Hagrid/the Chamber/the Monster

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49903

Just a quick thought on Hagrid and Aragog.

Seeking people's opinion on whether the Staff at Hogwarts and the
Ministry thought Aragog was the monster in the Chamber of Secrets, or
it  they thought that is was Hagrid and Aragog all along, and the this
Chamber of Secrets business was, as they had suspected for decades,
just a bunch of nonsense.

The reason I ask is because I have always felt that if anyone with a
brain bigger than a peanut had analysed the situation, they would have
seen it couldn't be Hagrid and Aragog. But I alway thought they were
so desparate for a solution and to end this embarassment to the
Ministry (they always seem more concerned with their embarassement,
than they do with actually solving problems) that the latched on to
the first good excuse that came along.

But now I wonder is they didn't just say, 'Well, I knew this monster
of Slytherin was nonsense. You see it was Hagrid all along. The Daily
Prophet will be thrill to hear we've solved it."

Of course, even this approach is self-delusional since Acromantula
don't  kill or petrify people the way a Basilisk does.

So, you opinion- Aragog was the Slytherin monster, or it was Aragog
instead of the Slytherin monster? 

What say you all?

bboy_mn