Hagrid - In his Defense

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 70176

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "zebco606" <zebco606 at y...> 
wrote, of Hagrid:
> Take him in context! He's a humorous character with suprising good 
qualities.>

I admit:
Ah, but that is precisely my problem (and I was actually lying in bed 
awake last night thinking about this).  It must be JKR's 
characterization of Hagrid, but I just don't think he is funny.  I 
don't find him endearing.  I can't stand his obsession with big ugly 
hairy scaly smelly dangerous creatures.  I hate the way he talks.  I 
guess I just can't be objective about Hagrid because of this.  I 
certainly see why others like him so much, but I don't, and in 
reality, I don't much like people who behave the way he does, either.
 
> 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.>

Why not?  Isn't that why we're all here - because we find a little of 
ourselves in the characters, and because we truly want Hogwarts to be 
a real place so we discuss it as if it is? 

Maybe it's just me, then.

--jenny of ravenclaw, freely admitting her imagination often gets the 
best of her ********************************************