"Flying" Hagrid and "Home Stretch" reread

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No: HPFGUIDX 164641


> bboyminn wrote:
> >
> > Note that there are other occassions when Hagrid travels
> > by magic. For example, after Hagrid gave Harry his ticket
> > to return to the Dursleys, Harry peeks out the train
> > window, blinks, and Hagrid is gone. Where did he go in
> > the blink of an eye? The only reasonable explanations
> > are he either apparated or took a Portkey. We see that
> > Portkeys are very tightly controlled, so I have trouble
> > with it being that. On the other hand, Dumbledore seems
> > pretty fast and loose with his Portkeys so maybe on
> > occassion he creates them for Hagrid.
> >
>
> Carol responds:
> While I agree that Hagrid can Apparate, as the disappearance from
> Platform 9 3/4 indicates (and as he must have done to get to
Godric's
> Hollow. as well), I don't think he would have told Harry that he
flew
> unless he had actually done so.

Hi: I hardly ever post, so I hope I did the snippage thing
correctly.  I agree that it's not exactly clear how Hagrid got to
the hut-on-the-rock, but it seems illogical to me that he apparated.
Hagrid was expelled from Hogwarts in his third year.  Apparition
lessons don't begin until 5th(?) year, and it's a very difficult
thing to learn.  Hagrid doesn't strike me as being a particularly
gifted wizard (he couldn't even turn Dudley into a pig), so unless
he got individual training from Dumbledore or something, I have a
hard time buying the idea that he could have learned to apparate. I
could be underestimating him, of course! He's had a long time since
his expulsion to learn to apparate; it's just that there doesn't
seem to be any evidence from canon (that I can remember as I sit in
my office without my books) to suggest that Hagrid has been learning
advanced magic.

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