[HPforGrownups] Hagrid

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 191060

Nerona:
>Why Hagrid was not allowed to use magic after the chamber of secret?
>He was proven innocent, then why not let him get a new wand?

Dave:
I've often wondered about this too, and the timing of Hagrid's 
getting the Care of Magical Creatures post has always made me suspect 
that Dumbledore wanted very much to make amends to him for his unjust 
expulsion, but the MoM bureaucrats refused to reinstate him as a 
student, so the best D could do was offer him a teaching post that 
did not require full magical education.

So why wouldn't the Ministry exonerate Hagrid and reinstate him as a 
student?  My own theory is that they were so bloody-minded that they 
simply refused to admit they made a mistake.  After all, in OoP, 
Umbridge denies the events of PS/SS ever took place, so I imagine the 
Ministry's official line was that CoS never happened either.

But perhaps things change after LV's fall and Kingsley becomes 
Minister of Magic.  In my unwritten fanfic in which I would have the 
Trio return to Hogwarts to do their Seventh Year, I also imagine that 
Hagrid would be finally reinstated, where he left off as a Third 
Year, and Hermione would help him with his homework... :)

Dave