Hagrid a pawn and other ways to darken the plot

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 18946

Dave wrote:

I guess I keep trying to think of ways
> the series could "get darker", because after the Graveyard, I'm
> getting apprehensive about future "darkness"...
> 

I'm afraid the major way the books can get darker is that someone we 
love more than Cedric will die.  Maybe quite a few someones.

Also, even if no one really beloved like Ron turns to the Dark Side, 
any such betrayals would be really hard to read.  Imagine Seamus gone 
bad.  ::shudder::  So she could go that route too.

Re: Hagrid, Catherine wrote about his temper.  It's true, he does 
have a quick temper, but it seems to erupt only when someone insults 
Dumbledore.  (If he'd been in on the post-Goblet conversation and 
heard the ways Madame Maxime maligned AD--and Harry at the same time--
that relationship would've been over before it had started.)  He 
could do something stupid and cause a lot of trouble if he were led 
to believe he was defending Dumbledore.  I really can't see him 
choosing the giants over Hogwarts.

Amy Z
getting the shivers already, with 12 (?) months to go