Observations and Questions

[wcdawson at optonline.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 25484


--- In HPforGrownups at y..., cynthiaanncoe at h... wrote:
> Welcome!  
> 
> I would say that when Hagrid talks about wizards who "went bad", 
he 
> means "became a death eater."  In PS/SS, Hagrid does not yet know 
> that Black was the Potters' secret keeper and allegedly betrayed 
> them.  Recall that in PoA, Hagrid learns this in a conversation 
with 
> Fudge/Rosemerta/McGonnagal, etc.

That may be true, but everyone "knew" that Black had murdered 
Pettigrew and all those Muggles.
Stan on the Knight Bus says that Black was "Very
close to You-Know-'Oo, they say."

> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Patrick Dawson <wcdawson at o...> wrote:
> >> 
> > SS/PS Ch.5
> > Hagrid says "There's not a single witch or wizard who went bad 
who 
> wasn't in
> > Slytherin".
> > Rephrased, that's "Every witch/wizard who became evil was in 
> Slytherin."
> > But we know that's simply not true. Whether you take it from 
> Hagrid's
> > perspective or from the truth, there's at least one evil wizard 
from
> > Gryffindor (Sirius Black or Peter Pettigrew). So why did Hagrid 
say 
> that?
> > I'm guessing that JKR didn't have the plot of Book 3 planned out 
at 
> this
> > point.
> >