Category:Germany

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Germany is a country in Central Europe with over 82 million inhabitants (WP).

Contents 1 Notable places 2 Witches and wizards from Germany 3 Magical creatures 4 Quidditch and other sports 5 Other important events

Notable places

The following places in Germany are of note in the wizarding world:

• The Black Forest, an area of high magical activity that hosts vampires and the Erkling as well as the broomstick company Ellerby and Spudmore (PS5, FBAZ, QA9)
• Heidelberg, home of the Heidelberg Harriers, a Quidditch team (QA8).
• It is possible, but not at all certain, that Nurmengard, Grindelwald's prison, is also in Germany (DH18, DH23).

Witches and wizards from Germany

Important witches and wizards from Germany include:

• Rudolf Brand, Captain of the Heidelberg Harriers in 1953 (QA7)
• Ellerby and Spudmore, founders of the broomstick company of the same name. Although their company is located in Germany, their names give rise to the suspicion that they are not native Germans (QA9).
• Gregorovitch, a famous wandmaker who apparently lived in Germany for some time, even though his name does not sound German
• Bruno Schmidt, a child who killed an Erkling by hitting it over the head with his father's collapsible cauldron (FBAZ)
• From his name, it is possible that the Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is German or has German ancestors (DH18).

Magical creatures

The following magical creatures are native to Germany:

• Bowtruckles: Small, twig-like tree guardians (FBAZ)
• Erklings: Small, humanoid beasts from the Black Forest that devour children (FBAZ)
• Vampires: beings that drink human blood and can apparently be found in the Black Forest (PS5).

These creatures can be found in central and northern Europe or worldwide and thus probably also in Germany:

• Ashwinders: Pale grey serpents born from magical fires (FBAZ)
• Centaurs: Beings that are half horse, half human and dwell in secluded forests (FBAZ)
• Clabberts: Creatures with a pustule on their head that flashes red when Muggles approach (FBAZ)
• Doxys: Small, humanoid creatures with insect wings that infest houses (FBAZ)
• Dugbogs: Marsh-dwelling creatures that resemble a piece of wood and attack travellers (FBAZ)
• Gnomes: Troublesome little humanoid creatures that infest gardens (FBAZ)
• Glumbumbles: Flying insects that produce a melancholy-inducing treacle (FBAZ)
• Graphorns: Large grey beasts with two long, sharp horns that inhabit mountainous regions and whose hide repels most spells (FBAZ)
• Hags: Beings that resemble Muggle fairy tale witches (GF19)
• Hippogriffs: Creatures with an eagle's head, wings and front legs and a horse's body and hind legs (FBAZ)
• Horklumps: Mushroom-like creatures hat infest gardens (FBAZ)
• Jobberknolls: Birds that let out a scream in which they regurgitate backwards every sound they have ever heard before their death (FBAZ)
• Knarls: Beasts resembling hedgehogs (FBAZ)
• Merpeople: Creatures with a human upper body and a fish's tail (FBAZ)
• Mooncalves: Shy creatures that perform elaborate dnces in the moonlight (FBAZ)
• Nogtails: Demons that invade pigsties and curse farms with blights (FBAZ)
• Puffskeins: Fuffy round fur-balls that ae often kept as pets (FBAZ)
• Red Caps: Dark creatures that inhabit places where blood was shed (FBAZ)
• Snidgets: Very rare birds that were used as a ball in Quidditch before the invention of the Snitch (FBAZ)
• Trolls: Dumb, brutish creatures (FBAZ)
• Unicorns: Beautiful horses with a single horn that dwell in forests (FBAZ)
• Werewolves: Humans that turn into feral wolves at the full moon (FBAZ)
• Winged horses (FBAZ).

Quidditch and other sports

In ancient Germany, the game of Stichstock, a forerunner of modern Quidditch, was popular. The players had to puncture an inflated dragon bladder that was tied to a pole with the sharpened ends of their broomsticks. The bladder was defended by another player. The game died out in the 14th century (QA2).

Quidditch became popular on the continent, and thus probably also in Germany, by the early 15th century. The Heidelberg Harriers are a well-known professional German Quidditch team (QA8). Their seven-day match against the [Holyhead Harpies]] of 1953 is widely reckoned one of the finest ever seen. After the Harpies beat the Harriers, Harriers' Captain Rudolf Brand proposed to the Harpies' Captain and was hit over the head with her Cleansweep Five (QA7).

The broomstick company of Ellerby and Spudmore resides in he Black Forest, but their brooms were never successful in professional Quidditch (QA9).

Other important events

In late 1997, Voldemort comes to a small village in Germany, looking for the home of Gregorovitch. When the family who inhabit the house tell him that the wandmaker is no longer living there, he murders them (DH12).