Hagrid's parents

[random_monkey0_0]

No: HPFGUIDX 40750

 Katze wrote:
> 
> K> Apparently I ruffled some feathers with particular comments 
regarding Hagrid's 
> K> father. I certainly didn't mean any offense, and I'm sorry it was 
taken as such.
> 

Dave wrote:
> Why do you say that?  Did you get flamed?  Personally I thought it 
was
> a valid point... 

No, certain people were concerned that this thread was going in a 
less-than-mature direction. No flames, just a request to tone it 
down...

There's a similar thread currently on
> alt.fan.harry-potter, where it's been asked, why does Hagrid need to
> *ask* which side of the family Madam Maxime's giantness is on, 
since,
> imagination-staggering though male-human-mating-with-female-giant 
is,
> the reverse would apear to be -- um -- *really impossible* (both at
> conception and birth time)!

Well, either way would be difficult, really. They both sound like 
something out of an Austin Powers movie, don't they? Whether 
conception would be possible or not is debatable, but birth certainly 
would be a problem if the giantness was on the father's side. Which 
leads to another question: Do wizards have C-sections? 

I have many questions about magical healthcare. Madame Pomfrey's 
remedies seem to be of the "take this potion and call me in the 
morning" ilk, but what if, say, someone needed their appendix removed? 
Is there an appendix-dissolving potion or something? Can it be removed 
by something like apparation? And what about in cases like a 
C-section, where the thing not only needs to be removed, but needs to 
be intact and undamaged as well? 

There! That's an intelligent, well-thought-out post!

The Random Monkey, who is wondering why all of a sudden she never 
argues with Darrin anymore...