Prejudices (was Malfoy's Choice of Date)

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 36521

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Jake Storm" <that1guy_hp at h...> wrote:
> >From: "marinafrants" <rusalka at i...>
> >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.
> 

Maybe Hagrid simply didn't know of them?