Harry Potter: Hagrid's Entire Existence Was Either a Lie or a Threat to All Wizards

Summary:

• The Ministry of Magic has always been hellbent on following the Statute of Secrecy so that the Muggles never learned about the Wizarding World.
• Rubeus Hagrid was specifically described as twice as tall and thrice as wide as an average human, not to mention his facial features and hairiness.
• Hagrid was a walking breach of the Statute of Secrecy according to Harry’s description of him, but he was somehow allowed to free-roam in London.

Look, we all love Rubeus Hagrid. He’s an extremely wholesome guy who would kill, die, and come back from the dead for the ones he cared about, and an absolute menace for his enemies. A great groundskeeper and a not-so-great professor, and all that. But realistically, there are only two ways Hagrid’s existence could be treated: either it was all a big lie, or his was a threat to the wizardkind as a whole.

Hagrid’s Description Was Distinctly Inhuman

It all starts with Hagrid’s description in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. When our favorite half-giant first arrives at the scene of crime (the Dursleys’ abduction of Harry, per say), his physical appearance sounds distinctly inhuman — but that’s only because he isn’t exactly human, which has been giving him trouble his entire life.

Hagrid’s described to be twice as tall as an average man with his eleven feet, six inches height, and three times as wide. Throw in his hairiness and we don’t know about you, but that’s a terrifying picture! Not so much when you get to know him, of course — but definitely for any Muggle or unaware wizard he would encounter.

Hagrid Was a Walking Statute of Secrecy Breach

The very fact that considering his physical appearance, Rubeus Hagrid was allowed to roam the streets of London sounds unbelievable. The Ministry of Magic has always been hellbent on following the International Statute of Secrecy that was supposed to hide both wizards and other magical beings from the Muggles forever.

But Hagrid himself was a walking and talking breach of the Statute!

We take it for granted since Hagrid has been in the story since day one, and while we remember that he’s big, we don’t often recall just how big he was. But for an outsider’s eye, it was a hairy demon twice as tall as any human and three times as wide, with a very low voice and rough facial features. That’s not how humans look regardless of their health conditions and whatnot!

If the Ministry was so keen on keeping the Muggles unaware, how was Hagrid even allowed outside of the Hogwarts’ grounds? Or, maybe, it was little Harry who was an unreliable narrator and severely exaggerated Hagrid’s image, being impressed, and then the kind half-giant’s nature was not so distinctly inhuman as we believed?