Arthur and Molly Weasly

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 58535

bboy_mn' writes:

<< During this conversation about Ogg the grounds/game keeper, Molly Weasley 
does NOT reminise about Hargrid or mention him in anyway. I have to assume if 
he was at Hogwarts being trained as an apprentice under Ogg, Molly would have 
know who he was, and knowing how good of friends Harry and Hagrid are, she 
would have spoken of him. >>

It suddenly occurs to me that Molly may not have mentioned Hagrid in her Ogg 
stories BECAUSE Hagrid is still on staff and one of her kids' teachers. You 
just don't tell a pack of adolescents (particularly ones like Fred and George) 
the kind of silly antics that their *teachers* got up to when they were teens. 
It's bad for dicipline and undermines authority. 

Besides, we don't even *know* that Molly *didn't* mention Hagrid. Rowling 
doesn't actually repeat any of the anecdotes that Molly related, just tells us 
that Ogg figured in them. Hagrid might have had a great deal of presence in 
those tales, Rowling just didn't specify as much. And why should she? The whole 
incident was a tidbit tossed off in passing. She's been letting us fill in the 
blanks again.

-JOdel