Ogg the Gamekeeper

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 84756

> Carol wrote:
> 
> è  But if so, why bring Ogg up at all?

Tonks:
> I think the purpose in bringing up Ogg has yet to be fully explained. 
> However, it was important for us to understand who trained Hagrid at
> his post of gamekeeper. We don't know a lot about Ogg, but then, for 
> a long time we didn't know much about Mundungus or Mrs. Figg. I think 
> this may be one of those names we see again.


You're probably right, since JKR seldom drops names casually. Ogg
doesn't sound like a wizard's name to me. Maybe he was another
half-blood of some sort. It sounds about as human as Grawp. But I'm
just guessing, and was actually more concerned with Mrs. Weasley's age
than with Grawp himself. (Oops! Ogg, I mean.) I don't see how she
could have been to school before Hagrid's time, and I'm not sure that
the apprentice explanation fully solves that problem.

Carol