I love Hagrid!

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 73108

Hi Jenny! Hey Talia!

It's important to remember sometimes that we are talking about a 
fairy tale, more sophisticated in the ways of teenagers, perhaps, 
but a fairy tale nonetheless.

We can't get apparation licenses (Many times recently, have I wished 
for one) and we can't have pots and pans scrub themselves. It's 
fantasy.

In the vein, Hagrid is the perfect fairy-tale character. 

An 11-year-old boy has been abused, mentally and physically and made 
to live in a damn cupboard under the stairs. All of a sudden, on his 
birthday, a giant man with a Scottish accent and all kinds of neat 
things in his pockets comes by, bullies his hated uncle, gives his 
hated cousin a pig's tail and whisks the kid away.

It's the stuff of little boys' dreams.

Hagrid, it's important to remember, was Harry's first friend in the 
Wizard World, maybe his first friend period. 

Yeah, he drinks too much, and yeah, his student-teacher relations 
aren't very good (though I continue to maintain that he has improved 
tremendously in his ability to manage a classroom and prepare a 
curriculum.)

And for all the griping and moaning about Grawp, Hagrid GOT THROUGH 
to him. Grawp and Hagrid had a bond and Grawp remembered Hermione. 
The man has a knack.

He knows his subject. He's a ferocious fighter and ally and his 
loyalty to Dumbledore is without question.

Harry would not be better off with Hagrid dead anymore than he's 
better off with Sirius dead. Yeah, Sirius wasn't able to help too 
much the last year.

But you know what? No one is better off when their friends die. To 
look at it in terms of what Hagrid or Sirius or Ron can give Harry 
is extremely cold.

Darrin
-- Anyone up for a Grawp-Hermione SHIP? It would be like Rocky and 
Adrian.

"Grawpy!"

"Hermy!"

"Grawpy!"

"Hermy!"

Ok, maybe not.