Snape and Hagrid

[kateydidnt2002 <kateydidnt2002@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52225

I was just sitting about thinking about Harry Potter instead of doing 
my German work and I started thinking about Hagrid's statement 
of "There was not a witch or wizard who went bad who wasn't in 
Slytherin." I tend to think this is a generalization and so I was 
trying to think of canon evidence of other generalizations Hagrid may 
have made.  The first on I thought of was in SS/PS when the trio and 
hagrid are discussing who jinxed Harry's broom. Hagrid says "Snape's 
a Hogwarts teacher, he'd do nothing of the sort" this implies that 
*no* Hogwarts teacher would do anything of that sort. Since we know 
this is not true then this is obviously a Hagrid-generalization. This 
is not my entire point in this message, although you are free to 
respond to these speculations, because I know this is an old horse we 
have beaten to death.  Anyway as I was thinking this, I suddenly 
noticed how avidly Hagrid was defending Snape.  Between pages 192-3 
(US Paperback) of SS/PS Hagrid says "Why would Snape do something 
like that/" ; "Snape's a Hogwarts teacher, he'd do nothin' of the 
sort" ; "I'm tellin' yeh, yer wrong! ...Snape wouldn' try an' kill a 
student!"
Now at the moment I cannot think of any particular evidence of any 
ill feelings between Snape and Hagrid or any point where they speak 
ill of each other. So ,in light of this vehement defense of Snape, I 
am now wondering just what the relationship between Hagrid and snape 
is.
Any thoughts?
Kateydidnt