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Rare Creatures Week at the Silvanus Kettleburn Nature Reserve. If you're interested in learning more about unique and unusual magical creatures, there will be guided tours highlighting some of the more uncommon creatures in the UK. But I'd like to talk about one you won't find on any reserve: The Quintaped, rated XXXXX by the Ministry of Magic.
The Quintaped is exclusive to the Isle of Drear for a very good reason. According to legend, there used to be two different families on the Isle of Drear: the MacBoon clan and the McClivert clan. There was a lot of bad blood between these two families, which resulted in a duel between the family patriarchs. After the McClivert patriarch was killed, the McCliverts transfigured the MacBoons into deadly and monstrous five-legged beasts. They were resistant to all attempts to untransfigure them, and the monsters eventually devoured the entire McClivert family.
The Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures attempted to untransfigure them as well to no avail. Which is unfortunate, because the Quintaped is carnivorous and especially loves the taste of human flesh. The Isle of Drear is
so dangerous that the Ministry of Magic made it unplottable a few couple hundred years ago.
If you're interested in learning about more unusual (and slightly less deadly) creatures, stop by the Silvanus Kettleburn Nature Reserve next week! :-)