Hagrid: Allowed to use Wands and Magic...?

[Juliet <lilpurplealdy@netscape.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 53018

VJH:
> Yes, the old wand was snapped in half. But what I don't understand 
is 
> why he did not get a new one or perhaps repair the old one after 
CoS. 
> A complete wand would certainly work better than half (or a tiny 
> piece) of it, right? Unless he's still not allowed to use a wand...
> 

Ah, well, my apologies for not answering you correctly the first 
time, and just spitting out information you already knew....

Well, that poses some interesting questions.  Looking at canon, it 
looks like Hagrid *wasn't* allowed to do magic:

"Be grateful if yeh didn't mention that ter anyone at Hogwarts," he 
said. "I'm--er--not supposed to do magic, strictly speakin'.  I was 
allowed ter do a bit ter follow ye an' get yer letters to yeh an' 
stuff-- one o' the reasons I was so keen ter take on the job--"
"Why aren't you supposed to do magic?" asked Harry.
"Oh, well-- I was at Hogwarts meself but I--er--got expelled, ter 
tell yeh the truth.  In me third year.  They snapped me wand in half 
an' everything." (SS/PS, Pg. 59)

Huh.  So, it seems Hagrid, upon being expelled, was not allowed to do 
magic OR to use a wand.  We know Underaged Wizards can't do magic, so 
I'm guessing that might go to Unqualified Wizards, as well(but then 
why doesn't Hagrid get letters about using them, maybe it's just 
cause he doesn't have a school that will expel him for it)?  If you 
don't graduate a Magic school, maybe you're not allowed to have a 
wand/do magic?  Or, maybe, that just applies to Hagrid since he was 
suspected of opening the Chamber of Secrets and such.

~Aldrea, sorry for making a sort of "double post", but she didn't see 
this reply until after posting the other one.  Ah, well, let's give 
it a new title. :)