Fridwulfa/Hagrid's Parents

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 45267

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "kateydidnt2002" <kateydidnt2002 at y...> 
wrote:
 
> 
> 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?  
> 
 
I personally think, that Fridwulfa is really Hagrid's mum, because, 
like you said later in the post, Hagrid didn't denie it. However, I 
am not so sure if Fridwulfa earned the bad reputation she had. It is 
possible, that Rita invented Fridwulfa's "crimes". After all, she 
didn't try to eat Hagrid's father, or something like this, at least I 
don't think so. The only thing we know for sure about Hagrid's 
mother, apart from her giantness, is, that she abandoned her family, 
when Hagrid was three. We don't even know the reason. Maybe she just 
left her family, because she was frightened, that other wizard 
children would tease Hagrid, if they found out about Fridwulfa. So 
she went away for Hagrid's sake. This is at least possible. I hope we 
will see Fridwulfa in the next book and find out something about her 
and her deeds. 
Hickengruendler