Why Can't Hagrid Be Readmitted to Hogwarts? (WAS: Why can't Hagrid do magic?)

[erisedstraeh2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 43853

Heather wrote:

> Why, exactly, is Hagrid not allowed to do magic? <snip> 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. 

Now me:

What I've always wondered is why Hagrid wasn't readmitted to Hogwarts 
to finish his schooling after his name was cleared.  In the US, 
people go back to school at all ages - even into their nineties. 
Hagrid is probably in his mid-sixties (assuming he was 13 at the time 
he was expelled, which was 50 years ago), and given a wizard's 
extended lifetime, he has plenty of years ahead in which to put a 
Hogwarts education to good use.  Is this a cultural difference, 
perhaps - is it not as readily accepted in the UK to go back to 
school in later life as it is in the US?

It was nice of Dumbledore to put Hagrid in a teaching position, but I 
think it would have been more meaningful to allow Hagrid to finish 
his schooling so he could have become a fully qualified wizard (and 
think of how much fun JKR could have with Hagrid in Harry's classes!).

~Phyllis