How long have Fich / Hagrid been at Hogwarts?Was: CHAPDISC:HBP19,Elf Tails

[Hagrid]

No: HPFGUIDX 157570

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ibchawz" <ibchawz at ...> wrote:
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> Aussie Wrote:
> 
> Hagrid's dad died when RH was 6. When RH was expelled, did Dumble
> plead his case to Dippet to have living quarters set up for him, or
> did Dumbledore bring RH back only after Dumbledore became
> headmaster?
> 
> ibchawz responds:
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> I thought Hagrid's dad died shortly after Hagrid started attending 
> Hogwarts.  Certainly Hagrid did not start when he was 5 or 6, or did 
> he?  I assumed that Hagrid was around 11 or 12 when his dad died.  

aussie
You are right. (GOF Chap 24) - His dad died in his 2nd year at Hogwarts

"Dumbledore was the one who stuck up for me after Dad went.  Got me 
the gamekeeper job . . . trusts people, he does.  Gives 'em second 
chances ... tha's what sets him apar' from other heads, see.  He'll 
accept anyone at Hogwarts, s'long as they've got the talent. Knows 
people can turn out okay even if their families weren' ... well... all 
tha' respectable.  But some don understand that.  There's some who'd 
always hold it against yeh . . . there's some who'd even pretend they 
just had big bones rather than stand up an' say - I am what I am, an' 
I'm not ashamed.  'Never be ashamed,' my ol' dad used ter 
say, 'there's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth 
botherin' with.' An' he was right.  I've bin an idiot."