Snape and Neville

[huntergreen_3]

No: HPFGUIDX 113583

Tonks:
>>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? ??<<

HunterGreen:
He just gets on my nerves is all. He's so exuberant about his 
emotions, almost childlike, and I find the oxymoron of the "tall 
scary-looking guy with a heart of gold" sort of tiresome. Sometimes I 
just wish he'd get a little dignity, like in the case of the 
hippograff attacking Malfoy in PoA, afterwards he falls apart and 
wants to quit then spends the rest of the year teaching about 
flobberworms. I was excited at first when he was announced as the 
COMC teacher, because it seemed so suited for him, but he squandered 
it for the most part (wasting most of his classes in the third book 
on flobberworms, and then the skewerts in GoF which were most likely 
illegal and he therefore shouldn't have been teaching to a class). 

Also, I'll echo what Becki said about the dragon egg in PS/SS, and 
what Madga said about the Grawp storyline in OotP (honestly, that was 
putting Harry and Hermione in a *horrible* position, he should have 
never involved them in it). I'll also add telling Ron and Harry to 
follow the spiders in CoS, which nearly got them killed. Perhaps they 
got some information out of it, but that wasn't worth their lives.

Hagrid only annoys me to *read*, in the medium-that-must-not-be-
named, I actually enjoy his character, and if he were a real person, 
I'd probably like him. (I feel the opposite about Sirius, he's my 
favorite character, but I'm sure I wouldn't like him if he were a 
real person...unless I was Harry that is).