Hagrid's parents

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 40963

> KSnidget WROTE:
 > This kind of thing intrigued me from the start...how did Hagrid's 
parents 
> get together originally? I mean, if giants are so ostracised in 
human 
> society, surely they wouldn't really get the chance to date, etc.. 
get 
> married. Can you imagine the costernation at the church? I kind of 
have an 
> interesting theory- Fridwulfa and Hagrid Snr(for want of a better 
> name)-Father is an auror and battles against the Giants. He gets  
Fridwulfa 
> on her own but, due to his innate kindness, doesn't kill her.  She 
> recognises his generosity and prevents him being killed by the 
rest of the 
> Giants. The rest is history. (or should I say canon?) 

Did anyone else read this the same way I did? Apparently not... Oh 
well, I'm going to be very nasty.

I very much like the idea that Hagrid Sr. was an auror, and I am sure 
that due to his innate kindness, he didn't kill Fridwulfa. But why is 
everyone so sure that the relationship was... errr.. consensual?

Because... well... it has every mark of a very common fairytale 
relationship that certainly isn't.

It's a very familiar pattern. A man somehow comes in contact with a 
woman of another folk: mermaids, fairies etc. and takes something of 
that woman's (a comb, a cap etc.) that binds her to him. He hides the 
object, and she is forced to stay with him. However, after several 
years, she finds the object while he is away, puts in back on, and 
walks out on him and the children she bore him. Pick up any book of 
British fairy-tales and legends, and you'll find hundreds of 
variations on the story. 

If I am right, and this is what is going on, it would explain why 
Fridwulfa suddenly walked out on her son. Hagrid, of course, has come 
to believe his culture's stance that "they're not very maternal." 
After all, don't many of the old tales end with the narrator making 
exactly that conclusion about the non-human woman?

Eileen