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"Are you a wizard, or what?"
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- Hermione Granger: "That thing has a name?"
- Rubeus Hagrid: "Well of course he's got a name, he's mine! I bought him off an Irish feller I met down the pub last year! Then I lent him to Dumbledore to guard the-"
- Harry Potter: "Yes?"
- Rubeus Hagrid: "I shoudn't have said that."
- — Hagrid's mention of the Irish feller[src]
This unnamed Irish man met Rubeus Hagrid in the Leaky Cauldron in 1990. He sold Hagrid the three-headed dog he owned. Hagrid named this dog Fluffy, and, the following year, lent him to Albus Dumbledore, who used him to guard the Philosopher's Stone.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
- In the novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Hagrid states that he bought Fluffy from "a Greek man", rather than "an Irish feller,". Because of this change in the film, it loses J. K. Rowling's reference to Greek mythology, in which there was a three-head dog, Cerberus, that guarded the gates of Hades. However, Steve Kloves, the film's screenwriter, stated that he originally used "Greek chappie," but did not know how the line got changed.[2]
Appearances[]
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) (First mentioned) (Non-canonical mention)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) - Chapter 26 (Up to Something)
- ↑ Reader's Guide to Chapter 11 of Philosopher's Stone on The Harry Potter Lexicon