Minor Questions

[l.anne120]

No: HPFGUIDX 182105

> > 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).


I also think Hagrid was offended because the Potter's dying in a car
crash minimized the significance of their deaths.  After all, it was
their deaths that led (indirectly) to the downfall of LV.  The
Dursley's lie made it seem as if all that the WW had suffered was not
important.  Harry is famous, but his parents are famous too, not just
for being his parents but for being a part of the undoing of LV.

Lori