You Guys *Want* Hagrid To Die? Fine, Then!

[bluesqueak]

No: HPFGUIDX 57049

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Cindy: 
> Wouldn't it be just *awful* if Hagrid finally meets his mother and 
> that very instant meets his maker, too?  He might be so happy that 
> he would come back as an oversize ghost.  Wouldn't that be jolly?  
> ;-)

No, no, no. His mother is going to reject him. Totally. In a 
wonderful parallel to Tom Riddle's father Tom Riddle rejecting 
*him*. This caused Tom, Jr. to reject and hate all muggle-kind. 

Hagrid, of course, will be Not Like That. He will be forgiving of 
Giant kind. He will however, be so miserable about Mummy's rejecting 
him that he returns as a ghost. After he's been torn into a thousand 
tiny pieces by Mummikins in a rage.

[You think Petunia is bad? You ain't seen nuthin' yet.]

This explains everything. The rapidly-becoming-notorious JKR quote 
that Troels uses to argue that Hagrid *will* be around runs:
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Pete: is he going to be in the rest of the books?
JKR: Yes -

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JKR: Erm - I'd - he is - he is going to be around, you're going
to keep seeing him.
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Yes, we are going to keep seeing him. In bits, as Harry 
has 'flashbacks' of the dreadful events of Hagrid's death. And 
possibly in slightly transparent form, when he re-appears as a 
ghost. The Headless Hunt will be deeply jealous of Hagrid, of 
course, as he will be able to detach *all* his ghostly limbs, not 
just his head.

But JKR's flat answer of 'yes' to 'is Hagrid going to be in the rest 
of the books' does NOT mean 'Hagrid is going to be *alive* in the 
rest of the books.

After all, James and Lily Potter have been 'in' all four books to 
date.

Gone, but not forgotten, you might say ;-)

Pip!Squeak