Apparition for Hagrid?

[darqali]

No: HPFGUIDX 140534

> PJ answers:
> I do think Hagrid has his license to apparate.  If he's doing odd 
jobs for 
> Dumbledore and running errands for the school then he'd almost have 
to be 
> able to.   Granted he's not allowed to do magic but apparating 
isn't 
> considered magic in the WW, it's a popular form of transportation.
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When Hagrid and Harry leave the shack [in the early chapters of 
SS/PS] we don't see a second boat, and Hagrid says he "flew" there.  
Yet in OOTP Hagrid tells Umbridge he does not fly as no broom would 
hold him, and of course in SS/PS we don't see a broom, either.

I assumed, after reading OOTP where we learned about Thestrals, that 
Hagrid had come to that island .... "flown" .... aboard a Thestral.  
He may have left the station that way, too.  Only those who have 
wittnessed Death can see Thestrals, after all, and I perhaps if you 
are flying aboard one, you can't be seen either.

P.S.  We are never told how the Durselys got off that island, since 
Harry and Hagrid took the only boat.  I have had a lot of fun 
speculating about that.  Odd that Harry was not punished for leaving 
them stranded, though, and we are never told he was.


Darqali.