Hagrid in Slytherin???

[Demelza]

No: HPFGUIDX 19941

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Lumen" <lumen_dei at f...> wrote:
> 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
> Harry Potter's Philosopher's Shop  -- "Have Wand, Will Wave"
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> 

In one of the chats J. K. Rowling gave last autumn, she said that 
Hagrid was in Gryffindor.

Demelza