a maddening question of my own

[lizvega2]

No: HPFGUIDX 91259

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Hitomi" 
<japanesesearcher at y...>
> > wrote:
> > > dj_bagshaw wrote:
> > > > In CoS, we learn that Hagrid was expelled from Hogwarts for 
> > > > "opening  the chamber of secrets".  Now that his name has 
been 
> > > > cleared, why is he still not allowed to practice and/or 
learn 
> > > > magic?  If it was all a  misunderstanding (as it turns out 
it 
> > > > was), why can't he have a wand  again?
> > 
> > 
> > People accept that Hagrid is innocent but there has yet to be a 
public
> > hearing to officially reverse the ruling against him. 
Unofficially,
> > Hagrid can do all the magic he wants, but OFFICIALLY, there is 
still a
> > legal ruling against him. I suspect that the Ministry was even 
willing
> > to look the other way until the recent paranoid conflict between 
the
> > Ministry and Dumbledore came into being. Now, the Ministry is 
looking
> > for any excuse to come down on Dumbledore and his supporters, 
which
> > means that Hagrid once again has to be careful. 
> > 
> > That legal ruling against him needs to be overturned, and 
personally,
> > I wish they would get it over with, so we can move on.
> > 
> 
> LizVega here:

I'm not sure if this has been covered, I'm jumping in a little late 
on this one. But, in COS Hagrid was sent to Azkaban by Fudge. After 
Harry and Co. return from the Chamber of Secrets, doesn't DD tell 
Ron to send a letter for Hagrid's release? If Fudge was the one to 
put Hagrid in Azkaban, surely it must've been him who released him, 
DD couldn't have just done that. So, if he was released, wouldn't 
there have been some kind of reversal of the former sentencing? I've 
been reading the posts that suggest that Hagrid simply returned to 
Hogwarts, no questions asked. That doesn't make sense, IMHO, anyway. 

LizVega