[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape and Neville

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 113524

Tonks said:

>Ah.. now what have you got against good ol' Hagrid? He is a
>sweetheart.. good natured .. not the sharpest.. but hearts in the
>right place.  What could anyone have against our buddy Hagrid? ??

Not only is Hagrid one of my favorite characters, but I'm not so sure about 
the sharpness, either.  He may not be a rocket scientist, and it's clear he 
didn't have the advantages of an upper-class background (more like Stan the 
bus driver than like Harry, let alone Hermione or Malfoy).  However, I can 
think of two occasions when he has seen through the fog and gotten things 
right when others did not:  once when discussing Voldemort and he dismissed 
the claims that Voldemort was dead as "codswallop" and said that Voldemort 
was not human enough to die, and once when, despite the body of evidence to 
the contrary, he told the trio that "Snape wouldn't hurt a student" and was 
not trying to kill Harry or steal the Stone.  And those are just what come 
to my mind out of PS/SS; I'm sure there were others.


Janet Anderson

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