[HPforGrownups] I *HATE* Hagrid! (kinda long)

[Irene Mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 69136


SnapesSlytherin at aol.com wrote:
> Reasons I *HATE* Hagrid (capital letters hate nonetheless...):
> 

> 5. Buckbeak.  Have some dignity, man!  I can see being upset about it, but 
> he's constantly blubbering about that hippogriff!  Teachers are supposed to be 
> examples for the students (at least...that's the argument the anti-Snapes use, 
> right?).  Compassion is a good lesson for them...but losing all sense of 
> everything is not.  Hagrid forgot all the dates and other things Hermione had told 
> him.

I was particularly angry about this last bit. He had a cheek to blame
the committee which was in Lucius Malfoy's pocket and "had it" for Buckbeak!
So what! Wizengamot "had it" much worse for Harry, you still have to 
fight the system as Dumbledore did.

> 8. Asking HRH to help with Gwarp.  It's bad enough he has giant in the 
> forest, but to ask his students to care for it?  That's dangerous.  Hermione, at 
> least, was obviously afraid of Gwarp yet they have to watch him anyone.  Because 
> Hagrid made them promise before he told them what they had to do...which could 
> be its own number now that I think of it.

Yes, and I would vote for this extra number. Come on, this is something 
that my 7-year old wouldn't try anymore.
If Snape, Sirius and Lupin are all stuck at the age of 15, Hagrid is 
about 5. While I see how some people find it endearing, I don't.

Is there something special about magical promise, BTW?
And I also wonder what lesson Harry is going to learn about Hagrid, 
because he seems to be completely blind to his shortcomings.

Irene