Hagrid's Competence

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 34023

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Alexander <lav at t...> wrote:
 
>   Let's look at it from the point of view of... well...
> Dumbledore. Indeed, what results did the lesson have?
 
>   Hagrid has learnt a lot about his own flaws. He never
> again repeats his mistake during both PoA and GoF. In fact,
> he has maturated and learnt something about responsibility
> for others.>

Are you kidding?  Hagrid continues to make very similar mistakes in 
GoF, but before then, he wastes the rest of the school year for his 
third years in PoA because after the Buckbeak incident, Hagrid pretty 
much stops teaching altogether.  In GoF, he goes right back to the 
same old same old: he sets up his students with the Blast-Ended 
Skrewts, not knowing what the Skrewts are capable of, and possibly 
after having, uh, developed them illegally.  Hagrid was interested in 
the Skrewts, so he added them to the curriculum.  His students end up 
having to run away from them for fear of getting burned, dragged along 
the ground, or who knows what else.  Tsk, tsk, Hagrid.

--jenny from ravenclaw ***********************************