CHAPDISC: 34, The Forest Again

[Jerri&Dan Chase]

No: HPFGUIDX 185065

> 15.  Please share any other questions or thoughts that come to mind
> about this chapter.
>
> Sherry


Thanks for the summary and questions.  I don't really feel I have much to 
add to the major discussion, but wanted to describe the one point in this 
chapter that distracted me and pulled me out of the moment, on first 
reading.  And that was Hagrid, alive and tied to a tree.

I had thought him dead back in the 7 Potters chapter, when he fell to earth, 
but he wasn't.

I thought him dead again, when the spiders carried him off.

Here he is a prisoner in Lord V's camp.

WHY!?

I know, that JKR wanted Hagrid alive and present to carry Harry's "dead" 
body out of the forest.  But why didn't the spiders kill him?  And, if they 
didn't, why didn't the death eaters?  He was "Dumbledore's Man through and 
through".  He was a half breed, not full blooded wizard.  I know why JKR 
didn't have him killed, but why did the spiders and death eaters and Lord V?

And, I don't know why JKR would have produced the prisoner Hagrid at this 
point, as we reach the climax of the chapter?  It proved a distraction to 
this reader and to Harry.  (And, she couldn't get me again.  When a death 
eater, with a wave of a wand, "silenced" Hagrid, I didn't think he was dead 
this time!)

And, I didn't want Hagrid to die, but all his near death experiences just 
didn't work for me in the context of this book.

Jerri