Hagrid, Riddle and the Traveler in CoS

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 111181

> CDR  Who has lurked for months but only posted once before, 
> and still wants to talk about Hagrid, Riddle, and "the traveler" in
> CoS if anyone wants to (106761)!

Message 106761:

"In CoS, Aragog reveals his origins to Harry and Ron. "I was not
born in the castle. I come from a distant land. A traveler gave me
to Hagrid when I was an egg." (CoS15) Who is this traveler? Why
such a specific word- "traveler"? Why give a killer beast to a
13-year-old?

This "dangerous egg from a stranger" scenario also put me in
mind of the hooded figure in SS/PS that conveniently gives
Hagrid another egg, the dragon Norbert, and in doing so gains
information about Fluffy guarding the Sorcerer's Stone. I began
thinking- could Aragog have been given to Hagrid with a similar
motive, all those years ago? It seems a suspicious coincidence
to me that the two moments when LV/Riddle is searching for
something at Hogwart's (first the Chamber of Secrets, later the
Sorcerer's Stone) a mysterious stranger appears and gives
Hagrid his heart's desire, a Class A Non-Tradeable egg to raise
in secret.

I assume, although it is never explicitly stated, that the
mysterious "dragon dealer" in SS/PS is Quirrell/LV. What if LV
knows that Hagrid might willingly talk to a nice hooded man with
a dangerous egg because he knows he had done it 50 years
before? Was it Riddle (in disguise) who gave Hagrid the
Acromantula egg (not too likely, he's no traveler at that point)?
Or, more likely, another wizard, someone Riddle meets or knows,
someone who has access to illegal items? Did Hagrid
inadvertently help Riddle open the Chamber of Secrets by letting
a secret slip in his excitement about the egg (as he did with the
SS)? What secrets could he have known at 13?

So, I throw this out to you allwho is this traveler? Why would
he give a very dangerous egg to a 13-year-old? Are the two "egg"
plots linked? What might this tell us about Hagrid, or perhaps
Riddle, that might play a role in HBP?"

End of Message

That's a good catch.  It's quite possible that Riddle was the first
traveller too and was setting up Hagrid to take the fall as the
monster-keeper in case suspicion started falling on Riddle himself. 
He certainly seemed to know exactly where Hagrid was keeping his new
"pet" and could thus "capture" him in the act.  Riddle was a pretty
calculating kid and this would fit.  I doubt if it was because Hagrid
"knew something", even inadvertantly.

No, I don't think the Norbert egg is part of an overall egg plot. 
Too much of a coincidence.

Magda


		
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