Hagrid's Hut

Location from Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

A small wooden house at the edge of the Forbidden Forest where Rubeus Hagrid lives with his boarhound Fang, surrounded by a pumpkin patch and the smell of rock cakes.

Hagrid's hut is the warmest place in Hogwarts that isn't technically part of the castle. The door is always open to Harry, Ron, and Hermione, and to any student who needs a cup of tea and someone who won't judge them. The rock cakes are inedible. The tea is strong enough to strip varnish. The treacle fudge will cement your teeth together. None of this matters because Hagrid himself is the draw — enormous, kind, incapable of seeing danger in anything with fangs, and utterly loyal to Dumbledore and to the trio who became his first real friends. The hut has housed a Norwegian Ridgeback, a baby Hippogriff, Blast-Ended Skrewts, and at least one Acromantula. It was burned down during the Battle of Hogwarts and rebuilt.

Appearance

A one-room wooden cabin with a smoking chimney, oversized for its single occupant. A crossbow and galoshes stand by the front door. An enormous pumpkin patch grows beside it, the pumpkins swelling to the size of garden sheds before Halloween. Fang the boarhound slobbers on visitors. Inside: a massive bed, a fireplace with a copper kettle always on the boil, hams and pheasants hanging from the ceiling, and whatever dangerous creature Hagrid is secretly raising under the table.

Also known as: Hagrid's Hut, Hagrid's hut, Hagrid's cabin, the hut

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