The trick was to offer each creature some milk. examination in 1996, where fifth-year students had to locate it amongst a group of hedgehogs. They were featured in the Care of Magical Creatures O.W.L. Unfortunately the "hedgehog" in question was a Knarl and the day after Silvia left out a plate, the family's garden was destroyed, leaving Constance feeling guilty. Īs a child, Constance Pickering told her next door neighbour Silvia, a Muggle, that hedgehogs loved it when snacks were left out for them overnight. ĭuring the 1989–1990 school year, sixth-year students in Care of Magical Creatures class were taught about how to properly handle Knarls by Professor Silvanus Kettleburn.
During the 1988–1989 school year, Knarl caused the destruction of several sets and costumes for the play Equinox Enchanted. History īarnaby Lee owned a Knarl (whose name was also Knarl) during his time at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Fred and George Weasley once paid Mundungus Fletcher six Sickles for a bag of knarl quills, to experiment with for possible use in their Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes products. Casting a well-aimed Stunning Spell at the Knarl would work well and would not do any permanent harm to the animal. A potioneer would often have to remove Knarls from a daisy patch in order to pick the flowers. Diet Ī Knarl between two hedgehogs - the hedgehogs had a lighter face Muggle children were often blamed for damage committed by a Knarl.
It resembled the hedgehog so much so that there was only one known (behavioural) difference between them: when food was left out for a hedgehog, it would appreciate and enjoy the gift a knarl would see it as an attempt to lure it into a trap and hence savage the garden of the householder who left the food.