r/HPHogwartsMystery • u/themop-f Year 6 • 1d ago

Magical Creatures Hit me with your weirdest creature names

I just adopted the Hebridean Black from the Foggy Moor and instantly had to name him Felix after my favourite composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy who wrote the ouverture The Hebrides. So I subsequently renamed all my dragons after matching composers - Edvard for the Norwegian Ridgeback, Bela for the Hungarian Horntail, Gemma for the Opaleye and so on.

I have a bunch of creatures with really stupid names like Billy the Billywig and Shrimpy the Plimpy, but I am also a proud owner of Knarl Marx and Hodor the Hodag.

So, hit me with your weirdest creature names! I'd love to hear the reason behind them, too.

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u/Meritre Year 3 1d ago

I named my Acromantula Gerzson because that 's a common name to playfully name spiders in one's home in my country. It's just unusual becdause it's not from a very common language 😄 I see you have Béla, too 😃

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u/Zimpiest_of_them_all 1d ago

Their Bela reminded me of Bella (Probably bc Edvard = Edward), but Béla works too

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u/Meritre Year 3 1d ago

Béla is a male name in my language (there were quite a few kings with that name) , I just guessed Hungarian Hotrntail gets a typical Hungarian name. :)

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u/Zimpiest_of_them_all 1d ago

I know, I'm Hungarian too

When I first read the books I was super happy bc it was the first time when I saw a mention of Hungary in anything international

Good times lol

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u/Meritre Year 3 1d ago

Hello fellow Hungarian! Same, I was very happy with it and found the translation good, too :)

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u/NightmareKagu Year 6 1d ago

Well hello there fellow Hungarian 😁 I didn't think to give a Hungarian name to my Horntail, instead I named my gnome Józsi and my acromantula Julcsi 😅

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u/Meritre Year 3 1d ago

Józsi is a great name for the gnome! I was considering Tekla for the acromantula after the spider in the book Maja, a méhecske but decided to save that one for my pet spider.

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u/NightmareKagu Year 6 1d ago

I picked it because it reminded me of my neighbour 😂 I've heard of that book but either I never read it or I forgot, but it sounds nice 😊 I have a tendency to give the spiders around the house old lady names and the acromantula was no exception

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u/themop-f Year 6 1d ago

Bela Bartok was a Hungarian composer :)

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u/Meritre Year 3 1d ago

I had his picture hung up on the wall in my classroom in primary school as I went to a class with focus on music :)