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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth film in the Harry Potter series, directed by Mike Newell and released in 2005.
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"The oldest recorded merpeople were known as sirens (Greece) and it is in warmer waters that we find the beautiful mermaids more frequently depicted in Muggle literature and painting. The Selkies of Scotland and the Merrows of Ireland are less beautiful, but they share that love of music which is common to all merpeople."
— Newton Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Physical appearance
"Here and there at the dark windows, Harry saw faces...faces that bore no resemblance at all to the painting of the mermaid in the prefects' bathroom... The merpeople had greyish skin and long, wild, dark green hair. Their eyes were yellow, as were their broken teeth, and they wore thick ropes of pebbles around their necks." — Harry Potter compares the Selkies of Black Lake to a their warmer watered cousins Merpeople were creatures resembling half-human, half-fish hybrids (though they were not, in actuality, half-breeds). Like humans, merpeople came in a variety of appearances. For instance, the majority of the Great Lake Selkie colony had green hair, yellow eyes, and grey skin. Purplish hair was also noted. They also had mainly silver tails. It is very unlikely a human, or even other types of merpeople, would resemble that, proving that mermaids had individuality in their looks and races and subspecies, just like humans. Merpeople also seemed to be taller than humans, with seven feet appearing to not be an unusual height, at least for a Selkie. Harry encountered one in the lake near Hogwarts who was seven feet tall with a long green beard and a choker of shark fangs, carrying a spear. Merpeople were divided up into various sub-species or races, depending on where they live. The earliest merpeople lived in Greece, and were known as sirens. In modern times, merpeople living in warmer waters took on a more beautiful appearance, while those in colder waters, such as the Selkies of Scotland and the Merrows of Ireland, were less attractive.
Merpeople were a sapient species, and would qualify for full being status if they did not, as a race, reject the classification. Although their exact level of intelligence as compared to humans was unknown, they possessed many traits beyond those of mere animals, as they had a developed language, Mermish, and had even created music (which they were known, as a whole, to be fond of).
Merpeople were famous for their warlike tendencies and their tendency to drag people underwater to their deaths. As a result, encountering a colony of Merpeople can be intimidating if not life-threatening. All subspecies of Merpeople, including Merrows, Selkies, and sirens, were responsible for the deaths of many hypnotized sailors.
The merpeople dated back to ancient Greece, where they were first known as sirens. By the modern era, however, merpeople had spread worldwide.
The history of merpeople's relations with wizardkind, or at least the wizarding British government, were somewhat rocky. Chief Elfrida Clagg refused to accept merpeople as beings under her definition of the term as those who could "speak the human tongue". She thought Mermish to be inadequate as it could not be understood by creatures above water. Her decision upset both the merpeople and their allies the centaurs.
Though they were allowed being status under Minister Grogan Stump's revised 1811 definition of the term, they would eventually request to be classified as beasts once more, objecting to the fact that dark creatures such as Hags and Vampires also claimed that status.
Despite being considered beasts at the time, a delegation of merpeople were persuaded to attend the 1692 summit of the International Confederation of Wizards, where they would help decide what to do on the matter of hiding the existence of various magical creatures from Muggle comprehension.
At some point in the 1800s, Mirabella Plunkett, a witch, fell in love with a |merman living in Loch Lomond. When her family disapproved of their marriage, she Transfigured herself into a haddock and vanished.
During Dolores Umbridge's career in the Ministry, she suggested that merpeople to be rounded up and tagged, as her irrational revulsion to anything that have a part-human appearance. However, the ludicrousness of such an act caused it to never be put into effect.
Oddly enough, merpeople were not represented in the Fountain of Magical Brethren at the Ministry of Magic. This could not be simply because they have declined formal "being" status with the Ministry of Magic, because centaurs made a similar decision and were represented in the Fountain.
Merpeople's relationship with wizardkind was said to be an unstable one. This could have stemmed from a number of reasons, perhaps because certain people in the wizarding society looked down upon merpeople and saw them as inferior. That was a common occurrence in regards to sentient creatures that were not classified as human.
•Stories of mermaids and, less commonly, mermen exist in the folklore of various cultures worldwide. For sub-species of merpeople, J.K. Rowling was inspired by the various mermaids counterparts from ancient Greek myths and Celtic folk legends.
•In Homer's myth, the sirens were creatures capable of luring sailors with their sweet songs to death. In early Greek art, sirens were generally depicted as birds with large female heads, bird feathers, and scaly feet. However, the partly fish (mermaid) form characteristic became iconic in the medieval period, but actually, there have survived examples from the Classical period where the siren is depicted as mermaid-like.
•In the Orkney tradition, the Selkie is said to denote various seals larger than the grey seal; only these great seals are attributed the ability to change shape in humans and are called "Selkie folk". Something similar is stated in Shetland tradition, that the mermaids prefer to assume the shape of larger seals, referred to as Haaf-fish.
•The merrow-maiden is like the commonly stereotypical mermaid: half-human, a gorgeous woman from waist up, and fish-like waist down, her lower extremity "covered with greenish-tinted scales". She has green hair which she fondly grooms with her comb. She exhibits slight webbing between her fingers, a white and delicate film resembling "the skin between egg and shell". Merrows wear a special hat called a cohuleen druith, which enables them to dive beneath the waves. If they lose this cap, it is said that they will lose their power to return beneath the water.
•According to W.O.M.B.A.T., it is possible that freshwater merpeople are less warlike than saltwater merpeople.
•In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, the merpeople actually attack, whereas in the film and book they only confronted Harry when he tried to take more than his own hostage, but even then they only threatened to attack.
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1.Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 25 (The Egg and the Eye)
3.Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
4.Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
5.Merperson at 6.Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 26 (The Second Task)
7.Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 30 (The White Tomb)
8.https://www.wizardingworld.com/fact-file/creatures/merperson
Jan 12, 2016 · In Harry Potter, the merpeople living in the Black Lake are known as selkies, which are found in both Irish and Scottish folklore. However, during Harry’s bath in Goblet of Fire , he notices that the mermaid portrayed in the bathroom does not look like the rather frightful merpeople in the Lake.
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