[HPforGrownups] Re: The Virtues of Hagrid

[Meliss9900 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 175444

In a message dated 8/14/2007 11:48:09 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
doddiemoemoe at yahoo.com writes:

<<Doddie now:

Hagrid lied--how else can you explain  Hagrids wand-like umbrella? >>
 
Explaining the wand-like umbrella is simple.  Hagrid stuck the 2  pieces back 
together (maybe binding them together with Unicorn hair which we  know from 
canon is "dead useful" . . but that's just speculation) and put  them in there. 
  
 
True Ron's broken wand didn't respond well to spell-o-tape but then Ron was  
at a disadvantage. His wand in COS was a hand me down and hadn't actually  
chosen him.  Whereas based on the Ollivander conversation in  SS/PS Hagrid's had 
chosen Hagrid. That all might have made  all the difference between the 2 
incidents. And Hagrid's wand did misfire  at least 2 times. The pig's tail for 
Dudley (he'd meant to  transfigure him into a pig . not just a tail) and on the 
sidecar in  DH.

<<How else can you explain the "snapped wand" at DD's  funeral--yet DD 
was buried with the elder wand???>>
 
Not sure what snapped wand you are referring to but I just reread Chapter  30 
"The White Tomb"  and Dumbledore's wand (the Elder wand) was  NOT snapped at 
his funeral. . there is no mention of his wand at all.
 
The only mention made anywhere in HBP to a snapped wand is the "Ode to  Odo" 
that Hagrid and Slughorn are drunkenly singing after Aragog's  burial. 
(Chapter 22 After The Burial)
 
And Odo the hero, they bore him back home
To the place he'd known as a lad,
They laid him to rest with his hat inside out 
And his wand snapped in two, which was sad" 
 
I'm sorry but claiming a character lied to prove a point is an  easy out. 
Anyone can claim anything about any character and simply say  "they lied."
 
 
Melissa. 
 
 



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