He hates Hagrid?

[Miles]

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Kathryn Jones:
>     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.

Miles:
Hagrid is a good bodyguard, either resistant to physical and magical
attacks. Therefore Hagrid is a valuable member of the order. And the
stone... he blabbed what he did...

Kathryn Jones:
> In HBP, Hagrid makes it quite clear that he knew about Snape spying
> for
> Dumbledore, which presumably should have been kept quiet.

Miles:
Not really. Snape was a known double agent - both sides know, the question
is his real loyalty. No secret to keep by Hagrid.

Kathryn Jones:
>     Hagrid went to school with Voldemort and yet Harry has never asked
> him about what he remembers of him.

Miles:
Ahm, yes, and... ? Harry did not ask, so we do not know what Hagrid could
tell. I agree, he will have his own point of view concerning Tom Riddle.
Harry is a closed boy, there are many people he doesn't talk to, but does
that indicate, that all those people  not interviewed keep their mouths
shut?

Kathryn Jones:
> 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.

Miles:
See above. And - we do not know about Hagrid knowing the marauders closer
than other student since Hagrid was expelled, don't we?

Kathryn Jones:
>     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.

Miles:
Did he really lie? Or could he just not imagine that Snape would hate Harry
because he had good reason to hate James? Did he really know about Sirius
and James bullying Snape? No, I do not see a lying Hagrid, I see a
not-knowing Hagrid.
Hagrid *is* somehow simple-minded, not really stupid, but.... slow. And he
is not naive, but very warm-hearted and compassionate - maybe this is, what
binds him to Dumbledore and vice-versa - they both think the best of
everyone. And Hagrid of any animal as well.

Miles, who really likes Hagrid ;)