Hagrid/the Chamber/the Monster

[mitchbailey82 <MITCHBAILEY82@HOTMAIL.COM>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49954

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Sherry Garfio <sgarfio at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> I think they all assumed that it was Aragog instead of the 
Slytherin monster -
> all except Dumbledore, of course, and maybe McGonagall.  I get this 
impression
> from McGonagall's explanation of the "legend", in which she says 
that the
> legend is assumed to be false, but she doesn't ever say that *she* 
thinks it's
> false.  She says that the castle has been searched many times and 
nothing has
> been found, which is a nice way of telling ickle children not to 
worry, the
> world is fine and dandy, when the adults know darn well that isn't 
true.

Me:

Sorry but McGonagall only explains the Chamber of Secrets to the 
students in the Movie IIRC It was Professor Binns that told/ 
explained the legend to the class in the actual book and IIRC he 
seemed to think the idea of there being a Chamber as quite rubbish as 
the castle had been searched by many Headmasters/ mistresses and 
hadn't been found and if there was one he thought that it would have 
already been fund.

Onto Hagrid...
I think that the then Headmaster Dippet just wanted to be able to 
point the finger at someone and who better than a half giant? I mean 
who would believe he was innocent? Hagrid was a convenient Scape 
Goat - made even more convenient by the fact the killings stopped 
after he had been expelled.


Michelle