Who do people think HBP Is?/ Hagrid a Halfling.

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 131349

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Chys Lattes" 
<maliksthong at y...> wrote:
> Chys:
> 
> I used the word halfling as I know it: To describe a child born of 
> two different species, (Human and Giant fits this in my opinion.) 
So 
> if you're confused by another definition of the word, I'm sorry,  I 
> suppose I should have researched it better, I didn't think that it 
> would be so confusing. I was looking for the word 'half-breed' but 
> had forgotten if that was what was used in the book or not. 

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Geoff:
I just got the following information from Wikkipedia (via Google):

"Originally, 'Halflin' was an old Scottish word, pre-dating The 
Hobbit and Dungeons & Dragons. It meant an awkward rustic teenager, 
who is neither man nor boy, and so half of both. Another word for 
halflin is hobbledehoy.

Some fantasy stories use halfling to describe a person born of a 
human parent and a parent of another race, often a human female and 
an elf. Terry Brooks describes characters such as Shea Ohmsford from 
his Shannara series as a halfling of elf-human parentage."

Note that the meaning which you use is a modern post-Tolkien 
invention.

So you could place Hagrid in that context but in the original Scots 
meaning or Tolkien''s for that matter, I think he would not fit the 
definition. However, its not worth fighting over.
:-)