Harry Potter: The One Hagrid Question That Never Gets Answered

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J and Ben Carlin

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🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Go to http://betterhelp.com/super for 10% off your first month. From the very first pages of Harry Potter, Hagrid is full of mysteries — his size, his umbrella, his expulsion… but there’s one moment that has quietly confused readers for decades. When Hagrid retrieves Harry from the Hut on the Rock, he claims he “flew” there. But… how? In this video, we break down every possible way Hagrid could have reached the island, using only canon evidence from across all seven books. We examine flying motorbikes, broomsticks, Thestrals, magic carpets, Floo Powder, dragons, and even some of the wizarding world’s rarest magical creatures.. This is the one Hagrid question that never gets answered on the page… until now! Special Thanks to @jakob_henkel for this video suggestion! 🦆☕ Ducks go in cups. #SuperCarlinBrothers #HarryPotter Written by: J & Ben Carlin Edited by: Isybelle Christley 🎟️ Through the Griffin Door LIVE Tour — Southwest 2025 https://supercarlinbrothers.com/events/ Southwest Tour Dates: 3/07: Denver, CO - Chapter 33: Fight and Flight 3/09: Salt Lake City, UT - Chapter 34: The Dept of Mysteries 3/11: Las Vegas, NV - Chapter 35: Beyond the Veil 3/12: Phoenix, AZ- Chapter 36: The Only One He Ever Feared 3/14: Houston, TX - Chapter 37: The Lost Prophecy 3/15: Dallas, TX - Chapter 38: The Second War Begins

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0:00.0	Hey brother, Hagrid, big man with even bigger mysteries.
0:03.8	I mean, basically from the moment you meet Hagrid, the questions start.
0:08.2	Who are you?
0:09.2	Why is he so big?
0:10.5	Why is he flying on a motorbike if this Dumbledore guy here was able to just like, I don't
0:15.6	know, appear?
0:16.6	Being me has its privileges.
0:18.8	If the Potters were attacked the night before and it's the following night now,
0:23.6	what were you doing with Harry for the whole day in between?
0:27.6	And if you had the whole day, why are you late getting here?
0:30.6	Little type felt asleep just as we were flying over Bristol.
0:33.6	Also, you mentioned who you got the bike from, um, young, serious black, which, you know what,
0:38.5	never mind. That's probably just a throwaway name. We don't need to worry about that one.
0:45.9	Mind you, this is all after we've been introduced to Hagrid for like, I don't know, three
0:50.5	paragraphs. Like, that is a lot of mystery for one guy right out of the gate.
0:56.0	And frankly, he's not done.
0:58.0	By the end of just chapter 5, we've got a whole new slew of questions.
1:02.0	Like, what's the deal with the pink umbrella?
1:04.0	And why is he carrying around live mice in his pockets?
1:08.0	And how did he get expelled from Hogwarts?
1:10.0	They'll have your one for this, Hagrid.
1:11.7	How can he be so bad at spelling that he doesn't know how to spell Voldemort,
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