[HPforGrownups] Hagrid and spiders (was: Aberforth)

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 175147

> Irene Mikhlin <irene_mikhlin at ...> wrote:
>
>> 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"?!
>
> I was under the impression Hagrid was telling the spiders not to hurt
> the kids not the other way around.
>
> Eggplant Gellert Grindelwald


Shelley:
I just did a quick survey in my own home:
I read the line as Hagrid saying "don't hurt the spiders"-
My darling daughter (dd) read the line as Hagrid saying it to the death 
eaters "don't hurt the spiders"-
And my dh (darling husband) read the line as both- don't hurt the spiders, 
and to the spiders "don't hurt the kids".

Interesting how we read the book each with our own perspectives!