[HPforGrownups] Re: Fridwulfa/Hagrid's Parents

[Eric Oppen]

No: HPFGUIDX 45268

> >
> > 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

So do I.  I think it would be hysterically funny if Hagrid went off to the
giants, found his mum, and...

"So!  There you are!  After all these years you remember you have a mum!
You ungrateful child...never wrote a single letter to let me know you were
alive...they don't have owls in Britain, or what?"  And on and on and ON,
until she works off her spleen, grabs Hagrid, drags him into her cave, and
tells him that she's got the rest of his life planned out..."and I know this
very nice girl, she's half-giant just like you are, and _I want
grandchildren!_  And enough already with hanging around with those losers at
Hogwarts!  Hang around with losers and you'll be a loser too!"

Hagrid acquiring a mother and finding out that it isn't all beer and
skittles...that would be funny.