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

[maria_kirilenko]

No: HPFGUIDX 57159

Jo Serenadust wrote:
>No, I want him to go out with the most shocking, most angsty, most 
>horribly Bangy Bang of all .... I want him to die at the hands 
>of ::gasp:: the good guys.
>
>Okay, here's the scenario:
>
>Hagrid has absolutely no clue that Sirius Black is innocent, right?  
>He still hates his guts, still thinks he's a threat to Harry, and 
>still regrets that he hadn't..."got ter Black before little 
>Pettigrew did, I wouldn't've messed around with wands -- I'd've 
>ripped him limb - from - limb." PoA, Chapter 10, p208 US hardback.
>
>Now, what if at some point in OOP, poor Hagrid stumbles upon Black 
>meeting with Harry, Ron and Hermione.  Maybe Sirius is really 
>furious with Harry for taking some sort of stupid risk, and he's 
>shouting, and generally reaming him out.  Hagrid assumes, as he 
>would, that Black is finally about to finish Harry off and so he 
>comes at him in a blind rage. Oh, HRH *try* to tell him that Sirius 
>is not a threat and isn't going to harm them, but Hagrid is in no 
>state to listen to reason.  Sirius has no wand and can't defend 
>himself, and HRH can't let Hagrid murder Sirius as he is surely 
>about to, can they? So what *can* they do?
>
>Well, what do you *think* they do?  I figure three Stunning spells 
>from the increasingly powerful junior Wizards would probably be 
>enough to take him down.  Which would be fine, except that he
>happens to be right next to:

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>2. the lake. The deep, deep, bottomless lake.  He falls in and sinks 
>like a boulder before the trio can do a floating spell.  He could 
>even be pulled under by your giant squid, if you like (although, 
>sadly without the mud-clawing, since he *is* stunned after all).

No, no, no. Mud-clawing is good, too good to pass up. And there's a 
way to do it! The Trio do an Expelliarmus, not a Stunning Spell, and 
it'll be enough to propell him backwards and down that high mountain 
Hogwarts is on. And *then* he'll fall into the lake, and we can have 
the tentacles and the mud-clawing. And as an extra bonus, we can have 
Ever So Evil Dennis Creevey, since without him DeathEater!Squid makes 
no sense. 

I don't like KilledByGiants!Hagrid because it'll happen offscreen. 
So, unless Harry has a vision and sees it happen, we'll have to find 
out about it from a story. Cindy, that doesn't Bang, does it?

I also like ShotByCrossbow!Hagrid. Imagine: HHR coming over to have 
some tea and rock cakes, only to find Hagrid, sprawled on the floor 
with an arrow in his chest, and Fang howling pitifully beside him. 
Bangst? 

Only I don't know if it's possible. I have trouble imagining 
a "backfiring" crossbow, and who'd be around to shoot him? Unless 
it's the central mystery of the book, which sort of makes sense - we 
haven't had a murder mystery as the central plotline yet. Hey, it 
could be a Bloody Ambush!

>1. a really tall cliff. He could even :wince: be impaled on a tree 
>as he falls!

Erm... not sure. Too common in movies to be fascinatingly gory and 
bloody. It'll just be disgusting and distract us from the fact that 
it's our dear Hagrid who's dead. In fact, it's only slightly better 
than a simple old Ker-Splat noise.

Maria,
     disturbed that she likes thinking about these theories.