Why I hate Hagrid (was: I Hate Snape...)

[Jennifer Piersol]

No: HPFGUIDX 56369

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jenny_ravenclaw"
<meboriqua at a...> wrote:

> Jenny's Top 10 Reasons to Dislike Hagrid:

<snip 1-4>

> 5. He's a terrible, horrible, awful, inept teacher - he'd even be 
> fired from the NYC public school system (where I work), and that's 
> quite a feat!

me:

I'm going to add to this - Hagrid irks me as a teacher to no end, and
while I don't *hate* him, per se, I really think he's a horrible
teacher...

5a.  He gives up too easily.  Evidence?  Flobberworms.  I mean, come
on.  A student goes against what you say and gets hurt.  He recovers.
 You're under scrutiny, but you have the headmaster's support.  Sure,
you're under stress.  But as a teacher, you still have a
responsibility to TEACH YOUR STUDENTS!!!  The only way you're let out
of this responsibility is if you're fired or suspended.  Hagrid was
neither.  However, he took this setback and just gave up on teaching
his students anything except that the best way to keep flobberworms
alive was to leave them alone.

I hate to say it, but Draco had the right idea in trying to get him
sacked as a teacher.  Groundskeeper?  No problem.  Hell, give him his
wand back.  But PLEASE... let's have a new COMC teacher in OOP while
Hagrid's out on D's mission...

> So go ahead - let me have it!  Let's get the Great Hagrid Debate up 
> and running again.  Darrin, I'm sure you'll tear me to bits.
> 
> --jenny from ravenclaw, who, unlike Hagrid, is not afraid of who she 
> is and she is someone who does not like Hagrid! 
> ************************************************

-Jen P, who wouldn't go as far as jenny, but as a teacher, also has
major problems with him.