Hagrid Apparated?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 84784

Having typed message 84772 at about 7.45 this morning (despite its 
arrival time on HPFGU) two further thoughts ocurred to me since my 
brain shifted up a gear after breakfast.....

(1) I have pondered on this in the past but never got as far as 
raising the question. Hagrid pinches the boat to get Harry and 
himself back to the mainland. What about the Dursleys? How did they 
get back? Does Hagrid send the boat back? 

This sounds like one of those logic puzzles: "There were five people 
on an island - an orphaned boy, a half-giant gamekeeper and an 
unpleasant family of three. They had a boat which could carry three 
at once.....etc....etc." :-)

(2) This raises another matter about Hagrid. From the same area of PS:

"'Be grateful if yeh didn't mention that ter anyone at Hogwarts,' he 
said.'I'm - er - not supposed ter do magic, strictly speaking'. I was 
allowed ter do a bit ter follow yeh an' get yer letters to yer an' 
stuff - one of the reasons I was so keen ter take on the job- '" UK 
edition 48)

Presumably Dumbledore has some sort of arrangement with the illegal 
magic people to cover this.

But - are they monitoring Hagrid? In addition to getting to Harry, he 
lights a fire, gives Dudley a pig's tail and uses magic to speed the 
boat up on the return journey and sounds a bit shifty about the 
latter - "'If I was  ter - er -spedd things up a bit, would yer mind 
not mentioning it at Hogwarts?'" (Ditto p.51)

He seems more worried about the school finding out rather than 
Mafalda Hopkirk and Co. Interesting?

Geoff