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harry potter - Did Hagrid breed the blast-ended skrewt?


When answering this, I ran across this tidbit, which was quite interesting but, sadly, un-cited:



The Blast-Ended Skrewt is a hybrid creature bred by Rubeus Hagrid in the autumn of 1994, by crossing Manticores and Fire crabs (src: HP Wikia).
[citation needed] (src: DVK)



Was this actully sourced from canon or made up by wikia writer? If so, which level? (HP book? FB book? JKR? movie? game?)


I don't recall Hagrid ever mentioning how he ontained the skrewts; Fire Crab wikia article didn't mention Skrewts at all; and Manticore Wikia contained the same - and equally uncited - tidbit:




Rubeus Hagrid somehow managed to acquire Manticores, and got them to breed with fire crabs, creating the hybrid Blast-Ended Skrewts.



This is especially strange since Manticores are supposedly sentient.



Answer



To add to DVK and Mac Cooper's answers:


In Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them; there is a section regarding Controls on Selling and Breeding which states:



The 1965 Ban on Experimental Breeding has made the creation of new species illegal.


-Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them, Page xix.




However, there is a scribble (Harry or Ron's) saying "but no one's told Hagrid". I'm assuming they are implying Hagrid did breed experimental creatures; which perhaps could have been the Blast-Ended Skrewts.


I have attached a scan of the page as well (hope this is ok)Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them.


Another part of this theory is that the Blast-Ended Skrewts don't appear in Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them, but rather seem to be an amalgamation of a Fire Crab (Shoots fire from its read end when attacked) and a Manticore (Has a scorpions tail and repels most charms) and maybe some other creature(s?), perhaps a Flobberworm.


All throughout Goblet of Fire Hagrid seems to be learning just as much as the students do about these creatures to the point where he doesn't even know what they eat, which you would think that the Care of Magical Creatures teacher would at least know that before bringing them to class:



Yer jus’ feedin’ ’em today. Now, yeh’ll wan’ ter try ’em on a few diff ’rent things — I’ve never had ’em before, not sure what they’ll go fer — I got ant eggs an’ frog livers an’ a bit o’ grass snake — just try ’em out with a bit of each.”


-Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter Thirteen (Mad-Eye Moody).



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