Fluffy's new home

[sunnyskywalker]

I was searching Accio-Quote for something else entirely when I stumbled across a reference to Fluffy's whereabouts after Year 1:

[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?

Comments

[chantaldormand]

...I don't think I'll ever stop being amazed at just how destructive to the local ecosystem Hagrid can be.

Well depending on when Fluffy was released into the wild he might have a run-in with Basilisk if there is in FF an entrance to the Chamber as I suspect. Heck, the poor gigantic danger noodle might have been the only thing stopping Hagrid from decimating the local ecosystem :/

I'm not sure Hagrid is responsible for Thestrals. Considering their special ability, they might have been gifted to Hogwarts when the Statute of Secrecy was introduced. A sneakily way to transport students to Hogwarts.
Although, I would expect Hogwarts to have stables. Hogwarts' Express is a relatively newly added feature.

But yeah, the Skrewts are probably rampaging around the forest unless some ministry official seized them in post TT confusion.

The only reason Norberta didn't land in the forest is that the trio forced Hagrid to give up her. I have no doubts Hogwarts would end up with its own forest trampling dragon if Hagrid was left on his own. I wonder how the ministry would react to this (。_。)

Students chucking in any unwanted pets- probably starting from chinchilla and ending on lion cubs- into Forbidden Forest is pretty much in line with the canon. After all, they kept tossing various... questionable items into the Room of Requirement. It seems wizards favour the "out of sight, out of mind" mindset.