Deer (Harry Potter)

Deer is the common name for a family of ruminant animals grouped by the fact that the males grow antlers in adulthood. A male deer is called a stag, whereas a female a doe. One particular species of deer was the Scottish stag. Deer was the preferred food of the Hebridean Black breed of dragon.It was a possible corporeal form of the Patronus Charm. Deer had become synonymous with the Potter family, as Harry Potter's stag Patronus was widely known.Venison is meat from deer consumed by humans, dragons, and Snargaluffs as food.
==History==
The deer was a reoccurring Patronus within the Potter family: James Potter,J.K. Rowling and the Live Chat, Bloomsbury.com, 30 July, 2007 his wife Lily, and his son Harry all had deer for Patronuses. James Potter was also an Animagus who could take the form of a large stag. Professor Severus Snape, as a sign of his undying affection for Lily, also had a doe for a Patronus, which persisted long after her death.In 1998, Snape cast this Patronus as a guide to lead Harry Potter to the Sword of Gryffindor hidden within a frozen lake of the Forest of Dean. Harry felt an instinctual familiarity with the doe Patronus.Deer lived in the Forbidden Forest. In 1890, a deer drinking at a lake in the forest was suddenly attacked and killed by a strangely aggressive Dugbog, with its death witnessed by Poppy Sweeting and her friend.Hogwarts Legacy Early Access Story Mission Walkthrough on YouTube In May of 1996, when Rubeus Hagrid was discussing Grawp with Harry and Hermione, he said that he was able to get his own food; "birds an' deer an' stuff".
==Deer Patronuses==
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Category:Known Animagus Forms
Category:Deer
Category:Forbidden F Forest
Category:Known Patronus Forms