If someone carried a large number of magical creatures, they had better not travel by Apparition, Floo Powder, or Portkey.
But Newt Scamander probably had not thought that much about it when he stowed away across the Dover Strait. Fortunately, nothing went wrong then.
Wizards sometimes borrowed Muggle transportation, but Severus intended to use the carriage as his "green box." Paris Zoo was near the Paris Botanical Garden, and he released all the animals from their cages.
Gong Saiyi and the others had caused quite a disturbance at the Natural History Museum, reducing many animal fossils to powder.
Magic could make certain things move, but it did not give them life, just like an Inferius. Fundamentally, animal specimens were not much different from mummies; if anything, the former looked even more lifelike.
But none of them were alive, no matter how real that Twelve-wired bird-of-paradise specimen looked when it moved.
When hunting Spiders in the Forbidden Forest, Pomona had once turned leaves into butterflies. They gave off a green glow as they fluttered through the forest.
That was nothing like the green-glowing Inferi in the pool.
There was a kind of butterfly called the Lunar Swallowtail. It had bright yellow wings with black markings shaped like crescent moons, hence its name.
Yet people doubted whether it truly existed, because the butterfly specimen presented as evidence turned out to be a forgery.
They had eaten chestnut cake aboard the "International Train." It was a little too sweet, but it tasted exactly like the kind eaten by the Austrian empress over a hundred years ago. The recipe had never changed.
He had been reading then—Discourse on the Origin of Inequality. She sat on his lap and turned to a page describing how primitive people would strike someone who bullied them, run away,