[HPforGrownups] Minor Questions

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 182102

> Laura
> Why did Hagrid consider it so impossible that Lily and James would
> have died in a car crash?  Wizards did ride in cars, e.g., various
> rides to King's Cross.  Cars did crash (e.g., into Whomping
> Willows).  Wizards did get hurt in car crashes, e.g., Harry in the
> Whomping Willow crash.  I realize that Hagrid's astonishment might
> simply be that he was insulted that the Dursley's told Harry
> something that was not only not true, but which was common, rather
> than special and important.

Shelley:
It has nothing to do with a car crash at all! Why would Hagrid get so upset? 
Why, because Harry was told a lie, plain and simple. It mattered not what 
manner of MUGGLE death the Dursleys' had concocted for that lie- gunshot, or 
stab wounds-it still would have been a lie. The WIZARDS Lily an James died a 
WIZARDING death, and that's the part that Hagrid is so upset over. That 
Harry was denied the chance of knowing who he was (a wizard), and who his 
parents were (wizards), and the truth about how they really died (a 
wizarding curse).