historical notes : Hagrid, Azkaban, Dumbledore, Ogg

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No: HPFGUIDX 18709

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at b...> wrote:
> 
> > > Arthur and Molly were at Hogwarts before Hagrid became 
> > > the groundskeeper. I believe she mentioned the old 
> > > groundskeeper in GoF.  
> > > 
> > 
> > Actually, a small nit to pick here: Molly mentioned the caretaker, 
> Apollyon
> > Pringle. I believe this gentleman occupies the same position as 
> >Argus Filch,
> 
> Molly mentions Pringle as Caretaker and also mentions Ogg as 
> groudskeeper. So Hagrid wasn't the groudskeeper when Molly was at 
> Hogwarts, although he may have been an assistant or something like 
> that. He certainly didn't take over as groundskeeper at age 13 with 
> no training.

Ah, a trained Hit-Wizard from the Nitpickers´ Canon Enforcement Squad 
has been here already...

Is it just me or didn´t Hagrid maybe go off to live with the giants 
for a while after he left Hogwarts?

I have no idea whether his father was still alive when he left (I 
remember him saying something like "good for him he didn´t see me 
kicked out of Hogwarts", but I may be wrong), but if he wasn´t, where 
did he go?

Dumbledore sending him to the giants at the end of GoF suggests that 
Hagrid knows where to find them and how to handle them. 

It would also explain his strange living habits, table manners etc. I 
also think JKR let us know suspiciously little about giants in 
FBAWTFT. 

But Hagrid was never really happy among the giants, so he realised he 
had to go back to the wizarding world some time, and was glad that 
Dumbledore offered him the gamekeeper´s job, since he wouldn´t have 
found anything else.