Did Hagrid nearly killed Draco? WAS: Re: Snape, Hagrid and Animals/

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 143790

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn at y...> wrote:
>
>  > Leslie
> > 
> > That's because Hagrid *is* an oaf. Hagrid is the very definition of 
> > the word, which means "simple" and "clumsy".  
> 
> This is true. *Oaf* means *simple* and *clumsy*, and that's what 
> Hagrid is. However, *oaf* is also a derogatory appelation. A 
> difference rather like between *afro-American* and *n*****. You can 
> say for instance "Our new football coach is afro-American". Or you can 
> say "Our new football coach is a n*****". Both statements may be true, 
> but one of them is also an insult. 
> a_svirn
>

edited out your use of that word - your example is not even in the
same catagory as oaf.  Oaf is an acceptable word, whereas your example
of an insult is so much more than just an insult.  

both statements of the football coach would not be true.  I don't know
any respectable person who uses that word unless they want to be mean,
hateful and bigoted.  Oaf is not even in the same universe as that word

colebiancardi
(who recognizes that there are insults and then there are INSULTS)