Fluffy

> They were looking straight into the eyes of a monstrous dog, a dog that filled the whole space between ceiling and floor. It had three heads. Three pairs of rolling, mad eyes; three noses, twitching and quivering in their direction; three drooling mouths, saliva hanging in slippery ropes from yellowish fangs. It was standing quite still, all six eyes staring at them, and Harry knew that the only reason they weren't already dead was that their sudden appearance had taken it by surprise, but it was quickly getting over that, there was no mistaking what those thunderous growls meant.
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> Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger encountering Fluffy, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone

**Fluffy** was a gigantic, monstrous male ***three-headed dog*** who was once cared for by Rubeus Hagrid. Fluffy's greatest weakness was the inability to resist falling asleep to the sound of music.Template:Pet-Character

## Biography

### Guarding the Philosopher's Stone

Template:Dialogue a-b-c-bRubeus Hagrid originally purchased Fluffy from a "Greek chappie" at The Leaky Cauldron. Hagrid loaned Fluffy to the headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, to aid in guarding the Philosopher's Stone, during the 1991–1992 school year. In addition, as further insurance against intruders, the door leading to the room Fluffy was in was locked magically.

Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, first encountered Fluffy. When Hermione tried to stop Harry and Ron from sneaking out later that night, she found herself locked out of the Gryffindor Tower, as the ***Fat Lady*** had left sometime earlier, and ended up going along with them. Neville Longbottom, who had forgotten the password to the common room and was sleeping on the floor outside, joined them as well. When they arrived at the Trophy Room, the intended site of the duel, Malfoy was nowhere to be found. To avoid being caught by Argus Filch, they ran away and ended up in the forbidden area on the third floor, staring at the massive three-headed dog. Despite being furious about having broken countless school rules, Hermione had noticed that the dog was standing on a trap door, and guarding something. They later deduced, from hints about Nicolas Flamel dropped unintentionally by Hagrid, that this "something" was the Philosopher's Stone.

   Later that year, Hagrid happily told the trio that he had a won a dragon egg in a card game at the Hog's Head. Thinking that it was too much of a coincidence that, as Hagrid had always dreamed of owning a dragon, someone just happened to show up at the local pub with a dragon egg, the trio questioned Hagrid about the supposed dragon dealer. Upon finding out that Hagrid had never even seen the man's face, as he wore a hood, yet Hagrid had drunkenly told him how to get past Fluffy, they came to the conclusion that the hooded man must have been Severus Snape, when it was really Quirinus Quirrell. Before Hagrid told Quirrell, though he didn't know it was Quirrell, Hagrid and Dumbledore were the only ones who knew how to get past Fluffy.
As that meant the stone was no longer safe, they decided to go after Snape themselves, to use in lulling Fluffy to sleep. Arriving at the room, they noticed an enchanted harp at a sleeping Fluffy's feet, and believed that Professor Snape was already on his way to retrieving the stone. Fluffy soon awoke, as the enchantment on the harp wore off, and it stopped playing. As Harry played the flute, which almost immediately put Fluffy back to sleep, Ron crept over to the trap door and opened it, but was unable to see anything below. After they called up to Hermione that it was safe, she stopped playing and jumped down the trap door just in time, as Fluffy woke up as soon as the music stopped.

## Personality and traits

Fluffy was generally vicious, fierce, and extremely strong, though he possibly acted somewhat more docile around certain people, like Rubeus Hagrid, who was able to get Fluffy into the third floor corridor. One known way to calm Fluffy was to play music, which made him fall asleep. ***Three-headed dogs*** were very rare creatures, and it is unknown if, like the ***Runespoor***, each head served a different purpose.

## Behind the scenes

* Three-headed dogs are prominent in Greek and Roman mythology and are also known as Template:Wplinks, the chief of all being Template:Wplink, Guardian to the Underworld. However, in the film adaptation of *Harry-Potter and-the Sorcerer's S Stone (film)*, Hagrid says he bought Fluffy from "an Irish feller" rather than "a Greek chappie"; losing the original reference.
* In the film adaptation, Neville was not present when the trio first met Fluffy.

## Appearances

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* *Harry-Potter and-the Sorcerer's S Stone* (film) (First Entire Appearance)

## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 *Harry-Potter and-the Sorcerer's S Stone* (film), Chapter 16
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *Harry-Potter and-the Sorcerer's S Stone* (film), Chapter 11
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *Harry-Potter and-the Sorcerer's S Stone* (film), Chapter 9
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 *Harry-Potter and-the Sorcerer's S Stone* (film), Chapter 14