Hagrid's verisity (Was: Observations and Questions)

[prefectmarcus at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 25486

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., cynthiaanncoe at h... wrote:
> --- 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.
> >
> 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.
> 

What about when he complained to the trio in GoF that you can never 
trust foriegners?  Are we to assume that is the gospel truth too?

I believe in a chat somewhere, JKR said that Hagrid was just showing 
some house prejudice.

There is nobody in the whole book -- not Harry, not even Dumbledore --
 who can be trusted to tell the absolute truth.  Most of the good 
guys can be credited with tell the truth as they understand it, but 
nobody is omniscent.

Marcus