Papa Hagrid

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 164887

>Magpie:
>As to Hagrid seeing Harry as a son...that's a scary thought to me. 
>This is Hagrid who gets an illegal dragon egg, shares his crime with 
>Harry because it's so cool and then 11-year-old Harry has to get him 
>out of trouble by getting rid of the thing when Hagrid just can't 
>let go of it? And lets Harry get detention for doing it for him 
>without admitting his responsibility? (Even GIVES Harry the 
>detention as if he had nothing to do with how he got there.) Who has 
>the kids constantly frustrated at his inability to get certain 
>aspects of his job? Who cries and guilts Harry into things? (Sirius 
>isn't the only one wanting Harry to leave the safety of the school 
>to attend to his needs.) Seems to me Harry's accepted that he's got 
>to be the adult with Hagrid for years now. I suppose this might be 
>the way Hagrid would relate to his own children as well, but then, 
>Hagrid has a rather odd relationship with his brother as well.

Bart:
But that's the whole point: Hagrid does NOT see the world the way everybody else does. Let's take the detention. What would Harry have said, for example, if the detention was to test out a new Quidditch field? From Hagrid's point of view, this is what the detention is; a fun outing disguised as a detention. He just doesn't get it that Harry and Ron might see it differently. And that's the point to Hagrid. He is a good man, but does not see things the same way others do, and does not understand why others would see anything differently. When he does realize this, he overcompensates. 

Bart