small thing in COS

[Meredith]

No: HPFGUIDX 97937

> HunterGreen wrote:
> 
> <(I've also always found it odd that Tom Riddle and
> Hagrid knew each other personally when they were several years apart
> and presumably in different houses, although Tom could just have seen
> him as an easy patsy).>
> 
> Sherry says:
> 
> Actually, I don't find it so odd.  After all, the Slytherins in Harry's time
> know the trio very well, and they also never miss a chance to pick on
> Neville, even from the very beginning in that first flying lesson.  I could
> see Tom Riddle picking on the one he would estimate to be the most different
> or vulnerable.  And Hagrid did and still does have a fondness for monsters.
> Seems an easy choice to me.


Luckie:
I think what people find is odd, is that Hagrid and Tom were in 
different years. Hagrid was expelled in his third year and Tom was a 
sixth year, I think. He was at least a fifth year, since he was a 
prefect. The trio know Slytherins in their year because they have 
classes with them, and, well, they have an anymosity. But in OotP is 
was made prety clear Harry didn't know the stringy Slytherin boy in 
COMC class, although he had presumably been in class with him for 3 
years. Harry didn't even know Andrew Goldstein, I don't think, until 
Andrew became Ravenclaw prefect and therefore had to associate with 
Ron and Hermione. The only upperclassmen  Harry mentioned are Percy, 
Lee Jordan, and other quidditch players (the twins, Wood, Cho, 
Cedric, Montague, Flint, etc). So it does seem unusual that Hagrid 
would know Tom, especially if the school has 1,000 students, as JKR 
has suggested. 

I also found it interesting that Tom knew where to find Hagrid and 
didn't seem at all surprised that he had a "monster" hidden in a 
closet. And if I remember correctly, the closet was near the 
dungeons, and, therefore, the Slytherin dormitories.

~Luckie