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Kreacher of Grimmauld Place: A Great Movie Creature
OotP FilmAs part of their summer movie preview, Yahoo Movies has posted a gallery of 20 great movie creatures. Included on this list is a magical creature familiar to Harry Potter fans: Kreacher, the house elf at Grimmauld Place. Other creatures of note are Gollum from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, ET, Jabba the Hut from Return of the Jedi, the original King Kong from the classic film made in 1933, Asterious the Minotaur from the newly released Prince Caspian, and the Flying Monkeys from The Wizard of Oz (which in this editor’s opinion are still some of the scariest beings ever found in a children’s movie, but it could just be me ;)
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I agree, the flying monkeys are terrifying! Whenever I watch that movie I always dread the parts where they come in …

That doesn’t make sense. We’ve only seen Kreacher very, very briefly in OOTP, while Dobby played a rather significant role in the Chamber of Secrets.

KT … I was thinking the same thing. It should have been Dobby.

Why Kreacher? What about one of the other creatures? Poor Dobby! Poor Buckbeak! :(

Agreed!! Maybe they meant Dobby but got mixed up?
I can’t think why else they would use Kreacher unless it’s because of Dobby’s unexplained absence since CoS… :S


Yay! Thanks Sue for posting that! I think that even thought Kreacher doesn’t play such a big role in OOTP, it’s his role in the entire series that puts him onto the list. He’ll be back for the DH film…squeeee I can’t wait!


yeah..its a little bit weird that they took Kreacher. I guess they had to pick someone from HP. but Kreacher rocks. I was reading those parts of DH few days ago(again…No.7) and how he was happy with RABs locket around his neck….oi…he rocks

I was terrified of the dark crystal when I was little, I could watch starwars, and i watched clash of the titans, and I watched wizard of oz on a daily basis, my sister who watched the dark crystal all the time, was scared of the wizard of oz, or at least she was bothered by it, this coming from a girl who asked for a Hoth Wampa (sp) for Christmas when she was three…I just don’t get it…

seems like a strange pick, epecially since there are so many more creature-y creatures (does that make sense? more animal-like) in the HP books. However, the other creatures on the list are human-ish, so I guess I just wish they’d picked dobby.

Love Kreacher, and the flying monkeys are fantastic, but Buckbeak in POA is one of my fave creatures in the whole series. So cute.

Interesting. Like others, my pick from the HP series probably would have been Buckbeak; not just because of the CG (which was flawless), but because of the brilliant little mannerisms and subtleties that really sold him as a living animal.
Kreacher was very good, though, definitely the second best creature the series has had; even though Dobby was in it more, Kreacher was by far the better in terms of modelling and animation. I guess that’s what five years’ worth of advancements in CGI does…

If I was going for a creature from a Harry Potter film I would have selected the basilisk, although Buckbeak the Hippogriff deserves a mention too. Come to think of it, they don’t come much scarier than Professor Snape! He’s a good head in front of the Flying Monkeys in that respect and way ahead of Godzilla.

I am also puzzled with Kreature’s inclusion. And like others, I think Buckbeak was the best creature in the HP series. Gollum is by far the greatest film creature but my personal favourite creature of all time is….Mogwai from gremlins!

Why is Luna/Evanna picture shown for 20 great movie creatures! She is one of the 20 great movie angels!

It may just be me, but I only see one character, listed, that is not either ugly as sin.(or just really creepy) The only exception, IMHO, is ET. I thought he was kinda cute….. I see Dobby as too cute, really.

Kreacher? Seriously? He had a whole 1 minute (not even that) of screen time, whereas Dobby was quite important in Chamber of Secrets. very strange indeed. Maybe they are commenting on the special effects used for Kreacher and that he’s ‘better’ than Dobby? Ah who knows.
Anyway, I probably would’ve picked one of these rather than the House-Elves… Buckbeak, the basilisk, Lupin as a werewolf, the Dementors, the Horntail. :)


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