Here at last is the origin story to a beloved Harry Potter character. Decades before the story of "The Boy Who Lived" comes the tale of Hagrid himself as a Hogwarts student. Filled with Britishisms and all the famed locations of the iconic series—platform 9 3/4, or Hogsmeade Station for isntance—the reader finds themsleves once again inside the towering Hogwarts compound. As Hagrid meets new friends, and enemies too, he soon realizes his time at Hogwarts will be nothing like he imagined.

— Simon Traub-Epstein, International Library of Young Authors

From the publisher: “Before he became the Gamekeeper at Hogwarts, before he was expelled for a crime he didn’t commit, Rubeus Hagrid was just a boy trying to find his place in a world that never seemed to have room for him. A powerful coming-of-age tale of resilience, friendship, and the courage to stand tall in the face of injustice, Loyal to the Last tells the story of one of Hogwarts’ most beloved figures in a way you’ve never experienced before.”