Hagrid's potential off-spring (was re: Hagrid's parents)

[LeahBrahms]

No: HPFGUIDX 110764

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "caspenzoe" <cruthw at e...> wrote:

 
> Let's take it a step further:
> 
> What do the laws of genetics say about the potential products of a 
> Hagrid/Mme Maxime pairing? Assuming that both Hagred and Maxime are 
> 1/2 giant, couldn't this produce some purely genetically giant off-
> spring, as well as some purely genetically human off-spring, and/or 
> any combination in between? If this theory is correct, isn't the 
> Hagrid/Maxime pairing a really bad idea?

Then again, we can understand just why Hagrid was so excited to meet 
another half-giant (and female to boot!). Poor guy.

I would think that any prospective full-giant offspring would be a 
great opportunity to see just how valid wizards' prejudice against 
the giants is.  

We've heard as common wisdom that giants "just like killing".  
Hermione sees this as just more prejudice, and even Dumbledore seems 
to believe that the giants are fundamentally bad or he wouldn't have 
wanted to approach them for the good side.  

How have Hagrid and Maxime's personalities been affected by being 
half-giant?  Hagrid has the desperate desire to prove that these so-
called "dangerous" creatures are actually entirely lovable, an 
understandable reaction to his mother's abandonment of him as a 
child.  Maxime in GoF hadn't come to terms with her giant parentage 
(although by the summer of OoP she's fine).  Clearly, while their 
size has been influenced by their giant parents, their psychological 
makeup seems entirely human.

These two seem quite fit to be parents, to human children or half-
giants.  Would they be able to keep giant children in line?  Hagrid's 
dad did fine by him, but then Hagrid wasn't a full-blooded giant with 
a thirst for blood.  But if these giant children were raised by 
loving, half-wizard parents, maybe they wouldn't have the same 
prejudice against wizards as the rest of their kind.  

Dumbledore as matchmaker, anyone?


LeahBrahms