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Floressa's Third Year Defense Againest the Dark Arts Homework

Basilisks look like large snakes with green skin and yellow eyes. The average adult is 50 feet long.

Their most powerful ability is to kill anything that looks into their eyes besides phoenixes. They also have deadly venom in their fangs, which can only be cured by phoenix feathers.

Using basilisk poison is the only known way of destroying a horcrux, which makes it somewhat desirable.

Since basilisks have skin that deflects spells, one must use a sharp weapon to kill it.

Basilisks usual offensive tactics is trying to use their eyes to petrify, but if that doesn’t work, it uses its fangs.

Also, they use their fangs for defensive, or use pipes to escape.

A kelpie is a shape-shifting water creature. It usually takes on the shape of a horse with a bulrush mane, but there is a kelpie dubbed the Loch Ness monster that looks like a sea serpent.

Kelpies usually lets muggles onto their back and lead them into the water and eat them.

Their tactics aren’t very well known, since most victims die, but it is believed they use their teeth and shape shifting abilities for their attacks. Ironically, it is quite simple to capture a kelpie. You just need to use a placement charm to put a bridle on the kelpie’s head, which makes it harmless.

A sphinx has a human head and the body of a lion. They love riddles and puzzles. They often live in mazes and tell the traveler that he can pass and he can solve their riddle. If they give him the wrong answer, the traveler will become the sphinx’s meal.

Sphinxes use their lion claws for defense and offense, but you can trap it if you have enough time and skill. A sphinx is classified XXXX by the ministry of magic.

Sea serpents are aquatic animals with a horse like head and a serpents body. They are usually over a hundred feet long and fearsome looking, but there are no recorded accounts of them hurting humans. They usually mind their own business.