[HPforGrownups] He hates Hagrid?

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 143435

Miles wrote:

> Miles:
> Is there anything in canon that supports this ?
> Hagrid as a keeper of any secret is a disaster - especially in PS/SS. He ist
> tricked not only by Quirrel/Voldemort, but as well by Harry and his friends.
> I do not say that Hagrid is not trustworthy in total  - but he has
> weaknesses which are quite easy to identify.
> For sure, Hagrid blabs not every secret he knows about - but the chance is
> always good enough. Would Dumbledore tell Hagrid secrets about Snape, that
> would cost his life when Voldemort would know about it? Would he tell
> Hagrid, whereas he doesn't tell any other member of the Order (we learn it
> at the end of HBP - it was not only Harry, who never learnt the secret of
> Dumbledores trust in Snape)?
> 
> Miles

KJ writes:

    That is what I find so interesting about Hagrid. Dumbledore trusted 
Hagrid to go get Baby Harry. Hagrid might even have had the care of 
Harry for those "missing hours". Dumbledore trusted Hagrid to pick up 
the stone, which he apparently knew Voldemort would be trying to steal. 
In HBP, Hagrid makes it quite clear that he knew about Snape spying for 
Dumbledore, which presumably should have been kept quiet.
    Hagrid went to school with Voldemort and yet Harry has never asked 
him about what he remembers of him. Hagrid also knew James, Sirius, 
Peter, Remus and Snape as children. Harry has never thought to ask about 
what he knows. Hagrid would have known all about the prank. Hagrid was 
there when Snape returned to spy for Dumbledore. I'm willing to bet that 
he knows something about that as well.
    Hagrid does not lie well, as we saw, when he told Harry that Snape 
did not hate him. That lie made it clear that Hagrid knew all about 
Snape's feelings for Harry.
    For a character who is made to look naive, and gullible, Hagrid can 
really keep his mouth shut most of the time. I'm wondering if JKR will 
use him to explain a great deal of the back story in book 7.
KJ