Why Was Hagrid Left Out of the Order?

[mhbobbin]

No: HPFGUIDX 109776

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Bex" <hubbarrk at r...> wrote:
> khinterberg:
> > We know for a fact that Hagrid was in the Order first time 
around, 
> > he is in the picture which Moody shows Harry.  And of course he 
> > couldn't be at meetings while he was off giant-hunting.  I think 
> > there's no way he DOESN'T belong to the order.
> 
> Yb:
> Ay, who wouldn't want the lovable half-giant on their side? 
Someone 
> who can stand up to half a dozen full-grown wizards shooting stun 
> spells at him all at once? (OotP, during OWL season). Can haul 
grown 
> men up by the collar single-handedly? Give him a wand and a 
> Louisville Slugger and clear the way!
> 
> ~Yb
mhbobbin:
I think he is in the Order. His mission was to go to see the Giants 
and that takes him out of the story for half the book. And he would 
attack notice --more than the usual oddly dressed folks--walking 
into the neighborhood at Grimauld Place. He might not even fit in 
the rooms there. And I doubt, for the same reason, that he'd be 
standing watch at the MoM. They'd need 12 invisibility cloaks for 
him.

mhbobbin