Snape, Hagrid and Animals

[leslie41]

No: HPFGUIDX 143645

With all this talk about Snape and his "deplorable" attitude towards 
Neville's toad, I wonder why more isn't made of Hagrid's complete and 
utter imbecility with regard to animals.

Hagrid to my mind is the dangerous teacher at Hogwarts.  Just because 
he's too dumb to know better is not really an excuse.  He is the last 
person who should be teaching "care of magical creatures".

He cares for his pets more than he does people, or at least his reason 
is obscured by his affection for them, and several times students are 
nearly killed because of it.  Harry and Ron barely escape from the 
killer spiders, and Hagrid actually encouraged them to go into the 
forbidden forest in that case.

I'd much rather have Snape hovering over my child than Hagrid, at 
least if I wanted my kid back at the end of term. It's no wonder in 
HPB the trio avoid his class, which is by that point optional.