BANG BANG, Hagrid at the Door Sorcerer’s Stone Ch 3 & 4

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone, The Letters from No One (3) & The Keeper of the Keys (4).

Vernon spends a full chapter having a nervous breakdown when Hogwarts letters fill every inch of his perfectly normal suburban home, yet Harry can't get ahold of a single one. The only logical choice is to drag his family to the middle of some random body of water with nothing but a couple bags of chips and a shotgun. This is when Hagrid makes a grand re-entrance into our story. We learn how Harry really lost his parents, that he's a wizard and instead of taking his anger out on Vernon and/or Petunia for keeping this information from Harry all his life. Or perhaps abusing him for the past 10 years. Hagrid instead gives Dudley a pig tail, and not the hairstyle.

In the discussion we'll take a closer look at Hagrid as a character, theorize how this all would have gone down if Harry had just read the first letter he received in the hallway and as usual, call out my favorite foreshadow moments and give away meaningless awards.

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