CHAPTER DISCUSSION: PS/SS 4, The Keeper of the Keys

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 187846

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:

3. In the beginning of this chapter Hagrid introduces himself as Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts. At the end of the chapter he tells Harry that Dumbledore let him stay in Hogwarts as **gamekeeper**.  Is it a typo? Is it supposed to be **gatekeeper**?
> If it is not a typo, could somebody explain to me how *keeper of the keys and grounds* is the same thing as *gamekeeper*? Thanks.

Geoff:
I think that both descriptions are admissible. As Melissa has pointed 
out, as the "Keeper of the Keys", Hagrid is certainly a gatekeeper.

But I think that, as the books unfold, we see his work as being more 
to do with the grounds and the Hogwarts environment, their maintenance 
and his dealings with the flora and fauna. This, to me, puts his work more 
firmly in the direction of being a gamekeeper.