[HPforGrownups] Hagrid

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 96179


Friday, April 16, 2004, 5:43:11 AM, Sherry Gomes wrote:

SG> In CoS, Hagrid is vindicated by what Harry discovers in the chamber of
SG> secrets.  At the end, it's proved that Hagrid did not set Aragog on students
SG> and wasn't the one doing the murders in his day.  So, why hasn't he been
SG> reinstated, or whatever you would call it?  Why can't he get a wand and
SG> learn magic and become a fully qualified wizard?

In _OoP_, we find out that Fudge considers Lord Thingy to be dead, and
Umbridge punishes Harry for "telling lies" about Quirrel and what was
or wasn't under his turban.  This means that as far as the MoM is
concerned, the events of _Stone_ did not take place, and so probably,
they deny the events of _CoS_ happened either.  Since they have the
power to expel or reinstate students, my guess is that they refused to
reinstate Hagrid because "officially", the attacks were caused by
Aragog, not by some giant snake that lying, unstable Potter boy was
hallucinating.

But then, why is he only expelled for supposedly killing Myrtle, but
sent to Azkaban for "suspected petrification"?  Hmmmm... Of course, we
don't know who was running the Ministry in 1943 CWE (Current Wizarding
Era) -- Maybe they thought Hagrid was only guilty of negligence...
Enough to expel him, but not enough to incarcerate him.  However,
since we gather the Fudge/Crouch regime has always been "tough on
crime" (just ask Sirius), they decided to lock Hagrid up, and ignore
the technicalities that there's no evidence against him, and no murders
this time anyway.

-- 
Dave