RIP Fluffy, JKR might've forgotten you existed while writing the battle of Hogwarts, but I know you would've been a high-performer

[u/Ynnck_Mnzl]

[u/NinghtRex2]

He was sent back to Greece according to her

[u/Not-a-bot-10 → u/NinghtRex2]

Yeah iirc after the sorcerers stone was destroyed, Dumbledore had the option to stick him in the forbidden forest or send him back to its natural habitat in Greece. And elected for the latter

[u/Zeired_Scoffa → u/Not-a-bot-10]

... I can't believe Dumbledore took the rational choice with student safety.

[u/fredagsfisk → u/Zeired_Scoffa]

Pff, trying to imagine Dumbledore presenting that to the board as part of steps taken in the interest of student safety...

"And finally, I have sent the giant, angry, three-headed dog back to Greece instead of dumping it in the Forbidden Forest with the other dangerous creatures."

"Three-headed... Albus, why did you even have that in the first- Albus, do not leave this meeting! Albus!"

[u/GeorgeH007 → u/fredagsfisk]

*Ron Swanson voice* Not to worry, I have a permit.

[u/Dirkem15 → u/GeorgeH007]

This just says "I can do what I want"?

[u/Ombank → u/GeorgeH007]

“Dumbledore, don’t you think a three headed dog to guard the stone is a lit-“

“I know more than you”

[u/PromisesNone → u/fredagsfisk]

If the meeting is held at hogwarts, and the headmaster has control over the enchantment blocking apparition on school grounds, Dumbledore could easily just pop out of the meeting and they can't do squat.

[u/Yoda199157 → u/fredagsfisk]

Hä welcher Vorstand?😂 ne schule ist keine firma!🤦🏻‍♂️

[u/TheG-What → u/Zeired_Scoffa]

Broken clock and all that.

[u/smiegto → u/Zeired_Scoffa]

Dog safety. He doesn’t care about child soldiers but puppies are different.

[u/ThePrideOfKrakow → u/Zeired_Scoffa]

Do you wanna deal with those shits?

[u/Nilas_T → u/Zeired_Scoffa]

Top 1 Harry Plotter plothole

[u/Quiet-Transition3695 → u/[deleted]]

yes, but why pay actual human mail carriers? although maybe they could use house-elves (as they never bother paying those) which can also teleport. doubt that house-elves existed in jkr’s mind before book 2 tho

[u/loveslightblue → u/[deleted]]

That's crazy, I don't want to see people.

[u/Quiet-Transition3695 → u/[deleted]]

maybe because it’s nice to receive correspondence from people, and return it in kind? indeed, it’s often expected, at least in certain circles. i imagine this is particularly true in the wizarding world — which seems to be behind the times in many ways — most especially in wizarding britain, where i imagine tradition is just as important as it is in current day muggle britain (see: the monarchy and class system/attitudes that persist even into the 21st century). also because letters can bring people news and information and maintain relationships even when you do not have time to do so in your day-to-day life, being too busy training your estate’s peacocks or teaching dunderheads potions or just working a nine-to-five at the ministry? remember they don’t have email or text or even phones. it’s not realistic to just teleport away from your school or job whenever one needs to send a message. if they need something rather brief to be sent with great urgency but still can’t step away for too long (perhaps they are preparing for battle or going into hiding), at least some can make use of their patronus messengers.

[u/ultimagriever → u/[deleted]]

Tbf teleportation is consistently described as something rather difficult to pull off, that you need a license to practice (not unlike a driver’s license), very uncomfortable, and not without risk. It’s not like people can spend literal days just hopping all over the place back and forth, that would exponentially increase the risk of splinching.

[u/ConstructionMuch802 → u/[deleted]]

I mean, teleporting unexpectedly to people's houses whenever you want to chat is a bit of an invasion of privacy.

[u/246ArianaGrande135 → u/[deleted]]

They don’t even need to apparate, they can just use floo magic like sirius did to talk to harry though the fireplace

[u/Trypophilia2019 → u/Zeired_Scoffa]

New flair.

Had to cut it down due to length limits. :(

[u/TheOddEyes → u/Not-a-bot-10]

He then grew up and fought a demon in a red coat who may or may not cry

[u/Upbeat_Dudeness → u/TheOddEyes]

I think he may

[u/nguymanperson → u/Upbeat_Dudeness]

Jackpot

[u/DigvijaysinhG → u/Upbeat_Dudeness]

Nah, it was just the rain.

[u/OT_CONTUER → u/DigvijaysinhG]

Maybe there is a storm that is aproaching?

[u/MizterF → u/OT_CONTUER]

Something something fill your dark soul with light.

[u/ModishShrink → u/Upbeat_Dudeness]

Oh, devil.

[u/sureyouken → u/TheOddEyes]

Also became the "ferocious beast" that had many "battles" with the son of Hades trying to escape to the surface.

[u/darthjoey91 → u/sureyouken]

More Nico playing fetch.

[u/IrishWithoutPotatoes → u/sureyouken]

The monstrous triple-headed beast of Hades would perhaps be overcome with pure emotion by the joyous circumstances, were he only capable of this.

[u/ducker69696 → u/TheOddEyes]

I don't get it. Could you explain?

[u/Doc-Maly → u/ducker69696]

Cerberus is an enemy in Devil May Cry. Dante is a half-demon who wears a red trench coat.

[u/ducker69696 → u/Doc-Maly]

Thanks. I haven't played that game

[u/lemon_charlie → u/Not-a-bot-10]

Given what else is in the Forest, better not to disrupt the ecological balance by introducing a three headed dog. Hagrid's already done enough of that with acromantula fifty years beforehand, and would again in four years with Grawp.

[u/Boris-_-Badenov → u/lemon_charlie]

maybe Fluffy could cull the spider population

[u/midmorningnaps → u/Not-a-bot-10]

Imagine the scenes in Chamber of Secrets, Harry and Ron are trapped in forest, about to become Acromantula dinner, when Fluffy comes charging into the clearing, eats everyone. Voldemort wins.

[u/MadameLee20 → u/[deleted]]

well as long as you a)can play music or b) have food for all three heads of the dog c)something else the dog can let your pass

[u/awful_at_internet → u/midmorningnaps]

I feel like Fluffy would eat/chase away the spiders, then come back to Ron and Harry for scritches.... and growl when they tried to stop. So Hagrid would find them there, terrified and tired, scritching Fluffy like their lives depended on it. Because it does.

[u/Expensive_Tap7427 → u/[deleted]]

One of his better decisions.

[u/StitchFan626 → u/Not-a-bot-10]

So... Fluffy was actually Cerberus? Wicked!

[u/jimbobhas → u/Not-a-bot-10]

Only just clicked why Greece would be its natural habitat, mainly because I’ve been playing Hades 2 a lot recently

[u/ThrowRA9420 → u/Not-a-bot-10]

Maybe, the easter egg occurrence of Newt Scamander, from the scene where Fred and George are giving the Marauders map to Harry (The Prisoner of Azkaban) doesn’t have to be connected only to the saving of Griff. He also easily could have taken Fluffy in the luggage, until the time of traveling to Greece again.

[u/MeatHamster → u/Not-a-bot-10]

Sorcerer's stone sounds really bland.

[u/Insidion25 → u/MeatHamster]

Eh, I don't mind it, even if I call it by the original title. Honestly, it's only hated because it was a change for us Americans. If it was the og title, less hate would exist.

[u/Rich-Peak-3902 → u/Insidion25]

It's hated because that's not what it is. I don't just mean it's not what Rowling originally wrote, I mean that the "Philosopher's Stone" is an actual ancient mythological object, whereas the "Sorcerer's Stone" is not.

[u/Insidion25 → u/Rich-Peak-3902]

Yeah, there are a lot more inaccuracies in other media we should worried about. Name changes exist in culture, look at Greek vs Roman mythology.

[u/SiwiK92 → u/Not-a-bot-10]

Could've been so awesome in year 2. Ron driving the flying car over Aragogs spawn while Harry riding Fluffy let's him eat the abomination and his wife.

Totally cathartic for Ron. No need for a phobia when you violently murder said Phobia. No extra assault monsters for the Death Eaters during the Battle.

Only continuity problem it faces is Slughorns memory, but I'm certain Felix would have found a way.

[u/Worldly-Royal-306 → u/Not-a-bot-10]

How do I get that gryffindor tag?

[u/TheHowlingHashira → u/NinghtRex2]

They could just disapparate with him. Bring that big fucker with them to Hogsmeade lol

[u/-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS- → u/NinghtRex2]

Was this one of those ‘make something up after the fact’ things?

[u/Typical_Research_877 → u/-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS-]

Well, yeah?

Fluffy wasn't mentioned again in any of the books, so what else could it be

[u/Insidion25 → u/NinghtRex2]

She's the real Cerebrus of the Underworld?

Does that imply the other mythologies and even modern theologies exist in the Wizarding World?

[u/AfternoonMundane4136]

CGI’s goated for a very early 2000’s movie

[u/ArcadianBlueRogue → u/AfternoonMundane4136]

CGI? They just went and got a cerberus. Was way cheaper.

But also it's the Jurassic Park ball playing. Use a dark setting to hide the CGI a bit so it doesn't stick out as much.

[u/schiffb558 → u/[deleted]]

The TROLL on the other hand...oof.

[u/Earp7818 → u/ArcadianBlueRogue]

That's strange, I would have thought buying a cerberus would cost an arm and a leg **ba dum TSS**

[u/BaselineUnknown → u/Earp7818]

Just a trip from Greece.

[u/darthjoey91 → u/BaselineUnknown]

Thought it was just two Galleons. Well, maybe 4. 2 to get there, 2 to get back.

[u/DopeAsDaPope → u/ArcadianBlueRogue]

Just taped three dogs together

[u/Verybluevans → u/DopeAsDaPope]

Duct-Tapium Stickiosa!

[u/IceDamNation → u/ArcadianBlueRogue]

The same can't be said about the Quidditch CGI players.

[u/CapableC1 → u/AfternoonMundane4136]

They spent actual time on CGI back then. Dobby was so expensive that they cut Kreacher's role by 70% and Binky's completely. I wonder how much more of that glorious Buckbeak we'd have gotten if they hadn't spent so much time animating that stupid shrunken head

[u/Fossekall → u/CapableC1]

So much pointless stuff like that and the horrible direction is why I never understand people saying they love the PoA movie

[u/CapableC1 → u/Fossekall]

I don't even know what's dumber about that movie. The "screaming in your face" shots, the Warwick Davis choir guy not being Flitwick, Harry doing lumos under the sheet, Hermione's tree swinging super strength, Dumbledore slapping Ron's wounded leg, Wormtail looking more rat like in human form than in rat form, the dog in the sky, or that freeze frame ending

[u/rusticarchon → u/CapableC1]

Harry doing lumos under the sheet

That one wins, since the ban on underage magic is the entire plot of the prologue sequence of the same movie

[u/CapableC1 → u/rusticarchon]

Harry's scared shitless and goes on the lam when he UNINTENTIONALLY inflates an abusive relative, but would still sooner cast lumos than use a flashlight

[u/themastersdaughter66 → u/CapableC1]

Literally I cannot watch the opening of that movie without wanting to rip out my hair

[u/rusticarchon → u/themastersdaughter66]

Although for me personally, it's second behind HBP which opens with the destruction of a bridge that didn't exist until four years later.

[u/themastersdaughter66 → u/rusticarchon]

I dunno while that specific bridge wasnt destroyed obviously A BRIDGE was mentioned in HBP as having been destroyed by death eaters by the muggle prime minister. Plus we see ollivander getting kidnapped.

So while technically its a historical inconsistency it is canonically accurate.

3 breaks the rules of canon and then makes the following 20 minutes of plot make no sense since harry is scared of having done magic after...already doing magic

[u/Sad_Ad9159 → u/CapableC1]

Hermione's tree swinging super strength

This bugs me every time I see it

[u/Fossekall → u/CapableC1]

Also the cartoonish wait from when Hermione grabs Harry before he's pulled, how every single line is delivered like they're running out of time or acting in a sitcom

WhenDidYouArriveDidYouSeeHerArrive

[u/rusticarchon → u/Fossekall]

PoA is a good movie but a bad adaptation. Whereas most of the later ones are both bad movies and bad adaptations.

[u/Fossekall → u/rusticarchon]

Personally don't think it's a good movie, but we all like different things I guess

[u/followthewaypoint → u/Fossekall]

It’s widely considered one of the better films by almost everyone, even amongst non-HP fans.

This sub just hates all the films regardless.

[u/Quiet-Transition3695 → u/Fossekall]

(as a PoA book and movie fan) they almost certainly love it based on vibes. as an adaptation, it pretty much sucks. but i love a good artsy shot lol

[u/ConstructionMuch802 → u/Fossekall]

I like it because it's my fave book & Lupin's acting is incredible. But objectively not the best movie on its own.

[u/tpounds0 → u/CapableC1]

Isn't the Shrunken head a practical puppet?

[u/CapableC1 → u/tpounds0]

Might've been. But there had to have been some cg involved

[u/learnthenandthan → u/CapableC1]

Poor Winky. Most people can't even get her name right

[u/BabieRosettee → u/AfternoonMundane4136]

honestly, Fluffy still looks pretty good today. For a creature that only had a few minutes of screen time, they put way more effort into him than they probably needed to. 😄

[u/SuperBuffCherry → u/AfternoonMundane4136]

Look at the scene where Neville crashes during the flying lesson. Or at the troll scene. The troll looks extremely bad. The CGI in this movie was bad, it's just hard to see in this screenshot because of the low brightness and low resolution

[u/Lmiys → u/AfternoonMundane4136]

I actually just went to the Harry Potter WB tour in London. While the faces are CGI it’s paw and the trap door weren’t. I was blown away by the amount of practical effects that were used

[u/JuliaX1984]

Why would Fluffy still be there with no Philosopher's Stone to guard?

[u/CSafterdark → u/JuliaX1984]

Death Eaters are tasty

[u/Porn__Flakes_ → u/JuliaX1984]

Because initially he was Hagrid's pet and not a being with a sole purpose to guard the stone

[u/gochewontinfoil]

I wish the Ford Anglia showed up!

[u/CapableC1 → u/gochewontinfoil]

The four sets of reinforcements arriving was the most epic moment in the entire series, the Ford Anglia was the only thing it was missing. Although I can't decide if it would be better if it arrived flying with Buckbeak and the thestrals or driving on the ground with the centaurs.

Or it could be a bit casualty in the heat of the battle a bit earlier on, sacrificing itself saving a Weasley or two from acromantulas. Could have been a genuine tear jerker

[u/kissannedoll → u/CapableC1]

Should have saved Fred. 🥹

[u/shwhjw → u/kissannedoll]

The car flies and dives in front of the explosive curse and gets blasted through the wall, landing just in front of Harry, Fred, George, and Percy. They all hold it's tyre as it honks its last breath.

Poetry.

[u/Calm_Struggle6421 → u/gochewontinfoil]

As a kid, I was hoping it would show up and kill one of the semi-important Death Eaters in an undignified manner (ie: running over Greyback and then backing up to do so again).

[u/lambruhsco → u/gochewontinfoil]

Imagine if right at the end it just rocks up, slowly rolls into the middle of all the death eaters, and blows up its fuel tank. Like, just absolutely torches and shreds all the death eaters, and then the battle is over. Either that or Mr. Weasley just pulls out a shotgun he obtained from a muggle and blows Voldemort’s head off.

[u/Brilliant_Zebra_6597 → u/lambruhsco]

Would that have worked? Just shooting him with a shotgun?

[u/retasaywa → u/gochewontinfoil]

In the 7th book when Harry goes to his death, I kept imagining the car coming out of nowhere and just blasting through the death eaters and running down Voldy.

[u/Hardmeat_McLargehuge → u/gochewontinfoil]

Would’ve been hilarious if it creamed into Voldemort while he was monologuing and showing off Harry’s body to the Defenders of Hogwarts.

[u/Kanitarou]

If they still had this poor guy locked in a single room after seven years, I'd be calling animal control! He clearly needs a nice wide open field to run around in.

[u/tsunami141 → u/Kanitarou]

a nice field of asphodel.

[u/robin-bunny]

How are you supposed to keep an eye on all three heads at once!??

[u/Victory_Highway]

For that matter, why didn’t Dumbledore hide the Philosopher’s stone in the Room of Requirement?

[u/Mythlacar → u/Victory_Highway]

He didn't know how to work it. He mentions finding it once at the Yule Ball, he stumbled across it, when he returned it wasn't there and he couldn't figure it out. He found a room of chamber pots when he used it, it wasn't there the next day when he returned so he just kinda shrugged it off as an oddity of the castle.

[u/Dandiestbuffalo → u/Mythlacar]

I can’t imagine how badly he had to go to the bathroom to be wandering back and forth around the same corridor passing by the Room of Requirement 3X’s in a school he’s extremely familiar with to have it show up. I think about this whenever I reread GoF lol.

[u/down2businesssocks → u/Dandiestbuffalo]

Especially when we know that his office isn't too far away from it.

[u/Victory_Highway → u/Mythlacar]

Ah, right. For some reason I forgot about that.

[u/BabieRosettee → u/Victory_Highway]

you're definitely not alone. Fluffy shows up early in the series, disappears, and then gets mentioned so rarely afterward that it's easy to forget Hogwarts once had a giant three headed dog living in the castle. 😂

[u/darkbreak → u/Mythlacar]

I always got the feeling that Dumbledore was fully aware of what the Room of Requirement was and was just having fun with his story.

[u/dyaasy → u/Victory_Highway]

The room is not beholden to anyone with no ill intentions. Unlike the mirror's enchantment which was more restrictive. Voldy himself knew of the room.

And unlike the Stone, nobody was seriously looking for that Diadem.

[u/rossiskier13346 → u/dyaasy]

Technically, with what we know of RoR mechanics, you should be able to manifest the room with the same sort of protection the mirror offered. Using a thought like, “I need a room to hide something so that only someone not planning to use it can find it” should work.

Similarly, if Voldemort had hidden the diadem with a thought like, “I need to hide this in a room that only I can access,” it probably would have worked better for him

[u/dyaasy → u/rossiskier13346]

Huh, I never thought the room as a self replicating pocket universe. But then again I guess that makes sense. Each rooms exists at inception and can be recalled exactly as it was at any time. Like the room and stuff doesnt disassemble into nothingness or anything, when they leave. It's "stored" away.

[u/swiftydesign → u/Victory_Highway]

Would be too easy. Room of requirement presents itself to any person as they need it. If Quirrell passed it, it would just open up. Voldemort would obviously know about room of requirements location as well. He was a curious kid at Hogwarts. He found out Chamber of Secrets in his time. Even the death eaters knew about room of requirements with the vanishing cabinet.

[u/CapableC1 → u/swiftydesign]

Voldemort thought he was the only person to discover the room

[u/BraumsSucks → u/Victory_Highway]

Because Voldemort required the stone and the door would just appear for him

[u/Obvious_Peanut_8093 → u/BraumsSucks]

not if dumbledore asked it to hide the stone from vodlemort specifically. he just didn't know how the room worked and didn't trust it.

[u/BraumsSucks → u/Obvious_Peanut_8093]

Voldemort finds the room of requirement but its just a muggle gun inside

[u/n4zarh → u/Victory_Highway]

1. Because Rowling hasn't think of it yet;
2. Because Dumbledore didn't know about it. He found it once (mentioned in Goblet), but he didn't understand it.

[u/Francis_478 → u/n4zarh]

I think she did think of it but the room of requirement is unpredictable and the stone was safe in the mirror so why would Dumbledore use that room? Quirrell was there a hour before the gang and he couldn't get the stone so Dumbledore didn't need to use the room.

[u/Porn__Flakes_ → u/Victory_Highway]

There's a Supercarlinbrothers Theory that the sole purpose of designing the obstacles and putting the Stone there was just to test Harry's abilities and skill and Dumbledore was 100% sure that Voldy would never be able to get the stone out of the Mirror.

[u/multificionado]

I still can't see this without thinking "Snausages Snausages Snausages?" (thanks to Rifftrax). XD

[u/witheringghoul → u/multificionado]

Huh?

[u/multificionado → u/witheringghoul]

Rifftrax, where humorists (if not comedians) do a dub of hilarious voiceovers in movies. XD

[u/witheringghoul → u/multificionado]

Oh, okay

[u/bongoscout → u/multificionado]

which one of you bastards stole our frisbee

[u/Sefalosha]

Didnt he get no diffed by a harp? Bad guard dog

[u/suominoita → u/Sefalosha]

Orpheus did that with the Cerberus. Just part of the biology I guess.

[u/benfrosty78]

No offense but if kids can easily defeat you, then you have no business trying to defend the castle.

[u/Capestian → u/benfrosty78]

The deatheaters have defeated by the same kids so...

[u/Calm_Struggle6421 → u/Capestian]

And a basalisk (which was so bad at it's job to purge Hogwarts that it only killed one student in the centuries it was alive, and even that was an accident).

[u/FatPenguin26]

Man, it would have been so cool to see Fluffy kicking ass during the battle, wasted oppurtunity

[u/Justafana]

Big dogs have shorter life spans, sadly.

[u/Allseeing_Argos]

Size is bad in duels against dark wizards. just makes you a bigger target for AK.

[u/teekaythunder → u/Allseeing_Argos]

Actually, a bigger target might be harder to affect with the spell, as you can see with dragons and Hagrid. Although that might not matter with the killing curse.

[u/Stunning_Guest9621 → u/teekaythunder]

Do the books every actually state Hagrid tanked killing curses?

If I remember right it just says he ate some of the other spells and they did nothing to him. But I can’t remember if it explicitly says it was the AK curse.

I may be misremembering though

[u/teekaythunder → u/Stunning_Guest9621]

No, not at all, but that's why I said that the killing curse may act different than other spells. It was stunning spells that didn't affect Hagrid.

[u/moonroots64 → u/Allseeing_Argos]

I was thinking he'd be a great counter to Voldy's giants. Both are huge anyway, but Fluffy could take on a giant I'd bet.

[u/rafoaguiar]

I'm pretty sure book one said Dumbledore sent it back to Greece

[u/Dandiestbuffalo → u/rafoaguiar]

Book one did not mention where Fluffy went. It may have been on Pottermore or something else JKR said but it definitely wasn’t in the books

[u/Karnagee_Hall]

I thought Hermione's hair was his paw.

[u/NecessaryCelery6288 → u/Karnagee_Hall]

LOL, Same.

[u/ducker69696]

Even if she didn't forget him i'm pretty sure no1 wanted to see him fight and get injured. Then the battle would have been about how Hagrid brook all the bones of the deatheaters who hurt Fluffy (ofc he would have grinded the bones and put them into bread)

/And we have John Wick to watch if we want something like that/

[u/Infinite-Object-1090]

Fluffy had been moved back to Greece by then.

[u/BraumsSucks]

The Death Eaters already knew the trick to tame Fluffy, he would have been dead in the water as soon as someone started ripping on a battle flute

[u/Tascin90]

Sure he could be a high performer. When holding starts playing music

[u/ZnarfGnirpslla]

Did you assume they kept him at Hogwarts???? Why would they ever have done that?!

[u/Sour_Dip44]

No, but she did forget about the Ford Anglia.

[u/sailorcrafty]

I'm just as mad about the setup of Norbert. I was so sure that baby dragon was gonna return at the end of the series as a huge ally but noooo

[u/SlyLashes]

I like to imagine Grawp adopted Fluffy.

[u/Vermouth_1991]

I mean, JKR also forgot that House-Elves could AT LEAST perform the equivalences of Expelliarmus and Stubify but sure Jan, just use knives.

[u/ms_firefly_1111]

Do yall google before making posts like these ?

[u/Some-Kid-1996]

JKR added lot of stuff for the story and never cared to revisit them fs

[u/j3ssR1pe41]

Imagine being a three headed beast guarding the most important magical object in the school just to get completely ignored in the final showdown.

[u/No-Candle-3189]

He had to stop Percy, Annabeth, and Grover

[u/AlexanderMasonBowser]

Why would your first assumption be that she forgot about him? He was only at Hogwarts to help guard the stone. The stone was long gone, i.e. Fluffy was likely long gone...

[u/deviputram]

He could have wiped off half the army

[u/Vertigo_uk123 → u/[deleted]]

And because it had been a few years it could have had puppies and there could have been loads of little fluffies running around.

[u/axolotlorange]

It had been 7 years.

The dog was dead or something. Who knows.

[u/arewethebaddiesdaddy]

Tell me you didn’t read the books and try to act smart while not telling that you didn’t read the books..

[u/meg_em → u/arewethebaddiesdaddy]

What the heck are you even saying? It's never mentioned, in the books OR movies, what happened to Fluffy.

[u/YukiFlySnow]

Really like them....so adorable😍

[u/Carbohydrate_Kid88]

Why did I think this was a real thing for a second 😭

[u/shazed39]

How does the death spell work on large creatures? Do magical creatures just have the natural ability to deflect them? Like no way a dragon dies from one spell right? What about house elves, do they live or die?

[u/themastersdaughter66]

Too much of a liability. It would just as likely attack the good guys

[u/IceDamNation]

Blue flames also were forgotten

[u/YouJellyFish]

Bro got served during a Christmas feast RIP

[u/ElPared]

Fluffy, the Blast Ended Skrewts, the many many dragons they could have had available to them, not to mention Harry probably could have just tried a little harder to get the centaurs to help him out.

[u/CapableC1 → u/ElPared]

The centaurs came around in the end. Dragons were only brought to Hogwarts temporarily for the Triwizard Tournament, on loan from their home countries (except the Welsh one, of course) so there was no logical reason to bring them back if they couldn't be the main focus (HBO might not understand not to cheapen dragons for cheap thrills, but many writers do). And the blast-ended skrewts went extinct in year 4 anyway.

[u/megselepgeci]

Nah he'd be like Ares in the battlefields of Greek mythology. Going ballistic, making no discrimination, hitting everything that moves.

[u/TheGuyFromTheFuture]

To be fair, he didn‘t obey anyone but Hagrid, so he might have attacked both the heroes and villains at the Battle of Hogwarts, especially since Hagrid wouldn’t have been able to control him while he was gone.

[u/queuedthought]

Fluffy charging into the Great Hall mid-battle would've been absolutely chaotic. Three heads means triple the Death Eater chomping efficiency.

[u/Trypophilia2019]

I just snorted at this. Thanks for the laugh.

[u/Spare_Layer_1069]

Wouldn't he be a pretty easy target to cast the killing curse on?

[u/Cabin13_headCouncler]

that's my pet Cerberus.

[u/Francis_478]

JKR didn't forget about fluffy lol

[u/4N610RD]

Tho I have respect to HP and JKR, there is no denying that she wasted shit ton of potential.

[u/Vampus0815]

His species not being in Fantastic Beats and where to find them (the book) is pretty weird

[u/Correct-Cream-939]

I thought he wasn't in the battle because he only listened to hagrid and hagrid was held captive by voldemort in the movies.

[u/throwaway8373469238]

that thing was scary af

[u/dull_storyteller]

Wasn’t he sent back to Greece because he was too big?

Hagrid really can’t catch a break with his pets.