[HPforGrownups] Hagrid

[heather the buzzard]

No: HPFGUIDX 129816

flyingmonkeypurple wrote:

>Ok does anyone think that it is really weird that Hagrid is half 
>giant? It's kind of imposible to be half-giant. Not to get 
>inappropriate or anything but She huge and it's not posible. Maybe 
>because she was writing this for kids they would not catch this part. 
>Or Unless their is some other way to have a baby when your a witch. I 
>just have a problem with this it's weird
>

Heehee... I agree it's weird.  But apparently it's not impossible!

Hagrid's mother was a giantess (not a witch BTW, his father was a 
wizard).  Perhaps the females are slightly smaller than the males? 

Hmm.   Grawp was considered a 'runt' in his tribe.  Perhaps their mum 
was small as giants go?

Well, Hagrid's dad seemed to adore her, so I'm sure he found a way to 
make it work.  Perhaps an engorgement spell was all that was necessary?  
And at any rate, she seemed less than impressed with the whole deal in 
the end, and ran off. 

So not impossible, but not all that common either.

As for the whole no-one-knew-he-was-a-half-giant thing, I hardly think 
that a giantess actually living with a local wizard and bearing his 
child would go unnoticed.  It happened a long time ago, and was probably 
not freely talked about, so it's not surprising that none of the KIDS 
would know.  But I suspect the elder folk did.

heather the buzzard