I mean, even if it WERE mundane, the fact that it's a giant squid but can be occasionally seen/literally anyone is aware it even LIVES in the lake is already wild??? even if it were salt water, don't they live so far down they wouldn't come up unless you baited a line?

Makes you wonder how deep that lake really is! Maybe he likes the sun, or someone feeds it. Can you imagine what they have to stock to keep it fed?

I do not have an answer to this question, but I just wanted to say that this blog is everything and I appreciate that you are asking this question.

Actually, I do have a hypothesis: It's a species of squid that is yet undiscovered by Muggle scientists and is only known to Magizoologists. Which, then, raises its own questions. If as muggles, we are unaware of species that are only known to magical folks, are there species for which the opposite is true? Like, for example, maybe wizards have never heard of dolphins. I mean, it's possible. Food for thought XD

I find your idea interesting, however the magical creatures are hidden on purpose from mundane eyes but mundane creatures I order to be unknowable by magical people would have to be by definition magical in some way. Like an animal who can only be seen by nonmagical eyes. It almost hurts my reason to figure out how that happened. On the other hand I suppose that creatures created in labs might be ones that most magical folk would have little interest. At least until they were forced to take notice.