Hagrid in Slytherin???

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No: HPFGUIDX 19937

Two evenings ago my sisters and I were reading an exchange session between JK Rowling and children.  One of the children asked about Hagrid and which house he was in.  She gave one of those tantalizing answers of hers about oh, yes this is very important and we shall be learning that in a future book.  Immediately I thought of the scene from CoS when Riddle, shadowed by Harry, corners Hagrid with Agagog.  After waiting a full hour in the the doorway of the Potions classroom, thus in the dungeons, it sounds like they followed Hagrid even deeper into the dungeon section.  At least that is my reasoning from the direction in which Agagog took off when escaping...  It seems an indication that Hagrid was in Slytherin, since a student assigned to one of the other houses would have had a very hard time raising a giant spider in the dungeons.  And as Harry said of Mademe Maxime..."She's havea job hiding, wouldn't she?"

Slytherin does seem a logical place given that Hagrid is half-giant...thus in popular wizarding opinion, already half down the road to evil...  And there is a certain bitterness in his tone when he tells Harry in PhilSt  that it would be better to be assigned to Hufflepuff than to be in Slytherin.  

Any clues as to which house he might have been in?  My sister would love to prove me wrong...although I am far from proving my theory.  Oh, when will that book come!

Maria
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