Fluffy's new home
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deathtocapslockI was searching Accio-Quote for something else entirely when I stumbled across a reference to Fluffy's whereabouts after Year 1:
Exactly how many dangerous things has Hogwarts released into the Forbidden Forest over the years? We know about Aragog and Mosag. The Ford Anglia might count, and Grawp. Now there's Fluffy. But that wouldn't be enough to make a trend. So...what else?
Is that where the Blast-Ended Skrewts ended up after the Triwizard Tournament? Were the Thestrals another of these "dangerous" releases? Have Hagrid and maybe Kettleburn spent fifty years tossing new creatures into the ecosystem? (We're probably lucky Norberta didn't end up there.) Do students regularly raise dangerous pets and abandon them in the Forest once they get too big?
No wonder the centaurs don't trust humans...
Also, we know Hagrid introduced Mosag so Aragog wouldn't be lonely. Did he sneak a Mrs. Fluffy while we weren't looking?
[Y]ou tend to find at Hogwarts that, erm, anything that's dangerous ends up in the forest ... so that's where Fluffy was released, so he's roaming round in the forest ...
Exactly how many dangerous things has Hogwarts released into the Forbidden Forest over the years? We know about Aragog and Mosag. The Ford Anglia might count, and Grawp. Now there's Fluffy. But that wouldn't be enough to make a trend. So...what else?
Is that where the Blast-Ended Skrewts ended up after the Triwizard Tournament? Were the Thestrals another of these "dangerous" releases? Have Hagrid and maybe Kettleburn spent fifty years tossing new creatures into the ecosystem? (We're probably lucky Norberta didn't end up there.) Do students regularly raise dangerous pets and abandon them in the Forest once they get too big?
No wonder the centaurs don't trust humans...
Also, we know Hagrid introduced Mosag so Aragog wouldn't be lonely. Did he sneak a Mrs. Fluffy while we weren't looking?
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Date: 2022-01-20 12:43 am (UTC)Or how his "Ooo magical creatures are misunderstood" stance is taken so surface-level by so many fans, who wouldn't hesitate to think of how Hagrid and Newt would be friends. Newt would in fact be HORRIFIED at the lack of self-awareness that Hagrid has as a magical creatures handler Remember, that much as Newt espouses "Humans are the most dangerous animal," he knows that some of the creatures inside his TARDIS-Suitcase are dangerous -- When Jacob got bitten by that thing, Newt blithely told him about how the venom would kill him before administering the antidote*. Hagrid would totally want to set an Obscurus free because freedom, too.
*Honestly, Hagrid's lack of self-awareness is like that scene in "Airplane!" where that guy is being absolutely mauled by the big dog, and the lady of the house is like "Oh stahp it!--Isn't he an adorable scalawag?"