Why Wasn't Hagrid Cleared?

[erisedstraeh2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 42262

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "crana285" <crana at n...> wrote:
> I think Hagrid's name was cleared after 
> CoS - this is why he was allowed to become a teacher in PoA if I 
> remember rightly. Please tell me if I've got it wrong and it says 
> somewhere that he is still considered to have been responsible for 
> the first attacks!

Hi, Rosie (and thanks for the welcome) -

In my original post, I was referring to why Hagrid wasn't cleared 
after the *first* attacks, once Riddle had turned himself into 
Voldemort, but before the second attacks happened.  Grey Wolf 
(thanks, GW!) pointed out that Dumbledore makes it clear at the end 
of CoS that few people know that Voldemort was once called Tom 
Riddle, so that answers my initial question, but raises others 
(primarily, why would Dumbledore keep this a secret if it would have 
cleared Hagrid in the first place and kept Hagrid from going to 
Azkaban when the attacks resumed 50 years later?).  Grey Wolf offers 
some possible answers in his post (#42193).

You are absolutely correct - Hagrid's name was cleared at the end of 
CoS since it was then revealed that Riddle had framed Hagrid the 
first time.  But now it's no longer a secret that Voldemort was once 
called Tom Riddle - I wonder whether this will play into the plot in 
the future, since it appears clear that Dumbledore wanted it kept a 
secret previously?

Phyllis