Why not ask Hagrid

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 119054


Kathy writes:
    I checked the archives for writings on Hagrid and there was very 
little there.  Hagrid tends to get glossed over somehow.  He is always 
there like a "best supporting" but without being particularly noticed.
1.  He was at school with Riddle.  It was Riddle's doing that got Hagrid 
expelled.
2.  He was still at Hogwarts after his expulsion because his father had 
died previously and Dumbledore kept him on.  So he was there for the rest 
of Riddle's school years.
3.   Hagrid was in the original Order of the Phoenix so he would have 
been privy to most of the information.
4.   Hagrid knew all about Harry's parents.  Knew them personally at 
school and as adults.
5.   Hagrid was at Hogwarts all through the Marauders days and knew 
Snape as a student as well.  In PS/SS Hagrid denies that Snape hates 
Harry but can not meet his eyes.  He obviously knows that Snape hates 
Harry, and why, and it would appear obvious that this has recently been 
discussed.
6.    In PS/SS at the time of V's fall, they had already been fighting 
him for eleven years. 
7.    Hagrid knows something about Snape that causes him to "hotly" deny 
that Snape would hurt a student and he was confident that Snape was not 
after the stone.
8.    Hagrid could probably shed some light on why everyone was 
satisfied at the time that Sirius was the spy.  He would also have known 
about Lupin.
      I wonder if Hagrid will have a much greater effect on the 
situation in the next two books.
                                                                             
KJ