[HPforGrownups] Question for Hagrid Disapprovers

[Jesta Hijinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 41104

>I have a question that I'd like to put those of you who disapprove of
>Hagrid. It's clear to me, a self-confessed Hagrid lover, that JKR loves
>Hagrid and clearly meant for him to be a sympathetic character and one of
>the good guys.  Do you believe that she believes Hagrid to be a dismal
>failure whose character flaws are so great that he is destined to cause
>Harry and/or Dumbledore great harm? Or do you believe that JKR meant to
>write a good guy, but failed miserably?
>
>Zoe
>
>aka
>
>Suzanne Chiles
>www.suzchiles.com
>
I don't think that she failed miserably.  :-)  I think JKR meant to write a 
complex character who perhaps has less than excellent judgment, and was 
playing up some darkly humorous elements of him (many Hagrid scenes I see as 
comic punctuation to other activities going on) which are very prone to have 
a light side and a dark side.

But that's what I like about a lot of JKR's characters:  many are not 
2-dimensional and there just as a textual device (one who *is*, as an 
example, is Rita Skeeter), but are complex personalities who have a lot of 
good in them but aren't perfect.

Just like real people with any kind of depth of character.  It's the trials 
in one's life that really bring out the dimensions.

Jesta/Felinia

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