Hagrid in Slytherin???

[rja.carnegie at excite.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 19997

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Demelza" <muggle-reader at a...> wrote:
> --- 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"
> > www.geocities.com/lumen_dei
> > 
> 
> In one of the chats J. K. Rowling gave last autumn, she said that 
> Hagrid was in Gryffindor.

He wouldn't have made a very good Slytherin, by the look of him
now - unless he's putting on a _very_ good act, and has an
extremely blinkered view of what's really important - e.g.,
raising dragons from egg versus protecting the Philosopher's
Stone.  He's firmly out-Slythered by Tom Riddle in CoS.
Finally, he just doesn't seem bright enough.  In terms of the
Slytherin ethos of being a sneaky, conniving, political snake,
he's a dead loss.

But then, I used to think Neville wasn't a very good Gryffindor.

Robert Carnegie
Meretricious!