How important is Hagrid?

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 186729

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Jacob Owen <hagrid_hut at ...> wrote:


> I agree with you in general, with one caveat: when you say both 
> "civilization" and "human" there is yet another division between 
> muggle and wizard, and Hagrid had a muggle father. Hagrid is the 
> only character I can think of besides Madame Maxine that has his 
> roots in muggles, wizards, and beasts.


zanooda:

I wonder why you would think that Hagrid's father was a Muggle. He was a wizard, and he was called so in the book. I'm not at home at the moment, so I can't give you the exact quote right now, but it was in GoF, "Rita Skeeter's Scoop" chapter, at the very end, where Hagrid shows his dad's picture to the Trio. But even without this quote it always seemed obvious to me that Hagrid's dad was a wizard. Also, I wouldn't qualify giants as "beasts", if that's what you meant :-).