Why I hate Hagrid

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 56390

Robin said, of my most excellent list of reasons to dislike Hagrid:
 
> Many of these reasons are very petty. Many of these "faults" are 
found in many of the main characters.>

So what?  That's what we do around here: come up with trivial, often 
petty things and analyze them until we're all blue in the face.  
That's why I love this list and have stuck around for more than two 
years.  

I never said other characters don't have faults as well, because some 
of them have staggeringly glaring faults.  Really, it's not that I 
think Hagrid is evil or a jerk or anything.  I know he has a good 
heart - I really do!  I just find his characterization irritating.  I 
feel like JKR wants us to find Hagrid endearing and to smile 
indulgently and say "Oh, that Hagrid!" when he whips out another 
snarling beast as a pet.  I just can't do that.  It's also hard for me 
to *not* think as the teacher I am when reading the scenes where 
Hagrid is attempting to educate the Hogwarts students.  It irks me to 
no end that I *know* Hagrid knows his stuff but his own bias toward 
"interestin' creatures" gets in the way of him being an excellent COMC 
professor.

Darrin is onto something, though, because Trelawney sucks, too, but 
boy, is that another thread!

--jenny from ravenclaw *****************************