Hagrid's Tale (was:Re: What would dissapoint you about HBP? -- Grawp)

[justcarol67]

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Amiable Dorsai wrote:
> <snip>
I think the Grawp business is a lit fuse for a plot bomb in book 6 or
> 7.  I expect, uhm, big things from him.


Carol responds:
*I'm* afraid that it's a set-up to create a politically correct view
of giants, who IMO deserve their bad reputation (as do Trolls).
Hagrid's mother deserted him. Giants kill humans and each other
indiscriminately. They are apparently (with, I fear, the exception of
"little" Grawpy) ineducable. Granted, it's unfair to discriminate
against Hagrid or Madame Maxime as the offspring of a (highly
improbable) mixed species union, but I see nothing wrong with viewing
full-blooded giants objectively as both naturally violent and less
intelligent than human beings. I don't want to see Hermione extending
SPEW to include rights for giants, but that's what I'm afraid will
happen. Granted, wizards should not go out and destroy the giants, but
the giants *do* need to be confined to the mountains they now live in
and not allowed to kill human beings. FWIW, they'll probably kill each
other off in any case. As for Grawp, he may be loyal to "Hagger" and
fond in his brutish way of "Hermy," but he is no more capable of
living free among humans than a Hungarian Horntail.

Carol