[HPforGrownups] Re: Another sign of Hagrid's improvement as a teacher

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 41419

Darrin, who ought to be a defense attorney, wrote:

> Second-year: Hagrid starts with Skrewts, another
> challenging lesson, 
> gets outed by a newspaper reporter (with some nasty
> lies thrown in by 
> the Slytherins) and takes a day off.
> 
> He sees what the teacher did on his day off, goes
> with the lesson, 
> improves it, and later carries on in the same vein
> with the Nifflers.
> 
> You don't see the growth there?

I must say this is a creative spin.  Hagrid missed at
least two lessons, for starters (maybe more, but AFAWK
Care of Magical Creatures only meets once a week in
GF):

http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/  (then click on
timelines, click on day-by-day calendar of GF, go to
January)

For another thing, he didn't exactly just take a
couple of days off to blow off steam and get his head
together.  He showed every intention of quitting,
except that Dumbledore wouldn't accept his
resignation.

What I do see is that he really shaped up after that. 
He picked up on the unicorns lesson and improved it,
and continued in the cute fluffy beast vein even
though it isn't his personal preference.  Of course,
Nifflers do wreck houses, so that's one point in their
favor, even if they are terribly cuddly and lacking in
ferocity.

Amy Z

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