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== Overview ==
 
The '''''Lethifold''''' is one of the most dangerous (and weird) magical beasts in the wizarding world. itIt hunts at night, giving it an advantage over the (sleeping) wizardcreatures which it preys upon.
 
== Extended Description ==
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In appearance, a Lethifold is quite similar to a motile cloak, which travels by rippling itself across the surfaces it is lying on. It apparently has limited ability to fly by flapping itself through the air. Its chosen attack technique is to surround and smother its prey. The only spell known to stop a Lethifold is the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Expecto Patronum|Patronus]] charm,; whichthis was found outdiscovered by flaviusFlavius belby(seeBelby, below)possibly some relation to [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Marcus Belby|Marcus Belby]]. As quoted in ''Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'' by "Newt Scamander", Belby writes:
 
Near one o'clock in the morning, as I began at last to feel drowsy, I haerdheard a soft rustling
close by. Believing it to be nothing more than the leaves of the tree outside, I turned over
in bed, with my back to the window, and caught sight of what appeared to be a shapeless black
shadow sliding under my bedroom door. I lay motionless, trying sleepily to divine what was
cuasingcausing such a shadow in a room lit only by moonlight. Undoubtedly my stillnesstillness led the
lethifold to beleivebelieve that its potential victim was sleeping. To my horror, the shadow began to
creep up the bed, and I felt its slight weghtweight upon me. It resembled nothing so much as black
cape, the edges fluttering slightly as it slithered up the bed towordstowards me. ParalysedParalyzed with
fear, I felt its clammy touch upon my chin before I sat up bolt upright.
The thing attempted to smother me, sliding inexorably up my face, over my mouth and nostrils,
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Now dizzy as the thing sealed about my face, incapable of drawing breath, I concentrated
with all my might upon the Stupefying Charm and then - as that failed to subdue the creature,
thuoghthough blasting a hole in my bedroom door - upon the Impediment Hex, with likewise availed
me naught. StilStill StugglingStruggling madly, I rolled sideways and fell heavily to the floor wrapedentirely
entirely wrapedwrapped in the lethifold.
I knew I was about to lose consciousness completely as I suffocated. Desperately, I mustered
up my last resevereserve of energy. Pointing my wand away from myself into the deadly folds of the
creturecreature, summoning the memory of the day I had been voted president of the local gobstones
club, I preformedperformed the Patronus Charm
Almost at once I felt fresh air upon my face.
I looked up to see that deathly shadow being borne into the air upon the horns of my Patronus
It flew across the room and swiflyswiftly out of sight.
 
== Analysis ==
 
The name of this creature appears to be based on "lethe" (sleep) and the idea of enfolding; thus something which enfolds the sleeper.
 
If should be noted that in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Order of the Phoenix/Chapter 6|''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'']], it was noted that an old robe had tried to strangle [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ron Weasley|Ron]] while he was helping clean up [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Grimmauld Place|Headquarters]]. There has been speculation on several fan sites that the "cloak" may have in fact been a Lethifold. There is nothing in the book that would confirm this belief, the attacking object is never described as anything except a cloak.
 
The fact that the creature is vulnerable to a Patronus charm, perhaps along with its technique of suffocating its victims, leads us to believe there might be some relationship to the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Dementor|Dementor]]; perhaps, in time long past, Dementors were created out of Lethifolds.
 
== Questions ==