another CoS weird Hagrid tidbit

[Richard]

No: HPFGUIDX 80418

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "allies426" <AllieS426 at a...> 
wrote:
> Aragog the spider says that he came to Hagrid from a traveler as an 
> egg. (It's also in the movie, I know there was some chatter about 
> important movie scenes.)  Who is this traveler, wandering around 
with 
> spider-monster eggs in his pocket?  Does anyone else think that 
could 
> be important? It doesn't come up again, in fact we haven't even 
seen 
> Aragog in a long time, but the other creature that came to Hagrid 
> from a traveler was the dragon (also as an egg)...  and that turned 
> out to be because the traveler was getting info. from him about how 
> to get to the sorcerer's stone.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Allie

It makes me think what I have thought for some time ... Hagrid is one 
of the people others should fear to attack most.  After all, he has 
two serious monsters (Aragog and Norbert) who see him as something of 
a father/mother figure, and Grawp who are likely to see any attack 
upon Hagrid that they witness in a very poor light.  Sure, Norbert is 
still relatively young, but a dragon is a dragon, and he was already 
large enough to be a serious problem in just the short time Hagrid 
had him.  And yes, Aragog is blind, but think of all those monstrous 
off-spring he sired!  Anyone with the hubris to stand and fight any 
of those three (or Aragog's descendants) could well be making a fatal 
blunder.

More directly to the point of Aragog's arrival, though, here's a 
thought ... Tom Riddle might well have been behind it, as he was 
already styling himself as Lord Voldemort, and quite the bigot.  It 
may have been his plan that he could get Hagrid either expelled (once 
Aragog was large enough to be seen as the danger he would become), or 
killed by such a nasty beasty, once it was large enough and venomous 
enough to handle the job.  Further, this could have been a planned 
scapegoating of Hagrid, brought into action in order to allow Tom to 
stay at Hogwarts over the Summer, rather than to directly clear Tom 
of a possible accusation related to the basillisk attacks.  After 
all, how did Tom KNOW that Hagrid was in possession of a conveniently 
large and dangerous monster?


Richard