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

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 39492

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "greg_a126" <grega126 at a...> wrote:
 
>   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.  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.>

I think it is a good question to raise as to why Dumbledore trusted 
Hagrid in the first place, allowing him to stay on as groundskeeper.  
I wonder, though, if Hagrid's job was given to him more because 
Dumbledore didn't trust Tom Riddle, the student who set Hagrid up to 
get expelled in the first place.  Tom's diary brought Harry in CoS to 
a scene where Dumbledore, the Transfiguration Professor, seems quite 
suspicious of Tom wandering around the school alone at night, Head Boy 
or not. Perhaps Dumbledore took pity on Hagrid and saw him as 
harmless, not necessarily trustworthy, and wanted to give him the 
chance to stay at Hogwarts.  Dumbledore probably already knew that 
Hagrid had problems at home (dead beat giant mom and dad who died) and 
felt sorry.  He also probably knew that Hagrid, not the brightest star 
in the sky, was not responsible for opening the Chamber and couldn't 
prove that Tom Riddle (such a good student!  such a nice looking boy!) 
was responsible.  Giving the groundskeeper's job to Hagrid was 
Dumbledore's way of saying "I know you're innocent".

Just because Hagrid, years later, can be trusted by Dumbledore to get 
baby Harry safely to the Dursleys doesn't mean that *Hagrid* knows who 
to trust.  Or maybe it's just me - *I* don't trust Hagrid.  I have a 
bad feeling about his blind loyalty to Dumbledore - I just do.  Hagrid 
has made too many mistakes so far - big ones - for me to be 
comfortable with the choices he may make in the future.

--jenny from ravenclaw, pleased to have an ally in aldrea! 
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