User blog:ChazmanianDevil/Sweet Mother It's a Fire Crab

Okay this is a small nitpick with the Harry Potter series I've had since sixth grade, when I read Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them for the first time. In Prizoner of Azkaban when Ron and Harry are looking for rat medicine in the Menagerie among other creatures they see a large tortoise with a jeweled shell.

Now some background info. A fire crab, as detailed in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, is an endangered species of magical tortoise that live only on Fiji and are hunted for their jeweled shells. Most importantly, they shoot fire out of their posterior. (It's real, read the book!)

Now let's look at this again. This seconds rate pet shop, has a fire crab? For open thing, they're extremely rare and valuable so everyone would be crowding around the thing and they never would have been able to acquire it in the first place. Secondly, trade in them is practically illegal. Thirdly, it shoots fire out of it's butt! It's in a wooden shop! How is this not a safety concern!

Yeah I know, it sounds stupid, but it's been bugging me.