OoP: Defending Hagrid

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 69107

> 
> Are you joking?  A friend who always gets in trouble and drags 
me into  it?  That's no friend to me.  Hagrid would be a much 
*better* friend  to his FIFTEEN year old buddies if he didn't ask 
them to watch a giant  for him who has been dragged to 
Hogwarts unwillingly.  This is like  saying it would be okay if I 
actually asked my students to come to my  neighborhood to beat 
up someone who was bothering me (fun as that  would be).  My 
students are very loyal to me, and I bet they'd do it, 
> but they'd also get in a lot of trouble.  How selfish of me.  
>  

I'm not sure the situation is comparable. Let's see, Harry has 
already proved himself against a Troll, a basilisk, 100 
Dementors, a mother dragon protecting her eggs, a 20 ft 
Blast-Ended Skrewt, an acromantula and a Sphinx. Oh yes, and 
he's defeated the most powerful Dark Wizard who ever lived 
three or four times in a row, depending on who's counting. 


Would it be selfish to ask if  the 15 year old Bobby Fisher would 
mind taking on a few of the neighborhood kids at chess? Should 
Mozart have been kept from playing the piano in public? Should 
young Thomas Edison have been kept from tinkering? Should 
Joan of Arc have stayed home and tended her knitting? Harry is a 
genuine prodigy -- the rules are different. 

Harry can't be a normal kid, but he can learn to use his powers 
responsibly. Hagrid is the only person in OOP who sees that, 
and I say, good for him!

Pippin