[HPforGrownups] Hagrid and Draco WAS: On Moral Compasses (was:Re: Snape as Neville's teacher...)

[dracojadon at yahoo.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 168647

>> Jadon:
> Hagrid treats Draco badly just as Snape treats Harry/
>> Neville badly.
> <SNIP of the whole post>
>
>
> Alla:
>
> I snipped your whole post, because I only would like to ask for
> examples of Hagrid treating Draco **just as badly** as Snape treats
> Harry and Neville.
<snip>

Jadon:
I didn't say *as badly* - but he shows a general lack of respect for  
Draco. A pre-PoA example is the detention in the Forest in PS  
("Harry, you go with Fang an' this idiot"). Draco provokes him by  
whining - specifically the sort of thing likely to annoy Hagrid - but  
Neville provokes Snape through incompetence and Harry by 'existing',  
to reverse the situation in chapter 28 of OotP.
You'd think Hagrid might stick up for Draco like he sticks up for  
Snape (if just professionally), but he lets HRH abuse him in his  
presence and occasionally joins in:

"Well, I don' blame yeh fer tryin' ter curse him, Ron," said Hagrid
loudly over the thuds of more slugs hitting the basin. "Bu' maybe it
was a good thing yer wand backfired. 'Spect Lucius Malfoy
would've come marchin' up ter school if yeh'd cursed his son. Least
yer not in trouble."
--CoS

Here Hagrid doesn't care at all what happens to Draco and is  
dismissive of Lucius Malfoy - the only thing that matter's is that  
Ron's not in trouble.

> Alla:
> Draco comes to that famous lesson
> determined not to listen to that big oaf

Jadon:
Draco makes himself difficult to defend because he goes out of his  
way to annoy people. But might not the Harry-filter have something to  
do with it? So that when Hagrid is mean to a Slytherin Harry  
dislikes, Harry sides with Hagrid's reasons for it - when Snape is  
mean to a Gryffindor, Harry sticks up for them because they're his  
friends and he hates Snape?