AUGHHHHHH!!! I have

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AUGHHHHHH!!! I have...

AUGHHHHHH!!! I have just come across a potterheads worst nightmare:

 

How did the Durslys get off of the Hut on the Rock if Hagrid and Harry took the boat?

 

Can anyone awnser this? It has been slowly torturing me to death!!! 

submitted by Nebula , age 1 Million , The Milky Way
(March 8, 2017 - 5:00 pm)

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Didn't they have a PHONE with them? Hint, hint...

submitted by Random Person, age 1-100, Somewhere
(March 8, 2017 - 10:40 pm)

Nope. They would not have had a phone. At the time this took place, I'm pretty sure cell phones weren't a thing, and even then , no WiFi.

submitted by Nebula , age 1 Million , The Milky Way
(March 9, 2017 - 1:48 am)

I suppose the fellow they rented the hut from came back and got them in his own boat.

submitted by Cockleburr
(March 9, 2017 - 10:46 am)

But...didnt the boat that Harry and Hagrid took belong to the guy?

submitted by Leanna
(March 9, 2017 - 3:08 pm)

Maybe they swam until some guy noticed a familly floating in the water! This is a difficult one!

 

MAgic. Duh.

submitted by General Waffleson, age -457, The Nexus of All Reality!
(March 9, 2017 - 8:16 pm)

True, but they left it at the dock on the mainland. The owner of the shack was on the mainland and could take the boat back to his hut, right?

submitted by Cockleburr
(March 9, 2017 - 11:39 pm)

THEY DIDN'T MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

submitted by Lightning!
(March 9, 2017 - 7:33 pm)

I thought Hagrid just brought his own boat, because he couldn't have apparated?

submitted by Quirker
(March 10, 2017 - 12:10 am)

That's another problem... Hagrid said that he "flew" but we know that:

1. He can't apparate (his wand is broken)

2. He can't fly a broomstick.

3. Cant' ride a thestral.

4. Could not have ridden the motorbike because he would have had to leave it there on the island. 

submitted by Nebula, age 1 Million, the Milky Way
(March 10, 2017 - 5:49 pm)

Maybe Hagrid was studying dark magic, and he learned how to do that floating/flying thing. Maybe. 

submitted by Rae
(March 11, 2017 - 1:16 pm)

Dumbledore or McGonagall probably saw they were having some trouble and relucantly used magic, (which they knew they would hate) to bring them to shore. 

submitted by Bibliophile
(March 11, 2017 - 3:40 pm)

My guess is that either they were rescued by some wizards who remembered they were stranded there, or they tore the house apart and turned it into a makeshift raft of their own.

submitted by Micearenice
(March 11, 2017 - 6:30 pm)

Oh my goodness! I never noticed that! Did they swim? Did a helicopter or something get them? Did anyone even know where they were...?

Well-spotted.

(helpmeanswerplease) 

submitted by Scylla
(March 11, 2017 - 11:57 pm)

McGongall probably had them stay there for a bit after how badly they treated Harry and then pretended to remember they were there when someone asked "Whatever happen to those awful muggles the potter boy was living with?" And then she probably brought them back with something magical, which she'd know they'd hate. I love McGonagall.

submitted by Bibliophile
(March 13, 2017 - 2:52 pm)

I'd guess that Hagrid's "flying" is apparating; his wand still works a bit. Or Dumbledore could've side-alonged Hagrid and left so he wouldn't intimidate Harry.

The Dursleys could have gotten off any number of ways. Maybe they built a fire and signaled shore, maybe the old man got help after a day or two, maybe they swam.I don't think it matters so much.

I think it's more important that Dumbledor picked up Riddle for Hogwarts when he was a kid and not Harry. Harry was very important in the wizardind world. Also, Dumbledore knew Harry's parents well. They were all in the Order of the Phoenix, and James trusted Dumbledore enough to lend him the cloak. They must have been close. So why? 

submitted by coyotedomino, age 14, the Wood, Omniverse
(May 3, 2017 - 9:29 pm)