck on our fear and bring us fear" said Barry hand raised.

"Dementors. They feed on fear and bad experiences absorving all the hapiness from people" she said raising her hand