[HPforGrownups] Re: Why Can't Hagrid Do Magic?

[Jesta Hijinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 44194

>But if he really *was* deprived of his wand, and didn't live at Hogwarts 
>with
>a benevolent headmaster, I think he, or anyone else in that position would
>have a pretty hard time. I was talking about what the punishment was
>*supposed* to be, rather than the way it panned out for this particular
>individual, as I think you recognise. IMO, it amounts nearly to ostracism.
>
>Eloise
>
I totally agree.  Competent or not, he would have been raised in an 
environment where he learned to rely on magic to do things, and saw it 
relied on to do things.  Given that going out and joining the Muggle world 
is probably not a valid option (I wonder, have any other such "exiles" done 
that?  with any degree of success?), that would essentially be stranding 
someone at a rather more primitive level of existence - lighting fires, 
doing small cooking chores like Molly's Sauce-O-matic wand, etc. would 
instantly become great time sucks.

I wonder about small children, like little Kevin in GoF engorging the slug 
-t hat was reasonably harmless, if visually gross and hard on the poor slug, 
but what about three-year-olds throwing magical temper tantrums?

Felinia

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