Hagrid (was Chess Flint?)

[rja.carnegie at excite.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 19388

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., A B <old_wych at y...> wrote:
> 
> --- rja.carnegie at e... wrote:
> > 
> > (Before you ask, I say Hagrid isn't a giant, but a
> > very large human.  My theory is he was bitten by a
> > hyperactive acromantula - hmm, familiar origin?)
> > 
> Except he was already over-sized at age 6. He states
> in GoF that he was big enough then to put his dad up
> on a dresser if his dad annoyed him. That's too soon
> to have been bitten by Aragog (if that's who you meant
> by the hyperactive acromantula). Hagrid freely admits
> his mother was a giant once the Skeeter article comes
> out. In view of the prejudice against giants and
> half-giants, why would he lie about it? 

Ouch - I learn yet again that it is a capital error to
theorize without reading GOF.  (Pending birthday present,
days counted but that would be personal data.)

So I'm dodging spoilers as much as I can, but I do gather
I was wrong in expecting "a Neville without a hero" :-)

> Anne (whose old wych handle has to do with an in-joke
> on the figure skating boards she frequents... Who is
> Anne Bellegerante? You can answer off list. :))

Nothing except speculation as to what A B stands for
in the particular context, recklessly taking your name
as the indefinite article - and all because my computer
had crashed and I decided to blame the old_wych I was
writing to.  With hindsight, unwise.

Taking liberties with someone's name isn't kind, I appreciate,
but I meant only to amuse and not to cause offence - I hope
that none is taken.

Incidentally, this HP community seems to have taken lightly
the irruption in its midst of Mark _Weasley_, perhaps because
Hermione.Granger is a member already...?

Robert Carnegie
Glasgow, Scotland

"I read them all when I was seven and I hated them" - unnamed American
office worker on the Harry Potter books (www.dilbert.com, List of
Stupid Things Overheard)