The long-term effects of that mooncalf renaissance are impossible to gauge from here.

Prince Bumpo, the heir to the throne, is a mooncalf who mistakes fairy tales for real life, speaks in Elizabethan periphrasis and murmurs to himself: “If only I were a white prince!”

“You’re a mooncalf,” she said.

He stared off into space with a dumb mooncalf look on his face that made you want to slap him.

Then there are those beasts that, due to cleverness or innate shyness, avoid contact with Muggles at all costs—for instance, the unicorn, the Mooncalf and the centaur.