[HPforGrownups] Giants (was: Harry's 'fan' dying)

[Katze]

No: HPFGUIDX 32173

jennyandraul wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Katze <jdumas at k...> wrote:
> 
> > I'm beginning to think it's Hagrid also. I could see the Giants
> coming to the good side, and Dementors going to the bad side. Once
> this happens, I can see Hagrid joining to giants and dying in battle.>
> 
> Does anyone else think the giants are not going to be at all the way
> Ron described them in GoF?  First of all, we found out that werewolves
> as people can be good and gentle and that the house elf situation is
> quite complicated.  Second, JKR loves to surprise us.  Third, JKR
> often has a message behind her subplots; one of them seems to be that
> we shouldn't judge what we do not know.  Giants may have been
> persecuted for their size and went into hiding because they are
> peaceful and refuse to fight.  I'm becoming more and more convinced
> that the giants are not going to be stupid and violent.
> 

I hardly think that the Giants are stupid. I'm actually hoping to find
out otherwise. As for violent? I don't know. I'm not sure they are
inherently violent. I don't think we'll find that they refuse to fight,
but I don't think we'll find they are the instigators of war either. I
think they'll fight when necessary. When they aren't fighting, I see
them much like hobbits (living peacefully together) in the meadows.

-Katze