[HPforGrownups] Re: Prejudices (was Malfoy's Choice of Date)

[Jake Storm]

No: HPFGUIDX 36439

>From: "marinafrants" <rusalka at ix.netcom.com>
>In fact, we know Hagrid was talking crap, since at the time he said
>this, Sirius Black, Gryffindor stud-muffin extraordinaire, was
>sitting in Azkaban with the whole wizarding world (including Hagrid)
>believing that he was Voldemort's best buddy.  And even after it
>turned out that Sirius is innocent, the guilty party was yet another
>Gryffindor.  So we *know* not all the wizards who went bad are
>Slytherins.

Yes, we know that he was discounting Black or eventually Pettigrew, but do 
we know the *why*? Was he simply applying house prejudice, being a 
Gryffindor himself before getting the boot? Or was it simply that Hagrid had 
no desire to tell Harry "Oh, yes, there was one non-Slytherin that went bad, 
your godfather, the one that betrayed your parents..." Seems a bit harsh if 
you ask me, to drop that on a young boy without much warning.

J

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