Snape and Hagrid have something in common...

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 109106

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Eric Oppen" <oppen at m...> wrote:
> If this has been discussed-to-death at one of the times when I
wasn't able
> to access the list, please forgive me.  Rereading PS/SS, it struck
me that
> Hagrid and Snape have the same sort of eyes.
> 
> Could they be...related?  (On Hagrid's dad's side, I hasten to add!)
> 
> We've seen that the WW tends to have a poor opinion of some of the other
> magical races, giants in particular.  What _was_ the response
Hagrid's dad
> got to his Cunning Plan, anyway?  ("Oh, I've got this giantess,
Fridwulfa,
> up the spout, so she'll have my baby and we'll raise it
together...")  And
> does Hagrid have any other relations---like, say, Snape's parents?
> 
> If they are related, would this have shaped Snape's outlook in any way?
> _Particularly_ given Hagrid's talent for giant-size mess-ups? 
(Think about
> Hagrid in potions class...and shudder!) <snip>

Carol responds:
One very small point:
Snape is a lot younger than Hagrid, 35 or 36 in GoF to Hagrid's 65 (he
was expelled at 13, fifty years before CoS). So Snape could not have
been Hagrid's teacher. He wasn't even born yet when Hagrid was expelled.

Carol