[HPforGrownups] Hagrid? Age?

[Angela Evans]

No: HPFGUIDX 48489

 
 srsiriusblack at aol.com wrote:
Ok. This is my first non-reply post... :::crossing fingers:::::

By all accounts I have found, Hagrid and Tom Riddle were in school at 
Hogwarts in the 1940s. 
This theory was fine and ducky until tonight. I started re-reading GoF, and I 
noticed that Hagrid says that he never thought he would live to see another 
Triwizard tournament.... it is also said in the book that there hasn't been 
one in a century.... 

This would make Hagrid and Voldie much older than we thought... wouldn't it?

A very nervous,
Snuffles>>

 

ME:  There are many "time" problems in HP (some may be resolved, some may not), but I do not think this is one of them.  You can interpret Hagrid's comment in two different ways.  I do not think that Hagrid has witnessed the last Triwizard Cup.  The Cup has been cancelled for decades and decades, and yet it is still a very famous event that wizards find very exciting, so it has not faded from the wizarding memory.  So, when Hagrid says that he never thought he would live to see another tournament, he is not neccessarily referring to the last tournament HE saw, but the last tournament that took place (before he was born).  

 

BUT, unless it is a Flint (which I doubt more and more), Molly Weasley's comment about "Ogg", completely throws off the timelines starting from at least when Hagrid was in school, until Molly and Arthur Weasley graduated.

 

ANGELA  



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