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  2. List of organisms named after the Harry Potter series

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    The skeleton of Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis. Prior to being reclassified into the Pachycephalosaurus genus, the assigned species name, Dracorex hogwartsia, translates to "the Dragon-King of Hogwarts" Newly created taxonomic names in biological nomenclature often reflect the discoverer's interests or honour those the discoverer holds in esteem. This is a list of real organisms with ...

  3. Magical creatures in Harry Potter - Wikipedia

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  4. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - Wikipedia

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    Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (book), a 2001 guide a book about fictional creatures in the Harry Potter universe; Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film), a 2016 film and a prequel to the Harry Potter film series; Fantastic Beasts, the overall spinoff film series

  5. List of organisms named after works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    The name Tieta honours the main character from the homonymous novel Tieta do Agreste by the famous author Jorge Amado, who was born in Bahia and lived in Salvador City [the type locality]. The name Antonieta further means 'priceless', alluding to the value of Tietasaura derbyiana sp. nov. as the first nominal ornithischian species from Brazil ...

  6. Badger - Wikipedia

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    The badger is the emblem of the Hufflepuff house of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter book series (1997–2007), it is chosen as such because the badger is an animal that is often underestimated, because it lives quietly until attacked, but which, when provoked, can fight off animals much larger ...

  7. List of Fantastic Beasts characters - Wikipedia

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    Newt Scamander is an introverted British wizard and magizoologist, as well as a member of Hogwarts' Hufflepuff House. [1] In Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, Newt arrives in New York, where he encounters Muggle Jacob Kowalski, demoted auror Porpentina "Tina" Goldstein and Tina's Legilimens sister Queenie Goldstein.

  8. Harry Potter Series Names His Dark Materials’ Francesca ...

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    HBO’s as-yet-untitled Harry Potter TV series is starting to take shape, with the naming of both its showrunner and a key director. Francesca Gardiner, whose writing and producing credits include ...

  9. List of fictional dogs - Wikipedia

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    Quincas Borba, the dog whose name is the same as his human's in Machado de Assis' Quincas Borba; Randolph, a Labrador retriever and the narrator of A Dog About Town, by JF Englert; Red, in Jim Kjelgaard's Big Red; Ripper, Marjorie Dursley's pet dog in J.K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban