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

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 71123

Doriane wrote:
> "T.M. Sommers" wrote:
> 
>>I think the students would be poorly served by a teacher who only 
>>exposed them to cute and cuddly critters, and left them ignorant 
>>of the more dangerous beasties of their world.
> 
> I would hardly describe unicorns as "cute and cuddly critters" :-) 
> Horses aren't already that cute and cuddly, so horses with a long 
> pointy horn on the forefront...

Anything that makes all the girls in the class go "Oooh" and 
"Aaah" counts as cute and cuddly.

> Moreover, my point is that Hagrid is supposed to teach them Care of 
> Magical Creatures, not Hunting for and Breeding of Highly Dangerous 
> and Magical Monsters. So while I agree that there are dangerous
> magical creatures that the kids have to learn to take care of, I 
> don't think it is appropriate for Hagrid to go and look for extra-
> curricular monsters, and even worse, to breed them.

We don't know what is in the official curriculum, so we don't 
really know whether skrewts are in it or not.  And breeding 
certainly comes under 'care'.

Magical creatures are inherently dangerous (except perhaps for 
flobberworms, and who really knows what they might be capable 
of).  There is just no way to teach them without some exposure to 
danger, just as you can't teach chemistry without exposing the 
students to danger.