Prejudices (was Malfoy's Choice of Date)

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 36525

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "finwitch" <finwitch at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Jake Storm" <that1guy_hp at h...> wrote:

> > 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?

Well, he certainly didn't know about Pettigrew, since nobody knew at
the time (nobody outside Azkaban, anyhow); but I simply cannot believe
he didn't know about Black.  I don't care how slow on the uptake
Hagrid is supposed to be, when someone you know personally becomes
your society's most notorious mass murdered, you don't just fail to
notice.

Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com