[HPforGrownups] Re: Slytherin house

[Eric Oppen]

No: HPFGUIDX 191637

Quoting kamion53 <kersberg at chello.nl>:

>
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, June Ewing <doctorwhofan02 at ...> wrote:
>>
>> > Jenn:
>> > There's not a witch nor wizard that didn't go bad that came out of
>> Slytherin (Hagrid SORCERER'S STONE, US).  The worst was Tom Riddle and
>
>
> I think Hagrid is not only quite limited in the brain department,   
> but also extremely biased against Slytherin, because a reveiled in   
> CoS, he was directly targetted by the manipulations of a Slytherin   
> in such way that he was connected to the death of Moaning Myrtle and  
>  unjustly expelled.

At the same time, I've got to say that keeping bloody ARAGOG in the  
school was just begging for something bad to happen.  I'm not saying  
he should have been expelled for that, but he should have been  
punished fairly severely.

And didn't anybody _examine_ the corpse?  Hell's bells, that was SOP  
in ancient times!



>
> What Hagrid tells Harry is the opionion of a simpleton who managed   
> to keep a grudge for 50 years.

Victims of injustice tend to do that.  I don't blame Hagrid for hating  
Tom Riddle, and his extending his dislike to all of Slytherin strikes  
me as a case of his simplemindedness.


>
> JKR was rather fond of Hagrid, but I think Draco was quite right   
> abot him from the start.
> and he is in close competition with Threlawney for been nominated   
> the worst teacher of Hogwarts.

What??? You left Dolores Umbridge out of the competition?  How could  
you?  Or the Carrows, or Quirrel...frankly, the quality of the faculty  
at that school does not impress me in general.

And Hagrid might do just fine if _someone would take the time to teach  
him HOW to teach!_  Instead, he's thrown in at the deep end and left  
to his own devices, with a known troublemaker and all around jacka$$  
in his class...this is a recipe for disaster; Malfoy would probably  
have found a way to injure himself with flobberworms if he could blame  
it on Hagrid.

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