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

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No: HPFGUIDX 72986

In a message dated 7/24/03 8:28:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
subrosax at earthlink.net writes:
> I'm glad someone brought up this discussion of Hagrid. I wouldn't say 
> that I "hate" him exactly. He's more infuriating than anything else. 
> Like everyone else, I had heard that someone was going to buy the 
> farm in OoP, and while I suspected it would be Sirius, in my mind I 
> kept thinking "God, let it be Hagrid." I still have my fingers 
> crossed for book 6.

*grins* I love when I start things like this... Makes me feel sorta useful 
around here.

> I still don't understand how he was made a teacher in the first place.
> I don't recall the age at which he was expelled, but it's clear that 
> he has not finished his basic education. Maybe you don't need heavy-
> duty academic qualifications to teach Care of Magical Creatures, but 
> I admit, it kind of pissed me off that a glorified Groundskeeper 
> Willie was sitting at the staff table with Snape, McGonagall and the 
> rest, as if his infantile fascination with monsters were equal to 
> their obvious academic accomplishments.

*laughs* I can barely get over the glorified Groundskeeper Willie part...  I 
have to second everything you've said here!  Unless he's been taking other 
classes, he doesn't have the educational background I would expect from a 
teacher!  Unless you count Mr. Yanov the new Latin teacher who just finished college.

> Hagrid reminds me of some crazy, drunken relative who all the kids 
> love, because he lets them do the things that sensible adults would 
> never allow in a million years. As far as I can tell, his lessons 
> fall somewhere between useless and less than useless. The sooner 
> Harry (and everyone else for that matter) are out from under his 
> influence, the better.

Exactly!  I can't imagine letting any kids near those Blast-Ended Skrewts!  
The threstals were okay I suppose, but most of Hagrid's lesson feature these 
creatures that he only uses for lessons because *he's* interested in them.

~*~*~Oryomai~*~*~


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