[HPforGrownups] Hagrid's parents -- how did they do it?

[artsylynda at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 57690

In a message dated 5/12/2003 3:11:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com writes:

> >Rereading GoF for the millionth time, a question occured.
> >
> >Hagrid is a half-giant- Giantess-mother and wizard-father.
> >My question: how does this work? Imagine the size differences!
> >
> >
> My answer:
> 
> Golly, great (?) minds think alike.  I was wondering the exact same thing.
> When I asked my husband for his opinion he sort of looked at me like I was
> losing my mind and said "It IS a children's book!"  

Well, if you don't mind some horse-breeding information here -- it's 
important that the mother was the larger one, okay?  You can cross ponies 
with draft horses, Chiuhuahua's with Great Danes (it can be done, scary as it 
sounds) but the mother darned well better be the larger of the two for safety 
of delivery, and her size also impacts the size of the baby (which is good 
for the mother's sake!).  If, perchance (and scientists have done this with 
draft horses and ponies), the smaller one is the mother, the baby gets its 
size determined by the mother, so it will be larger than a normal pony, but 
still pony sized -- so if Hagrid's mom had been the human, he would've been 
somewhat bigger than a normal human -- maybe professional basketball player 
height.  If the mother is the draft horse, the baby will be a bit smaller 
than a normal draft horse, but still a draft horse in size and type -- so 
Hagrid's mom being the giantess, and his dad human, Hagrid came out smaller 
than a normal giant (9 feet tall instead of 20, if I recall correctly??).  
These are generalities, but they've been scientifically proven --  I just 
can't quote the source, it's been years since I read the articles about it.  
On the "how to" -- where there's a will, there's a way!  I once trained a 13 
hand (pony size) *gorgeous* palomino half-Arab stallion.  At some point, he 
decided an 18 hand (very very tall) very homely, big-eared liver chestnut 
mare was "hot stuff" and he just stood on a hill, with her in a dip, and did 
his thing.  The result was the only colt he ever had (a boy -- all the rest 
were fillies -- girls), and it was pretty for the most part but had the 
mare's horribly huge ears and not very pretty coloring, poor little thing.  
Hagrid is a result of similar "determination" between the parents, I do 
believe.  ;->

Lynda 
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