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

[Chys Lattes]

No: HPFGUIDX 131400


> <snip>
> 
> 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.
> :-)


LOL! Who was fighting? I was just thinking it was not a matter of 
blood purity but of purity of race, which she seems to touch on often 
as well, so in my opinion it's probably not Hagrid that's the HBP due 
to that, he'd be defined by his species.

Thanks for telling me that, it's interesting to see from where 
variations of words originate. I took it for granted that it was 
something more modern.

Chys