Hogwarts Society of Magical Creatures

The **Hogwarts Society of Magical Creatures** is a non-canonical secret student club at Hogwarts mentioned in *Ignore the Dementor*; it gathers those students who are actually magical beings masquerading as humans. It was founded in the early 19th century and was successfully kept secret from non-member students, faculty and headmasters for almost two centuries, usually pretending to be a study group for whatever subject the current faculty sponsor taught (although other solutions were also found at such times when no non-human was on the staff). In the 1990s, the faculty sponsor was Severus Snape, and the cover thus was *Remedial Potions*.

After the non-human nature of two of its members became public knowledge in the aftermath of their defeat of Voldemort during the summer of 1996, the club decided to reveal its existence at the start of the fall term in order to more actively fight against prejudice and discrimination.

## Rules

The club has the following rules:

* No house rivalry is allowed during meetings.
* At meetings, members support each other unconditionally no matter how they need to act outside the club.
* Members don't ask what species other members belong to, but wait until they are comfortable sharing.
* At meetings, first names are used.

However, an exception to the third rule is that they do ask if members are werewolves, since those have special needs that the club has set up a buddy system to handle. There are rooms in the dungeons specifically set up for werewolves to transform safely.

## Members

Although the numbers may vary, there are usually two or three members per year. During the 1995/96 school year, the following students were members:

* Severus Snape (faculty sponsor, Slytherin Head of House, Vampire)

* Matthew Bastien (seventh-year Hufflepuff, Veela)
* Graham Montague (seventh-year Slytherin, Gargoyle)
* Brook Baye (sixth-year Hufflepuff, Naiad)
* David Birch (sixth-year Hufflepuff, Dryad)
* Hestia Talon (sixth-year Ravenclaw, Roc)
* Neville Longbottom (fifth-year Gryffindor, High Elf)
* Draco Malfoy (fifth-year Slytherin, Eros)
* Harry Potter (fifth-year Gryffindor, Dementor)
* Kara Brynhildr (fourth-year Slytherin, Valkyrie)
* Colin Creevey (fourth-year Gryffindor, Druid)
* Luna Lovegood (fourth-year Ravenclaw, Fairy)
* Bartholomew Beedle (third-year Ravenclaw, Vampire)
* Aurelius Jones (third-year Ravenclaw, Half-werewolf)
* Aurora Jones (third-year Hufflepuff, Half-werewolf)
* Dennis Creevey (second-year Gryffindor, Druid)
* Eir Herja (second-year Gryffindor, Valkyrie)
* Aceline Hesop (first-year Slytherin, Veela)

During the 1996/97 school year, a second-year vampire and a first-year harpy joined, but their names are not mentioned.

Among previous members are mentioned Aceline Hesop's mother (also a veela), Eileen Prince (a vampire), Amelia Bones (an aswang) and Madam Pomfrey (a high elf); the latter helps identify new members. Although it is not said outright, Frank and Alice Longbottom presumably were members, both being high elves, and quite likely so were Augusta Longbottom, her husband and her brother-in-law; Remus Lupin was *not* a member – when Snape tried to invite him, he refused to acknowledge that he was anything but a normal human. Filius Flitwick was faculty sponsor before Snape, and presumably a former member if he were a Hogwarts student in his youth; when the latter took over is not mentioned, but it seems to have been before the oldest of the current members joined, so sometime before the 1989/90 school year. However, during Snape's time as a student (1971-78) the cover was *Remedial Divination*, indicating that Sybill Trelawney's predecessor as Professor of that subject was the sponsor then (and presumably a non-human); they most likely left the post in the summer of 1979, at which point Flitwick would have taken over.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 6
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 25
3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 7
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 11
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 8
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 10
7. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 24
8. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 21
9. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 15
10. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 18
11. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 12