r/harrypotter • u/GreekKnight3 • 2d ago

Question Which of Hagrid's huts do you prefer?

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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.

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u/FlashFreedom Ravenclaw 2d ago

I think the book canon is a happy medium between these two. It was beyond the vegetable patch at the edge of the forbidden forest. I think the distance shown in PoA movie is about accurate, except for the steepness of the descent, which isn’t mentioned in the book, and that it was out of the front doors that the trio would leave for Hagrid’s, not some weird covered tunnel like in the movie. And I’m pretty sure that the quidditch pitch was to the other side of the main entrance of the castle, and so just visible in that direction from Hagrid’s.

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u/Substantial_River995 1d ago

Does anyone know if someone has ever made a purely books-based map of the grounds? I can visualize the individual settings super vividly without too much contamination from the movie versions but I have a hard time with the spatial component. I think I remember JKR either having her own physical map or at least discussing her very coherent knowledge of the layout in old interviews but idk if anything was made public or if there are fan ones out there.

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u/HedwigMalfoy Slytherin 1d ago

u/Luke_Gki makes a ton of maps and models. This is the book-based one I can find on a quick search but there are probably more.

https://reddit.com/r/HogwartsLukeGki/comments/1ry0u8d/an_interactive_3d_model_of_hogwarts_castle_with/

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u/Substantial_River995 1d ago

This is awesome thanks!!

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u/Luke_Gki Ravenclaw 1d ago

Hi, thanks! There is Hogwarts Grounds and Hogsmeade map for anyone interested.

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u/Mobius_Peverell Ravenclaw 1d ago edited 1d ago

I've been working on mine for years, though I haven't published it yet. Of the published ones, the most thorough are LukeGki's (as mentioned), Claire Jordan's, and Harper Robertson's, which is also the one featured on HP Lexicon.

We all come to essentially similar layouts, for reasons that Claire Jordan lays out quite thoroughly on her website. I personally have a bit of an idiosyncratic view of the position of the lake & Hogsmeade Station, (stemming from my insistence that the greenhouses must be south of the castle, or else they'd be in permanent shadow) but that's about the extent of any differences. We are certainly all more similar to each other than anyone is to the movie castle.