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- "Harry turned and saw something monstrous cutting through the water toward them: a human body in swimming trunks with the head of a shark. . . . It was Krum. He appeared to have transfigured himself — but badly."
- — Krum after having transfigured himself into a shark in the Great Lake[src]
The shark (superorder Selachimorpha) was a type of large carnivorous fish characterised by five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that were not fused to the head.[1] A shark was one possible corporeal form of the Patronus Charm.[2]
History[]
In a 1913 Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry concerning Boggarts, a student's Boggart changed into a shark, to which the student used the Boggart-Banishing Spell to turn it into a flotation device.[3]
In 1995, for the second task of the Triwizard Tournament which took place in the Great Lake at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Viktor Krum partially transfigured himself into a shark to complete it.[4]
The Dukuwaqa, mascot of the Fijian National Quidditch team, was a magical creature capable of shape-shifting between the forms of a shark and a human.[5]
Behind the scenes[]
- Sharks were briefly mentioned in the W.O.M.B.A.T. test as a question about what would receive the heaviest punishment. Another one of the questions discussed using the Cruciatus Curse on a shark attacking a Muggle.
Appearances[]
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game) (Possible appearance)
- Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay (Mentioned only) (Appears as a Boggart form)
- LEGO Harry Potter
- LEGO Harry Potter: Building the Magical World
- LEGO Harry Potter
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
- Pottermore (Appears as a Patronus)
- Harry Potter (website) (Appears as a Patronus)
Notes and references[]
- ↑
Shark on Wikipedia
- ↑ Pottermore (see this image)
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay, Scene 69
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 26 (The Second Task)
- ↑ Pottermore - DISASTROUS OPENING CEREMONY LEADS TO QUESTIONS ABOUT QUIDDITCH WORLD CUP SECURITY (Archived)