User blog comment:Skeith9/Heroic Spirits Speculation/@comment-25114576-20140703180959/@comment-24762556-20140706033850

You still can't deny that in the case of Hippogriff, the animal itself is the NP.

Alternatively I don't think we're going by Apocrypha's rule here, I mean I don't think we even care about FSN base rule too much at this point(Skeith already pulled new classes), and why should we? Once again I have to mention that Nasu himself(and other Nasuverse writers) almost always changes the verse's rules around as they well damn please, which is like, literally every new title. So let the guy do what he want as long as it's not a dumb idea.