[HPforGrownups] Re: What is in the box - Prank and SHIPS ( surprising and otherwise) WAS Surp

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 177126

From: rtbthw_mom <dossett at lds.net>
>Never really got on the SHIPs, just decided to see where they went,
>but my 10-year-old daughter tonight had an interesting observation: 
>her comment was that thinking about Hagrid's father marrying a
>giantess was "really gross!"  We agreed that Madame Maxim's parent's
>situation was the same!

Bart:
I kind of wondered about the, well, physical problems involved. I guess JKR is a Freudian. Perhaps some sort of transfiguration spell?

One must assume that Hagrid's mother was, for her race, a genius. Either that or Hagrid's parents got VERY drunk one night. There are any number of ways a wizard could get involved with giants; scholarly studies, being some sort of official dealing with interaction between wizards and giants, etc. There were numerous hints that Hagrid was smarter than he appeared on the surface; he certainly was depicted on not only having an ecyclopedic knowledge of magical creatures, but also an ability to work with them (such as the implied development of the blast ended skrewts, which, to all appearances, WERE Ministry sanctioned, as they were used in the tri-Wizard torunament). 

It's certainly clear that children of giant parents aren't necessarily lower in intelligence; in general, you have to have SOME intelligence to be a headmistress of a major school.

Bart