0561NOTHeraclesCerberus

0561NOTHeraclesCerberus_Rowling

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Apollodorus Bibl. 2.3.2

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, US edition (New York: Scholastic, 1998), 193.

Image: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (dir. C. Columbus, Warner Bros. 2001).

"How do you know about Fluffy?" [Hagrid] said.
"Fluffy?"
"Yeah — he's mine — bought him off a Greek chappie I met in a pub las' year — I lent him to Dumbldore to guard the —"

A close-up of Fluffy, the three-headed dog from Harry Potter, growling with bared teeth and intense eyes

"... Steve Kloves, the scriptwriter for PS/f, since he changed it to "Irish chappie" without catching the connection. To be fair, he did say that he had originally made it "Greek chappie" and that he didn't know how it got changed, but it does say "Irish" in the script itself, so it wasn't just that it was changed by Robbie Coltrane on the set and no one caught it. Which pub? The Hog's Head, probably, the same place Hagrid later gets the dragon egg. We don't suppose the Greek chappie had Fluffy with him in the pub..." hp-lexicon.org

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