Hagrid as a pawn of V (was: Dead Harry)

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 18942

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Dave Hardenbrook <DaveH47 at m...> wrote:
> At 08:14 AM 5/17/01 -0700, Amber wrote:
> >Er, I know! Have dragons attack Hogwarts and flame it! Or Hagrid 
will
> >turn to the dark side, and lead the giants to Hogwarts to smash it!
> 
> I see a grim plausibility in V employing the Imperius curse against
> Hagrid: Some DE controls H who controls various horrible 
monsters... :O
> For all his size, I'm afraid he -- being as he was expelled in his 
3rd
> year -- wouldn't be very good at resisting the curse, and V has
> already discovered H's usefulness as a "fall guy".  ("It was his
> word against mine, Harry!")
> 
> 
> 
>                          -- Dave

Apart from the fact I hate this idea, because IMHO, Hagrid epitomises 
a lot of everything Dumbledore is striving for.  He has his 
background and history etc to be held against him, and of course many 
are prejudiced against him now they know he is half-giant, but he 
stands for so much which is good - he is one of the kindest, 
gentlest, warm-hearted, loyal and faithful people in the books.  I 
think Dumbledore recognised this from the start.  Voldemort, as Tom 
Riddle, is no fool - he was wise to the fact that Dumbledore was 
suspicious of him.  Remember also, that although Hagrid was used as 
fall guy with the previous headmaster etc. - Dumbledore obviously had 
enough faith, or belief in Hagrid's innocence/ lack of evil 
intention, to ensure he could stay on at Hogwarts in a different 
capacity.  

As you can see, I am a big fan of Hagrid, stoat sandwiches and all.  
I would hope that he wouldn't be put under the imperious curse.  For 
someone who values loyalty as much as him, throwing it off would 
surely help him on the way to madness, a la Crouch snr.  What is more 
likely, is that he yet again lets something important slip when he is 
under the influence of butterbeer, or scotch, or whatever it is he 
drinks.  I know that this has already been done, with the 
Fluffy/Norbert saga, but it just seems more realistic - afterall, 
people do make the same mistakes time and time again.  I do believe, 
though, that if Hagrid unwittingly betrayed either Harry or 
Dumbledore, he would find it extremely difficult to live with himself 
and come to terms with it, if ever.

Catherine