Maybe Hagrid is the LOYAL person(who just has some major [confidence?] problems)

[aldrea279]

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greg_a126 wrote:

> My question is why now?  Why would Hagrid "grow up" now?  This is 
> not the first wizarding war that Hagrid will have lived through. We 
> know that Hagrid took on his gamekeeping duties fifty years ago, 
> which means that he lived through Voldemort's first reign of 
> terror.  (Coincidentally, I've always wondered if Hagrid knows 
> Voldemort's real name as Tom Riddle & the person who got him kicked 
> out of school, but that's neither here nor there.)   
> So if he lived through Voldemort's first reign of terror & is now  
> approaching 70 years of age (getting kicked out of school 50 years 
> ago) both imply to me that he's done all the "growing up" that he's 
> going to do. 

But what if he's more involved than he was last time?  Yeah, you have 
a point, he did live through Voldemort's first reign, but(as far as I 
can tell) he was living at Hogwarts the entire time.  And according 
to all that we've heard, Voldemort never dared to attack Hogwarts.  
Remember, Hogwarts is probably the safest place in the world, 
according to Hagrid(IIRC). But I think that's starting to change, as 
have/are alot of things.  Also, I think Hagrid has -alot- of growing 
up to do(emotionally, that is). Just because he's that old doesn't 
mean he's done all the growing he has to do.  I think alot of things 
could change and cause him to grow over the last few books- starting 
a relationship with Madame Maxime, confronting his giantess mother, 
Dumbledore's death, Voldemort outrightly attacking Hogwarts, etc.  

<snips all the good points about Hagrid and the Stone, because she 
agrees with them all>
 
> Second, Dumbledore trusted Hagrid to bring the Boy-Who-Lived to 
> Hogwarts.  Over the course of 24 hours Harry Potter went from being 
> just a nother wizard child who happened to have powerful parents, 
to 
> the most famous wizarding boy in the world & who does Dumbledore 
> trust to bring Harry Potter to start his new life?  Hagrid.  You 
> don't just go from one day being just the groundskeeper, to being 
> trusted with the safety of the most important wizard in the world.  
> We know little to nothing about what happened during the first 
war.  

  He has been the Hogwarts gamekeeper for over 50 years, but as you 
said so yourself- he doesn't go from being kicked out of Hogwarts to 
being entrusted with not only bringing Harry to his new life at 
Hogwarts, but also retrieving the boy from the wreckage of his 
parents' house.  So that leads me to believe that perhaps Hagrid 
wasn't always as involved as he is now with everything- I think he 
had to work for what little respect he's gotten.  There also seems to 
be a sort of core group of the staff that usually knows alot about 
what's going on:  Snape, Hagrid, McGonagall, and sometimes Flitwick.  
And I think Hagrid really prides himself on being part of that core 
group.  Hagrid is a wonderful character, he's extremely friendly, 
nice, considerate, he has a huge heart and I love him for it....but 
all the same, I think he might go through a few changes before the 
war is over with.



> All we know is the death of the few people that Hagrid mentioned 
the 
> first time he met Harry in the PS, and nearly everyone assumes that 
> the Order of the Pheonix is charged with protecting the wizarding 
> world against Voldemort.  Beyond that, we're pretty well clueless.  
> It's quite possible that Hagrid did something to prove his loyalty 
> to Dumbledore in the midsts of a wizarding war before Harry was 
even 
> a twinkle in his parents eyes.  
 
It is quite possible, lots of things are quite possible in that time 
period because we know next to nothing about it.  But as I stated 
before, I think this second time round with Voldemort will perhaps be 
worse.  Voldemort will probably be more desperate, and also on the 
road of revenge.

~Aldrea