[HPforGrownups] Re: Hagrid in Knockturn Alley ( WAS: JKR hints at secret)

[Charlie Moody]

No: HPFGUIDX 73954

On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 02:23  PM, ellejir wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Maritza wrote:
>> I've been reading the "JKR hints at secret thread", and something
>> kept bothering me. Quite a few people seem to be in agreement the
>> important scene might have been Hagrid in Knockturn Alley, and
>> doubting the reason Hagrid gave Harry. Now, my question is, why
>> would he have lied?

>> I guess my point is I can't see another reason for Hagrid being in
>> Knockturn Alley, as well as it being crucial to the whole series.

> Me:
> This scene seemed to stick out both in the book and in the movie.
> Hagrid's excuse to be in Knockturn Alley just seemed to be inadequate
> and he seemed a little flustered by Harry's question (err, sorry, but
> *especially* in the movie.)  ...I *still* do feel that there
> is something here that has not been explained.  I felt that way after
> reading the book and the fact that the scene was left in the movie
> reinforced that impression (particularly considering that the rest of
> the Knockturn Alley scene had been cut to ribbons....

Add to this the fact that, later in the book, H+R call on Hagrid and 
are greeted by him wielding a Hagrid-sized crossbow.  He's obviously 
jittery in the scene, too (this is in book AND film).  The "crossbow 
incident" goes unremarked...

...But *something* is going on w/ Hagrid.