Hagrid as Gamekeeper

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 55803

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, jodel at a... wrote:
> 
> bboy_mn writes:
> 
> << ...they knew if they really took a close look at what happened,
> they would see that it couldn't have been Hagrid who killed that
girl.  >>


> 
> Actually, as a point of order, no one ever *did* think that Hagrid 
> had killed Myrtle. Thery thought that one of Hagrid's pet monsters 
> had gotten away from him and killed her. 
> 
> He was expelled for deliberately bringing dangerous monsters into 
> the castle and putting people at risk.
> 
> -JOdel


bboy_mn:

You took me a little too literally. I simply meant that Hagrid bore
some responsibility for the death, not that he personally killed the
girl. It should have read something like, '...couldn't have been
Hagrid who was responsible for that girls death'. 

The point being that even the most superficial investigation would
have pointed out that these people weren't attacked by Hagrid's
spider. But they didn't care, they had a scapegoat, and they could put
the matter to rest. 

Just a thought.

bboy_mn