SOURCE: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (2000).

DESCRIPTION: "...They looked like deformed, shell-less lobsters, horribly pale and slimy-looking, with legs sticking out in very odd places and no visible heads. There were about a hundred of them in each crate, each about six inches long, crawling over each other, bumping blindly into the sides of the boxes. They were giving off a very powerful smell of rotting fish. Every now and then, sparks would fly out of the end of a skrewt and, with a small phut, it would be propelled forward several inches..." (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling)

NOTES: These disgusting creatures look like lobsters without shells. They are the hybrid children of manticores and fire crabs.The skrewts give off a revolting smell like rotting flesh. Small at birth they grow to enormous size. Their skin becomes thick-shelled armor. They emit a blast of fire from their tails periodically. The males have a stinger while the female have a vampiric mouth on their bellies. Hagrid has the Fourth-Years raise the skrewts as a project in his class on magical animals. The creatures grow rapidly, gaining a hard shell and killing each other off. By the Third Task of teh Triward Tournament there are only two left, each ten feet long, scorpion like with thick armor. Harry defeats it by casting his spell at its underbelly where the armor is thinner.

HISTORY: These creatures were sadly cut from the film's finale in the maze.

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