[HPforGrownups] Re: Hagrid and Draco

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 168723

Magpie:
I don't think crying over a pet is a bad thing in an adult either, though I
don't consider Hagrid usually childlike in a very positive sense. It seems
like Harry himself recognizes that he's very manipulative. I guess I just
see a lot of his limitations as conveniently self-serving. He can be rather
clever when he's going after something he wants. 



Sherry:

I do understand to some extent.  I didn't like the Hagrid, who seemed to let
Harry take the blame for his dragon, even participating in the punishment in
the forest.  I always wondered if he ever went to Dumbledore and confessed
that the kids were out of bounds because they were trying to help him get
rid of Norbert.  That's one of the Hagrid flaws I don't like.  His teaching
doesn't bother me, because I think I might have actually learned from him,
if I'd ever taken a class from him.  At least, as long as the class was
about animals!  I would like to have met Buckbeak.

Sherry