Carnivorous Snaplark

A dangerous plant that should have its own XXXXX classification based on its carnivorous eating patterns based on what it may feel like eating at the time. Its diet can range from being very simple to its wanting a gourmet feast consisting of deer of duck. Its opportunistic feeding during the winter is what makes it dangerous, as well as its tendency to acquire a taste for humans.

Features

Often mistaken for an overgrown version of the Australian Pitcher Plant, its pitchers are large, varying from about three feet tall to 20 feet tall. Its pitchers are stacked on top of each other and are often empty unless it has eaten.

Each pitcher has a flower growing in the bottom of it, which is responsible for the name of the plant, and the petals of the flower harden and are used for snapping at animals and then dragging them into the pitchers they live in. The flowers of all the pitchers can also twist together to attack larger prey.

It gives off a fruit-like smell that fools animals into thinking it's a fruit, but is recognizable for it's spicy leafy smell by the expert sniffer. It also hides among other bushy plants that grows berries or fruit in order to fool its prey.

Habitat and Behavior

Prefers a damp environment, and usually warm. If grown in the north it is barely active during the winter where it eats large meals after the New Moon and before the First Quarter, and is much more active in the spring and summer.

The Snaplark is a meat eater and its diet often consists of small animals and meals in the spring and summer, which is when it is also taken care of religiously by wizards because of the plant's calmer manner, but is much more aggressive in the winter and eats much larger animals such as humans, and should be left alone until the weather is warmer. Although, it has been known to eat wizards in the summer as well.

It Attacks with its flowers in with a quick twist of their petals that snap of the limbs of its prey or aims for a killing blow, and then snatches at the creature's remains and drags them into its various pitchers where it digests them with a type of bile or digestive juice. If the flowers are forced to go inside their pitcher without a meal then they will have a less acidic bile that sits and evaporates until the plant is ready to hunt with that flower again, which takes about 24 hours or so depending on the size of the pitcher and flower.

Regulation and Defense

Is Class-A non-tradeable good. Illegal to own or grow. Some wizards are allowed to do so without a permit however these creatures are often restricted to parks or reserves, and are rumored to grow in the Forbidden Forest.

Defending one's self against a Snaplark involves chasing its flower back into its pitchers, which is most effective when the plant combines all of its flowers and attacks at once. This is best done by having a large animal around or causing it to feel as though it will only get a meal if it uses all of its flowers at once.

After that a wizard just needs to outlast the plant until it is too cold to continue a hunt and retreats back into its pitchers to recover. It is harder to harm with normal spells.

Uses

• Used in the potion Draught of Melodious Covenant

• Its bile is also used in sharpening the wit of a person and causing them to notice patterns in every aspect of life to the point it may cause multiple and ridiculous conspiracy theories.

Related Links

Draught of Melodious Covenant, Hogwarts Musical

Appearances in Absit Omen

In January 2010, Elphick Snugglesworth was discovered growing carnivorous snaplark on his farm in Russia, after sending one to a famous Russian witch singer in revenge for her ignoring his advances for the past five years. The plant ate two of her employees who opened the fan letters. Evangeline Kuester and Johann Storm were despatched on January 28th to the hearing.