How important is Hagrid?

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 186772

Jacob Owen <hagrid_hut@> wrote:

> <snip> 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.
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zanooda responded:
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> 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 :-).
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Carol adds:

I agree. Muggles who see Giants are generally killed by them since they have no defense against them and know nothing about their ways. At best, they'd have their memory modified if they encountered one. They don't even believe in Giants, and certainly wouldn't marry one.
And I doubt that Hagrid would hold Muggles in such contempt if his much-loved father were one. 

Carol, willing to bet that Madame Maxime's parents were also a Wizard and a Giantess (no Muggles involved and the prospect of a Giant marrying a Witch being too horrible to contemplate)