Hermione's AND Hagrid's rude comments

[Diana_Sirius_fan]

No: HPFGUIDX 75268

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Wanda Sherratt" 
<wsherratt3338 at r...> wrote:


> I don't think it's acceptable at all - callling the 
centaurs "mules" 
> was clearly a serious insult, and intended to be one.  "Mules" 
> and "donkeys" - brute animals that serve man, these are considered 
> degrading terms to the centaurs, and I don't think they'd think it 
> was cute that a human girl called them "horses".  The fact that 
> Hagrid said what he did seemed to me an indication of how well he 
> knew the "lingo".  He picked the term he knew would be the most 
> offensive to his audience, but he at least had the excuse of being 
> insulted first, and he was standing up to his opponents.  Hermione 
> just safely despatched her jibe sitting at the breakfast table, and 
> there was no excuse for it, except that she wanted to score off 
some 
> girls.  

Hagrid would have never treated or called the centaurs anything 
disrespectful until they started treating him the way they did.  He 
was trying to save Firenze before the other centaurs killed him.  
Because of that they were claiming that Hagrid was not allowed in the 
forest anymore and were even threatening to kill him.  Hagrid is the 
one who has the most respect for all the creatures in the forest but 
since the centaurs are treating him with disrespect he is just 
sticking up for himself.  He is letting them know that he is not 
intimidated by them like they want him to be.  Also, he probably has 
absolutely no respect for them anymore after what they did to Firenze 
and also by how they are acting toward him.    As far as Hermoine 
goes, big deal, she called them horses.  This means she is racist?  
They are horses, or part anyway.             Diana