Book 2 - Your thoughts - Clear Hagrid

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "MsTattersall" <cwood at t...> wrote:
> 
> > He hasn't graduated ... from Hogwarts. ...since he was accepted to
> > Hogwarts in the first place, he is magic. He just doesn't have the 
> >diploma. 
> > Naama

 
> Yes, of course Hagrid is magical,... but when he was expelled from 
> Hogwarts..., he was forbidden to do magic. ... he CAN do magic, ...
> (But) He doesn't need the Hogwarts diploma after 50 years of life 
> experience. 
> 
> My point was that since Harry has helped to reveal that it was Tom 
> Riddle and not Hagrid who opened the Chamber of Secrets ..., he 
> should be publicly vindicated and officially allowed to use magic. ...
> 
> Ms. Tattersall,
> a big fan of Hagrid

bboyminn:

I've addressed this issue before, so I'll try and keep to the short
version. You say that '...he shoud be publically vindicated...', and
therein lies the exact problem. It has become privately and generally
 known that Hagrid didn't do it, but there has been no official court
hearing to publicly clear his name.

I've been hoping the Dumbledore would instigate an official effort to
have Hagrid's status legally reversed since the end of CoS. Once the
court has made it a matter of public record, I'm more than convinced
that Hagrid's life experience and many years at Hogwarts more than
qualify him for full wizard status and a new wand. 

This is especially important as we proceed into the next books. The
war is in full swing now, and we need every person available operating
at peak efficiency. Hagrid certainly can't do that when he has to go
around pretending he doesn't have a wand.

It's high time they officially cleared Hagrid's name.

Steve/bboyminn