Hagrid in Azkaban

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Scott" <insanus_scottus at y...> wrote:

> Amy Z" wrote:
> Help!  A tip-of-the-tongue memory is driving me crazy.  I know I read 
> a sentence just the other day saying that Hagrid had been in Azkaban 
> twice.  I'm all-but-certain it's from one of the books (3 or 4, of 
> course).  Two questions:
> 
> 
> (1) Can you direct me to the source?  *Was* it in the books?
> 
> --Yes it is from the books,<snip> and I'm almost positive it's from 
> book III. 
> 
> Argh! Can anybody help?
>
	I think you maybe are a mite confused...In PoA ch.11, Hagrid 
explains why he doesn't just let Buckbeak escape:

"An'--an' I'm scared o' breakin' the law..." He looked up at them, 
tears leading down his face again. "I don' ever want ter go back ter 
Azkaban." 

	I think this is the passage you are referring to, but it doesn't 
imply that Hagrid has been in Azk. more than once. You may have been 
misled by an earlier passage in which Hagrid says visiting Hogsmeade is 
is like being back in Azkaban again.

	"Gotta walk past [the dementors] ev'ry time I want a drink in the 
the Three Broomsticks. 'S like bein' back in Azkaban--" 

As far as I can tell Hagrid has done only one stint in Azk. when he was 
sent there as a precaution in CoS.

Pippin