[HPforGrownups]Why can't Hagrid do magic? (was Hagrid Flew?)

[Heather Gauen]

No: HPFGUIDX 43836

All right, this whole Hagrid thread started me
thinking (a scary new thing for me!:)). Why, exactly,
is Hagrid not allowed to do magic? Canon tells us that
he's "not supposed ter do magic, strictly speakin'"
and the reason is because of the CoS incident, but
this really doesn't make sense to me. I can understand
about things that require licenses, like apparition,
but why can't he do basic magic? 

I've heard plenty of speculation on Tom the innkeeper,
Madam Rosmerta, Stan Shunpike, etc., and what happens
to those who were weren't talented enough to even go
to Hogwarts. Don't they ever do magic? (When I can get
to my books, I'll look for canon examples myself.) It
seems like an awful waste of a gift to not allow
someone to use the magic they were born with,
especially considering that Hagrid was good enough to
go to Hogwarts in the first place. And even if the MoM
would have had to closely regulate him when he was
still a kid, he's in his sixties now. Old enough to
have learned a thing or two despite his lack of
schooling. 

I'm just looking at this in terms of the real world.
In the real world, you might have trouble getting a
good job without schooling, but you're still allowed
to do anything that educated people are. 

All right, I'm rambling a little now. Comments are
appreciated!

Heather, who thinks that keeping Hagrid from doing
magic after his innocence is revealed is appalling.






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