[HPforGrownups] Re: Sins of Hagrid -- Subversive bigotry

[Whirdy at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 33979

In a message dated 1/23/02 8:41:48 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
theennead at attbi.com writes:


> I like to think that we're supposed to notice this unsavory
> tendency of Hagrid's, that this is Rowling's way of showing
> the subversive power of institutionalized bigotry.  Hagrid's
> a product of his culture, and his culture is not an 
> egalitarian one.  He *does* believe in egalitarianism, very
> strongly.  But when he isn't watching himself, the ugly
> underside of his own culture slips through the cracks, and
> he betrays himself.
> 
>     

All we have here is Hagrid displaying the very human failing (it is almost 
genetic) of stereotypical thinking and painting all with broad brush.  And I 
don't begrudge Hagrid's little slip with Dudley, if only to even the score 
for eleven years of Harry bashing.

BTW, given DD's first year at Smelting, Hagrid's warning was almost 
pearl-like.

whirdy


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