Pixie

: "The pixies were electric blue and about eight inches high, with pointed faces and voices so shrill it was like listening to a lot of budgies arguing."
: — Description of Cornish pixies[src]
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The pixie was a small, bright blue, mischief-making magical beast.
== Description ==
The pixie was able to fly, and enjoyed lifting people up by their ears and depositing them on the tops of trees and buildings, showing incredible strength for creatures of their tiny size. It could also steal things. Pixies could only communicate with other pixies; their voices were described as "so shrill it was like listening to a lot of arguing budgies". Pixies made squeak sounds. They bore live young.
== History ==
In Cornwall in the 17th century, Dymphna Furmage, a witch on holiday, was abducted by pixies. This led to a lifelong fear of them, which drove her to request that the British Ministry of Magic humanely eradicate the pixie species. Her request was declined, and she died in 1692.
During the 1986–1987 school year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Murphy McNully tried Pixie Spotting with Jacob's sibling and Barnaby Lee in the Magical Creatures Reserve to hone his visual acuity.
During the 1988–1989 school year, Patricia Rakepick taught fifth-year students in Defence Against the Dark Arts class how to handle pixies.
250px|thumb|left|Cornish pixies frozen stiff after making havoc in Classroom 3CIn 1992, Gilderoy Lockhart brought a group of "freshly caught" Cornish pixies to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry during his tenure as Defence Against the Dark Arts professor. Claiming that they were devilishly tricky creatures, he thought they would be perfect for a practical lecture on Defence. He lost control of them, and attempted to round them up using the incantation Peskipiksi Pesternomi. This however did not work, as Lockhart most likely fabricated this charm, amongst numerous other things. The pixies picked up Neville Longbottom by the ears and attacked other classmates who were trying to whack them with their books, hanging Neville on the ceiling. Lockhart hurried out of the room, asking Harry, Ron, and Hermione to "nip the rest of them back into their cage". Hermione Granger ended the riot using a Freezing Charm. Due to this, Ron Weasley proclaimed that the only thing he learned from Lockhart was "not to let pixies loose".
During the 1993–1994 school year, a water well on the grounds of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry became infested with five swarms of pixies. Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger were tasked to clearing out the infestation with use of the Tickling Charm.
During the Battle of Hogwarts on 2 May 1998, Harry Potter came across a cage containing Cornish pixies in the Room of Requirement, whilst he was searching for Ravenclaw's Diadem.
== Behind the scenes ==
* In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the pixie is said to be able to fly despite being wingless; however, in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, they are clearly shown with wings. This was most likely the result of a design preference of the producers of the film.
* In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the Cornish pixie is given a Ministry of Magic Classification of XXX - in Harry Potter's own copy, he humorously notes in his annotation that a more suitable classification would be "XXXXXXX if you're Lockhart."
* In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, there is a nest of pixies in the Room of Hidden Things. They are presumably killed by Goyle's Fiendfyre.
* In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, you have to hit them twice with the Freezing Charm the first time freezes them in a bubble, the second hit destroys them.
* In Harry Potter: The Creature Vault, Jody Revenson speculates that J. K. Rowling may have made pixies blue as a reference to the Picts, an ancient Cornish tribe that painted their skin blue, or as a nod to the various other blue things associated with Cornwall, like the Cornish Blue rooster and Cornish Blue cheese.
* Twenty pixie figures will be scattered across the grounds of the Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure attraction at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
* In the Spanish version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 'kelpie' was translated as 'pixie', suggesting that it was Gilderoy Lockhart's Cornish pixies which were in the well.
== Appearances ==
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* Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
* Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First appearance)
* Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
* Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
* Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Mentioned only)
* Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) (Mentioned on comic book) (Appears in flashback in Disc 2)
* Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
* Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Mentioned on comic book)
* Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
* Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) (Mentioned on comic book)
* Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game)
* Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
* Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
* Pottermore
* Wizarding World
* LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
* LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (DS version)
* LEGO Harry Potter
* Harry Potter Trading Card Game
* Harry Potter for Kinect
* Harry Potter: The Creature Vault
* The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (As part of Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure)
* Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
* Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
* Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells
* Harry Potter: Magic Awakened
==Notes and references==