[HPforGrownups] Innocent Alby? (was Re: Why should Harry be expected to listen...)

[Alina]

No: HPFGUIDX 122764

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> Unfortunately, year two turns out to be a disaster.  The pressure from
> Voldemort and his followers is increasing.  Hagrid's confidence is
> shattered early in his teaching career by the incident with Buckbeak,
> and his status is shown to be fragile when he is clapped into Azkaban,
> professor or no.  Harry continues to refuse trust, even when DD
> himself offers him an opening.  And the Weasleys are not available
> over the summer to provide a source of support for Harry at year's
> end.  It is becoming clear that Harry needs a source of support who is
> more confident and, sadly, more clever than Hagrid, and one who does
> not have the existing emotional/familial commitments that hamper the
> Weasleys.
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Hagrid became a teacher in year three, not year two. Your argument
still works, just the timeline is off.

Alina.