[HPforGrownups] Re: Aberforth

[Irene Mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 174941

va32h:

I adamantly disagree that Hagrid's survival was a matter of JKR not 
having the "guts" to kill him. 

Irene:

Of course  you are right, I never meant in the sense that she wanted to, but got cold feet or anything like that. She has never planned to kill him.

I understand why readers would dislike  Hagrid, but I put him in the 
category of James and Sirius as "characters JKR intends us to like, 
even though she hasn't given us any particularly good reasons to do 
so." 

Exactly. :-) But I was just so incredibly annoyed by the spiders moment. Here they are, killing children, and all Hagrid cares about is "don't hurt them"?! Damn him, does he have to stay such a huge baby all his life?


Irene