[HPforGrownups] Hagrid in Knockturn Alley

[Jeremy Davis]

No: HPFGUIDX 55440


>
> Jeremy Davis <jmd at jvf.co.uk> wrote:JKR has said in the past (dunno where
or when!!) that there are some
> significant happenings in COS. I'm just wondering what peoples views are
on
> the reason why Hagrid was in Knockturn Alley when Harry miss-dialed with
his
> floo power. Hagrid said he was looking for the "Flesh Eating Slug
> Repellant". Is he telling the whole truth?
>
> In response to your Hagrid question. I have always believed that Hagrid
wasn't telling the entire truth. There is no mention of any flesh eating
slugs anywhere in CoS except in that scene. But then again perhaps that was
Hagrid's theory on what was killing his roosters, but the way I see it the
roosters weren't dying until after the school year began. What else could he
have been looking for in such a dark magic infested place?

This may just be the film clouding my memory of the book, but when HHR were
discussing that fact that they thought Hagrid had opened the chamber, Hagrid
came over carrying some flesh eating sluig repellant. So he must have got it
from somewhere.

However in the film, Hagrid did sound very guilty of something when Harry
asked why he was in Knockturn Alley.

"Jeremy"