[HPforGrownups] Re: CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 8: Flight of the Fat Lady

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 189627

  Pippin:
> It would help if  Hagrid were open to tactful advice. In his case, I'm afraid it would be like making subtle suggestions to a hurricane. I do agree that the staff is Dumbledore's responsibility, and I think under normal circumstances a requisition for six hippogriffs would have raised some eyebrows if not actual alarm. But DD and the rest of the staff had reason to be pre-occupied considering Sirius's escape and ministry's plans to defend the school with dementors.

     Actually, Hagrid was very close to competent with the hippogriff 
lesson. Essentially, it was a student and a powerful parent who had it 
out for him that did him in and caused him to lose his confidence. I 
never could figure out how Draco was supposed to have gotten away with 
his malingering.

     Bart