Hagrid - In his Defense

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No: HPFGUIDX 70067

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jenny_ravenclaw" 
<meboriqua at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
>  
> > Jenny, you said you would never let a student tell you how to 
run 
> your class, but you ARE a TEACHER, a trained teacher, Hagrid is 
not.  
> Hagrid is a marginally educated not-quite-wizard who works as a 
> gamekeeper. He is very knowledgable in Magical Creatures and their 
> care, but I still say NO ONE has sat him down and told him what he 
is 
> suppose to be doing.>
> 
> You are absolutely right, but to suggest that a student should do 
it 
> is ridiculous.  

OK Jenny Ravenclaw hates Hagrid. 

I have to say it again. Hogwarts is a dangerous place. It is an 
imaginary dangerous place. We are supposed to imagine Hagrid 
teaching at this place where you can fall off your broomstick, get 
bitten in Herbology, get jinxed in a Dueling club, get stalked by a 
basilisk...We are not supposed to imaginge him teaching at the 
neighborhood grade school. 

Take him in context! He's a humorous character with suprising good 
qualities.

Everyone hated Umbridge as DADA teacher because she wouldn't let 
them practice anything she considers dangerous. Obviously her 
totally safe, Ministry approved course acutally has a lot of fans. 

Hermione goes to talk to Hagrid because he has been gone and is not 
aware of Umbridges hidden agenda. Something like this would never 
happen to a teacher in the real world, (or at least I doubt anyone's 
been called on to go convert giants) so we shouldn't try to judge 
his actions by the real world. 

Harry and Ron should have never taken the Polyjuice Potion-it was 
dangerous.

Students shouldn't take divination-all that smoke can't be good for 
them.

No one should play Quidditch.

Charms class with all that stuff wizzing around? Someone could have 
an eye put out.

The TriWizard tournament? Unthinkable.

These are all things that make up the "different world" that JKR has 
created for us. 

Why be indignant at the thought of something like Hermione 
counseling Hagrid taking place in the real world. It was never 
intended to.

Take all the danger out of the Harry Potter books. We could get a 
real world Umbridge to edit them. But somehow I don't think we'd all 
be reading them. 

"Little Lord Fauntleroy" with a wand anyone?

Dorothy