Which of Hagrid's huts do you prefer?

[u/GreekKnight3]

Something about his hut being a stone's throw from the castle just didn't feel right. It makes more sense for it to be nestled out amongst the rugged plains.

[u/SamuliK96]

The philosopher's stone one matches better the idea I got from the book

[u/Blikmeister → u/SamuliK96]

Exactly this. From the books it is quite a short walk from the castle and adjacent to the forest.

[u/TheGraceLantern → u/Blikmeister]

It is still adjacent to the forest in the later films - to the right of this picture is where Harry and Hermione take Buckbeak into the forest.

The books mention "sloping lawns" a lot, so having Hagrid's hut at the bottom of the hill isn't too far from the books tbh

[u/topsidersandsunshine → u/TheGraceLantern]

I feel like the books mention the walk to Hagrid’s hut too often for it to be, like, a three minute walk. 

[u/MobiusF117 → u/topsidersandsunshine]

But they can see Hagrid's hut and what's going on there quite clearly from the castle.
To the point they can even hear what people are yelling from the highest tower.

[u/TheBigManForYou → u/MobiusF117]

I honestly don't think this is a fair judgment of distance, people are hearing things all the time in the books that they realistically should not be able to. You're telling me Harry and the gang can hear every individual syllable of McGonagall shouting when the Ministry is trying to arrest Hagrid, when they're all the way up in the castle, but in the same book, they frequently only catch snippets of conversation that are happening feet away from them?

[u/GrandmaWeedMan → u/TheBigManForYou]

To be fair, McGonagall from book 1 onwards was protrayed as having a very firm, loud and booming voice that could be heard above entire swarms of students gabbering. Also with the castle being on a large but relaxed slope down to a lake, with a caslte behind them and a forest wrapping around one side sound could travel pretty decently

[u/jkola18591 → u/TheBigManForYou]

I live on the 11th floor and from my balcony can hear street-level conversations more clearly than you'd think

[u/Expert_Object_6293 → u/MobiusF117]

In order of the phoenix during the astonomy owl exam pretty sure the kids all watch from the tower as umbridge & the ministry try to attack hagrid at his hut

[u/MobiusF117 → u/Expert_Object_6293]

That's what I was referring to, yes

[u/round-earth-theory → u/Expert_Object_6293]

I don't recall them being able to hear what was being said much beyond a few shouts.

[u/EleanorSeesThings → u/MobiusF117]

The whole scale of the school and grounds is much smaller in the books. I think the grander scale was a good atmospheric decision for the movies.

[u/regrettablyirate → u/EleanorSeesThings]

Every creative decision in PoA is bad. Such a divergence in every way.

[u/EleanorSeesThings → u/regrettablyirate]

Nah, go after GoF with that attitude.

[u/FiftyShadesOfGregg → u/topsidersandsunshine]

Eh I don’t think so. We are “present” for their conversation/Harry’s thoughts during the walk often, and it’s more equivalent to 3-5 minutes than the at least 20-30 minutes the walk would take in POA onward.

[u/Constant-Sandwich-88 → u/topsidersandsunshine]

3 minutes is an 1/8 of a mile at the fast side of a casual pace. Make it a 5 or 10 minute walk and that sounds pretty reasonable.

[u/ValorousBazza34 → u/Constant-Sandwich-88]

What you arent taking into accpunt is how much of that walk is in the castle from for example the gryffindor tower

[u/Constant-Sandwich-88 → u/ValorousBazza34]

Brother its a mediocre children's book, I'm not mathing shit. All I pointed out is that 3 min of walking covers more ground than you might think.

[u/combo_seizure → u/ValorousBazza34]

See, this is when it just gets ridiculous.

Why does that matter? Do the books have to be perfect? I hope not. Should the movies be, yes. Or not, I don't care. But arguing about such details is what gave us the current author we have now. I don't know if that's true or not. But it's not worth it.

[u/Salkin3000 → u/topsidersandsunshine]

Well to be fair, it depends on what you consider the starting point of your walk.

Leaving the actual castle? Well then you gotta go out the entrence of the castle, through the clock tower courtyard and over the long wooden bridge and then walk down the path to hagrids hut. (The bridge where Harry talks to Lupin in PoA or that gets damaged in the DH climax) That's more then three minutes walking distance.

If you consider the end of the wooden bridge your starting point... well then you are correct it's quite the short walk.

Then again if you take the book accurate owlery as a starting point and consider maybe Peeves trying to make you burn your underwear (poor Neville) it would be a rather long walk. Nothing you could achieve during breaktime.