Fridwulfa/Hagrid's Parents

[kateydidnt2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 45262

I just found this list and so I was looking through the archives to 
see what discussions are like here.  Anyway I ran across 
the "Hagrid's Parents" thread and it gave me a thought (and it may be 
a bit nitpicky).

How do we know that Fridwulfa is actually Hagrid's mum? 

Obviously, she had to be a giant, but are we going to take Rita 
Skeeter's word that it was this particular giant, who had a rather 
bad reputation?  

We all know how dedicated Rita is to telling the absolute truth to 
her readers.

I think it is most likely that Rita heard Hagrid confess he was half-
giant and then created her own reality from there because we don't 
hear directly from Hagrid that Fridwulfa is his mother.

However, Hagrid does not specifically deny this and so we might 
assume from that that Rita's assumption is true.

But at the same time Hagrid was probably too upset from the overall 
general effect of Rita's article that a smaller detail like a wrong 
name would not warrant correction.

Just my two knuts!
Kateydidnt who will stop now, before she tears her own argument apart 
and then rebuilds it upside down