I love Hagrid!

[grindieloe]

No: HPFGUIDX 73114

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" 
<bard7696 at a...> wrote:
> 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.



I agree with you completely. Hagrid is a wonderful character in the 
HP series.  It is especially important because he was Harry's first 
real re-introduction to the wizarding world.  He is one of my 
favorite characters and I hope that he makes it through the series 
alive.  Whether he will or not is up to JK!

grindieloe