Thoughts On A Few Characters (well, Giants, anyway)

Zen zenchela at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 11 18:09:22 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 69462

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "D.G." <dgwhiteis at h...> wrote:
> 1.  Giants
> 
> It had always been my impression that giants were a relatively 
> intelligent and civilized species, even if somewhat warrior-like 
> and "primtive" (by Wizard standards) in the way they structured 
their 
> society.  Early on in OoP, this seems to be validated -- they have 
> chieftans who demand obeisance, they definitely have a strictly-
> established social order.  And, remember, they can be charming/sexy 
> enough that humans occasionally develop crushes on them and have 
> affairs (and/or marriages) with them.
> 
> Then along comes Grawp --a drooling, barely-articulate brute who 
> seems all too much like King Kong in chains.  Is THIS the kind of 
> thing that Hagrid's mother (and, unless I'm mis-remembering 
> something, Olympe's mother as well) actually MARRIED!?  Ewww!!!!!  
> Continuity problem here for JKR -- or am I missing something?
> 

But Hagrid told the Trio that over time, since the Giants had been 
forced into closer and closer proximity with each other, they had 
started killing each other off.  From his description of his and 
Olympe's visit, the more civilized ones (relatively speaking), the 
ones who were willing to listen to peace overtures from Dumbledore, 
were the ones being killed off, leaving more of the Death-Eater-
sympathizing, Karkus-types.  Fifty and more years ago, before 
Hagrid's birth, there were likely a great many more Giants who could 
deal in a civilized manner with the WW.

Also, I would imagine that Hagrid's mother wasn't finding a pureblood 
Giant who she felt she could be happy with, or she probably wouldn't 
have looked outside her own people, and the same goes for Olympe's 
mother.  (I'm assuming that the mother would have to be the Giant in 
any pairing -- the physical complications are fairly ghastly 
otherwise.)

Zen





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