Why Can't Hagrid Do Magic?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 43922

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., eloiseherisson at a... wrote:
> Bboy-mn:
> > 
> > ..snip... Hagrid's alleged crime was not minor. Someone suggested
> > it was comparable to a misdemeanor  or gross misdemeanor, 
> > ...snip... Hagrid was accused of a felon  in connection with 
> > the death of a student.
>-end- bboy_mn - this section
> 
> Eloise:
> ...snip...
> b) English doesn't law in any case have a distinction between
>  misdemeanour  and felony
> ...snip...snip...snip...
> In other words, I think you read an implication that Hagrid's 
> 'crime' wasn't  serious which wasn't intended.
-end- Eloise - this section

bboy_mn relpies:
Yes, that is how I read it and most American would probably have
similar read, however, I was trying to discredit your post, I simply
wanted to re-enforce that this crime that resulted in a death, so it
was a very serious crime.

Broken wand and forbidden to use magic are very benevolent punishments
for a crime that resulted in death. 

> 
> Bboy-mn quoting Animagi_Raven:
> >..snip... there is the one glaring inconsistency in the events that
took place, and that is, the students turned to stone. ..snip...
> 
> LOON point. Although the students attacked in CoS are described as 
> 'petrified', I don't think they are turned to stone. 
-end- Eloise - this section

bboy_mn responds:
Well OK, not stone but stone-like. It was a figure of speech not an
absolute statement of fact. But you are correct, the didn't literally
turn to stone.
-end- bboy_mn this section

Eloise continues:
> 
> Animagi_Raven actually said:
> >The student death [singular] was probably blamed 
> >on the spider (but how did a spider turn someone to stone?)    
>
> [to which Eloise replied]
> Well, Myrtle was just *dead*, not turned to stone, ..snip...
> 
> Eloise

bboy_mn responds:
I'll let Animagi_Raven speak for himself, but I think the part above
in parenthesis is meant to be a separate statement.  More alone the
line of 'The student's death was probably blamed on the spider, but
how did a spider turn the other students into a stone-like state?' The
point being that spiders kill people but they aren't known to petrify
them, so how could the spider have done it?

Sorry, if I created a misunderstanding. 

bboy_mn