Hagrid & Filch

[rachelrenee1]

No: HPFGUIDX 32647

It seems to me that Hagrid really has gotten a raw deal here.  I 
mean, he can't do magic.  This is all because he was expelled and not 
a fully-qualified wizard.  But now, all these years later, his name 
is cleared.  He's even been to Azkaban for a few months because the 
school officials jump to the conclusion in CoS that he is the Heir of 
Slytherin and letting a monster loose again.  Don't you think that he 
deserves some kind of apology?

They don't let him use magic (I know he still does it on the sly 
every so often, but still) because he is not fully qualified.  
Shouldn't someone say, "Gee, gosh, we're awfully sorry, here, you can 
go back to school?"  Or maybe he can take a Kwikspell course to 
relearn the basics.  I am not really a Hagrid fan, but he's been a 
pretty good sport about being expelled unjustly.  (Yeah, yeah, 
raising an Acromantula in the school...)

Besides, would you not think that Dumbledore, (who knows that V=Tom 
Riddle, Jr.) get suspicious about him pinning the whole Heir of 
Slytherin debacle of 50 years ago onto Hagrid?  Is a gamekeeping job 
the best he can do to right that situation now?

And on this note of past schooling, do you think that Flich went to 
Hogwarts?  Does he have a wand?  Did he graduate?  As a squid, I 
would think he would not do too well, as most of the end-of-term 
exams seem to be practical exams, where one demonstrates the magic 
they have learned and how good they are at it.  I would think Filch 
would have failed horribly at that. So is he a fully-qualified 
wizard?  If so, how did he become one?  If not, how is it that he can 
try out the kwikspell course?  It seems to require a wand (as the 
first lesson is how to hold your wand.)  

--Rachel