[HPforGrownups] Hagrid/Ogg (was: Arthur Weasley in Gryffindor?)

[James Lawlor]

No: HPFGUIDX 111430

Terpnurse:
> Just as a niggling observation I made from that same scene, and I
> apologize if it's been gone over to death already - Molly makes a
> comment about the Gameskeeper before Hagrid, a man named Ogg. If Hagrid
> indeed became gameskeeper shortly after his expulsion from school,
> wouldn't that mean that Molly was there *before* (thus making her older
> than) Tom Riddle and Hagrid? Either it's an erroneous assumption based
> on when Hagrid actually did become GK, or it's a Flint, or else the
> elder Weasleys  are considerably older than they seem, which would then
> beg the question why she and Arthur waited so very many years before
> starting a family.
> 
James:

Perhaps Hagrid started out as an apprentice/assistant to Ogg? In fact,
I think Harry thought of that as a possibility in CoS when he thought
he might be expelled - being allowed to stay on as an assistant to
Hagrid.
- James Lawlor
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