Snape and Hagrid

[rctower_lv <roger.tower@worldnet.att.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52245

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kateydidnt2002 
<kateydidnt2002 at y...>" <kateydidnt2002 at y...> wrote:
> 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

I think it was Ron who said that about Slytherin, not Hagrid.

Hagrid trusts Snape because Dumbledore does, simple as that.

Roger