Teaching thread: the forgotten teacher

polscphd2b polscphd2b at hotmail.com
Tue Jan 8 22:14:57 UTC 2002


No: HPFGUIDX 33040

Been following this "teaching" thread for the last couple of days, 
and I'm wondering why we haven't seen anything at all written about 
one teacher whose classes have been pretty thoroughly "covered" by 
Rowling:

Hagrid.

Yes, we tend to think of him as Harry, Hermione and Ron's friend who 
has a bit of a taste for nasty magical things with lots of teeth and 
claws, but we seem to have forgotten that, from PoA onward, he's also 
a Hogwarts faculty member...

My two bits on Hagrid as care of magical creatures teacher:

He certainly knows his subject matter, and he seems to know how to 
teach it, but the way in which he teaches it (i.e., his selection of 
critters) makes everyone universally unhappy (including Harry, 
Hermione and Ron, his best friends among the student body).

As far as Hagrid's house, we also haven't found out to date exactly 
which house he was expelled from, have we?

Don.








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