[HPforGrownups] Why I hate Hagrid (was: I Hate Snape...)

[The Fox]

No: HPFGUIDX 56371

From: "jenny_ravenclaw" <meboriqua at aol.com>

>Here goes:
>
>Jenny's Top 10 Reasons to Dislike Hagrid:
>1. He has a big mouth (leaks information to the Trio that he shouldn't have 
>in SS and says way too much to Rita Skeeter in the interview he knew he 
>shouldn't have done).

He's not very shrewd, this is true.  Poor guy.  He's not the sharpest knife 
in the drawer, Hagrid isn't.  If I disliked everybody I thought wasn't very 
bright ...

>2. Clearly breaks wizarding laws (uses magic when with Harry and harbors a 
>baby dragon in SS).

Feh.  I've clearly broken laws for years -- I smoked before I was eighteen, 
I drank before I was twenty-one, and I often drive a little too fast.  A law 
is not a good law, and worthy of obedience, merely by virtue of its being a 
law ... is it?  In particular, we've seen that some wizarding laws are 
downright unreasonable, such as the proscription against wand-use by 
non-humans.  There are other law-breaking characters in the Harry Potter 
canon, and we don't dislike every blinkin' last one of them.

>3. Encourages children to be dishonest (asks Harry not to mention his use 
>of magic illegally in SS).

He doesn't ask Harry to tell a lie (which Harry can decide to do quite well 
on his own); if Dumbledore or some such person had asked Harry point-blank 
if he'd ever seen Hagrid do magic, the decision to answer truthfully or not 
would be Harry's.  Hagrid simply asks Harry to refrain from being the one to 
introduce the subject.

>4. Allows his temper to get the best of him, causing damage to others 
>(granted, it is only in relation to Dumbledore, but really, did he have to 
>give Dudley a pig's tail?).

Snape, as we've seen over the past couple of days, routinely lets his 
feelings harm students.  Mad-Eye Moody *turns Draco Malfoy into a ferret.*  
Fred and George give Dudley a four-foot-long tongue without even the excuse 
that their temper got the better of them.  Ain't nobody blameless.

>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!

I'll admit he's not much of a teacher.  But by the time he's in his second 
year of teaching, he's getting the hang of it; when he comes back and picks 
up Professor Grubbly-Plank's lessons on unicorns, he does just as good a job 
teaching the kids about them as she did.

>6. He cries too much (people are going to hate me for that one, but a 
>teacher who openly cries in front of the students - that's baaaaad).
>
>7. He drinks when his job seems to keep him on call all the time.

These don't seem to be considered faults in the WW the way they are here.

>8. He leans too much on the Trio.

He does favor them rather the way Snape favors the Slytherins, doesn't he.  
Hmm ...

>9. Puts others in danger (remember Norbert?  He not only allowed the Trio 
>to help him with the baby dragon, he also said nothing to defend them when 
>they got in trouble or injured as a result.  He also sent Ron and Harry 
>straight to the monster spiders).

We don't know that he didn't try to intercede on their behalf.  If I were 
Minerva McGonagall (and I'm not, alas, alas), I'd say something like 
"Really, Hagrid.  Well, then you should also be ashamed of yourself.  But 
these children should have known better than to break the rules, friend or 
not," and the detentions would stand.

wrt Aragog, I'd bet *money* that Hagrid didn't know Aragog intended to feed 
Harry and Ron to the other spiders.  Aragog has always commanded his sons 
and daughters not to harm Hagrid, and Hagrid's never brought or sent humans 
into the hollow before; why on earth would he suspect that being his friends 
wouldn't be enough to protect them?

>10. He has bad taste (remember the horrible hairy suit?  Blech).

Touchee.  :-)

Fox

...
Come on, Nature
Just because I don't feel weak
Don't mean I feel so strong.
-- the Proclaimers
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