The spiders (Re: The Joke's on Me)

[hickengruendler]

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> 
> Doddie here:
> 
> I actually thought that when the acromantulas made it to the castle 
> and Hagrid yelled, "No, don't hurt 'em"..that he was actually 
> telling the spiders not to hurt the students.. rather than Hagrid 
> yelling at folks not to hurt the spiders. 
> 
> LOL
> 
> as if JKR hadn't pounded us over our heads with Hagrid's love of 
> dangerous creatures in ALL the books.
> 
> I still blush and giggle at my mistake each time I read about the 
> acromantulas carrying Hagrid off..
> 
> Doddie
>

Hickengruendler:

That scene came pretty close to made me hate Hagrid completely. At 
least it's ambigous enough, that I can still pretend, he was caring 
for the students here, but sadly I *fear* you are right and he told 
them not to hurt the spiders. Let's just say that I think it was a 
very wise decision from JKR not to have the spiders kill anyone (at 
least on-page), because it would IMO have been the destruction of 
Hagrid as a character.

By the way, were Aragog's children working for the Death Eaters, or 
were they there on their own accord, because the walls of the castle 
had broken down? At first I thought they were with Voldie, but during 
rereading I realised, that the Death Eaters ran away from them as 
well. So maybe they just came up there because of the multitude of 
flesh?