Albus & Hagrid (was; Fleur and Wands (was: 50 Questions..)

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 55243

Jaimee makes an excellent point;

>>Dumbledore says in CoS that the Heads of the House are responsible for the 
punishments of their students...So, who was most likely the Head of Hagrid's 
house at this time?<<

I think that you are onto something. What is more I think there is even more 
going on in the background here. 

If Dumbledore was the Head of Gryffindor, he not only had good reason to 
already know Hagrid (since you can just tell that Hagrid was the sort of 
fecklessly fearless child who was ALWAYS in some sort of trouble) and be 
absolutely confident that he had not been responsible for Myrtle's death, 
Dumbledore had *already* taken considerable responsibility for Hagrid's 
welfare.

Hagrid's father had died just the previous year, leaving the boy effectively 
an orphan. Who had arranged for the boy's welfare over the previous summer? 
We never hear Hagrid mention any relatives apart from his dead father and his 
absent mother. But he sure mentions Dumbledore. His gratitude is based on 
more than Dumbledore's simply having found him a job when he was expelled.

And what *about* that job? Gamekeeper. Right there at Hogwarts. Where he 
could roam the Forbidden forest all he wanted and visit his pets, talk to the 
centaurs, and find monsters to make friends with. A job that he would be 
*good* at. With Ogg (who Molly Weasley recalls at length with some fondness) 
to look after him and train him. I am absolutely convinced that Dumbledore 
had either already discussed Hagrid's future with Ogg, or had already planned 
to. 

And I think Jaimee is right about the wand substitution. An umbrella is the 
sort of thing one might expect a gamekeeper in Scotland to need to keep 
available. That it is pink sound like pure Albus. I rather think that the 
wand that was actually snapped in its place was poor Myrtle's. A Muggle-born, 
her family had no use for it. It had probably been left with the school.

-JOdel


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