Hagrid

[garybec]

No: HPFGUIDX 115633



> Hello,
 This is my first time in a group so I hope I am doing this right. I 
would just like to know if anybody could help me with something. In 
Chamber of Secrets, after Hermione is petrified and Harry and Ron go 
down to Hagrid's hut under the  invisibility cloak, why does Hagrid 
answer their knock on the door with his cross bow? Who was he 
expecting that he felt he needed to be armed? 
Thanks,
Karen

Becki responds;
Welcome Karen!  I have always had many questions about our big 
friend, but I always thought that he was armed because there was 
the "Monster from the Chamber" loose on the school.  Hagrid was 
there the last time it was let loose on the school so he knows the 
danger of it all.  He know he wasn't the one that opened it and set 
forth the monster, which he has no idea what it is, except that it 
is so horrible that his pet Aragog wont even speak it's name.

That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it, (unless someone else comes 
up with a better story, I am easily persuaded ;D  )
Becki