Hagrid is actually very cruel to animals. He's the epitomy (sp?) of the Bad Animalowner. You know the kind; the Hoarder, the Collector, the Idot Who Thinks Their Dogs Are Human And So Doesn't Train Them Properly So When A Three-year-old Tries To Pet It The Pet Tries To Establish Rank In The Only Way It Knows How (By 'Gently Nipping The Child In The Neck' Which Translates As 'Dead Child') They Will Blubber 'It's Perfectly Harmless' And 'It Didn't Mean It' When The Dog Has To Be Put Down.
I hate Hagrid. Okay, I hate just about every character in Rowlind Land. But I hate Hagrid because he is stupid and because he is exactly the kind of person who should never, ever be allowed to have pets.
If I didn't think that Rowling simply doesn't have the brains or sophistication to actually read Literature, I'd suspect that she'd stolen Hagrid from Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men'; he's a near copy of Lennie Small.
It has been suggested (I think by Swythyv, but I'm not sure) that the 'strays' that Dumbledore picks up during his life (Lupin, Hagrid, Snape) are an reconstruction of his familylife. Lupin has a 'hidden disease' like Ariana and he, like Ariana, is hidden away during his 'attacks'. Hagrid is rather stupid and has a pet obsession and Double D is convinced (or tries to convince himself) that Aberforth was rather dim ("I don't know if he could read") with an obsession for goats (the real Aberforth, in contrast with the Aberforth in Double D's head, is rather intelligent, caring and practical). Snape, of course, is (in DD's head) DD's feared mirror image. DD tried to explain his murdering of his sister on his own ambition and so, when he became Headmaster (but even when he was a teacher, I suspect), very subtly undermined Slytherin House, which is, after all, the House of Ambition. Far be it for DD to look *inside himself* for the fault. Far better to attack the 'source of all evil' *outside himself*. Children very quickly catch on which way the wind is blowing. The other Houses would very quickly be convinced of Slytherin's 'inherent evil' and (in the case of Gryffindor) of their own supposed 'inherent good'. No wonder that Voldemort found Slytherin such fertile recruiting ground.
And so DD was relentless towards Snape who, with his brilliance, seemed most like himself (in DD head of course. The two characters couldn't be more different if you'd tried), subjected Lupin to a kind of half-life (allowing him into school so he could be a wizard, yet after graduation leaving the boy to fetch for himself, which he can't, yet also cutting him off from whatever werewolf culture there is. Is there such a thing as werewolf culture? Do they help eachother? Do they learn tricks to survive in the WW? )
As for Hagrid; DD keeps the petloving idiot around, rather like a pet himself. Countless of Hagrid-pets must've suffered from his bumbling 'loving', but then DD makes him a teacher! The result is rather predictable: like Steinbeck's Lennie, he innocently (or not so innocently - Hagrid is not above spouting his Master's prejudices about Slytherins) harms humans. Draco nearly gets killed in his very first lesson (and don't tell me 'it's just a scratch'; it is described as 'blood everywhere' and the kid had to spend serious time in the infirmary)
Hermione is so lucky that Hagrid never wanted to pet her hair...
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Date: 2008-02-05 10:50 am (UTC)I hate Hagrid. Okay, I hate just about every character in Rowlind Land. But I hate Hagrid because he is stupid and because he is exactly the kind of person who should never, ever be allowed to have pets.
If I didn't think that Rowling simply doesn't have the brains or sophistication to actually read Literature, I'd suspect that she'd stolen Hagrid from Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men'; he's a near copy of Lennie Small.
It has been suggested (I think by Swythyv, but I'm not sure) that the 'strays' that Dumbledore picks up during his life (Lupin, Hagrid, Snape) are an reconstruction of his familylife. Lupin has a 'hidden disease' like Ariana and he, like Ariana, is hidden away during his 'attacks'. Hagrid is rather stupid and has a pet obsession and Double D is convinced (or tries to convince himself) that Aberforth was rather dim ("I don't know if he could read") with an obsession for goats (the real Aberforth, in contrast with the Aberforth in Double D's head, is rather intelligent, caring and practical).
Snape, of course, is (in DD's head) DD's feared mirror image. DD tried to explain his murdering of his sister on his own ambition and so, when he became Headmaster (but even when he was a teacher, I suspect), very subtly undermined Slytherin House, which is, after all, the House of Ambition. Far be it for DD to look *inside himself* for the fault. Far better to attack the 'source of all evil' *outside himself*.
Children very quickly catch on which way the wind is blowing. The other Houses would very quickly be convinced of Slytherin's 'inherent evil' and (in the case of Gryffindor) of their own supposed 'inherent good'.
No wonder that Voldemort found Slytherin such fertile recruiting ground.
And so DD was relentless towards Snape who, with his brilliance, seemed most like himself (in DD head of course. The two characters couldn't be more different if you'd tried), subjected Lupin to a kind of half-life (allowing him into school so he could be a wizard, yet after graduation leaving the boy to fetch for himself, which he can't, yet also cutting him off from whatever werewolf culture there is. Is there such a thing as werewolf culture? Do they help eachother? Do they learn tricks to survive in the WW? )
As for Hagrid; DD keeps the petloving idiot around, rather like a pet himself. Countless of Hagrid-pets must've suffered from his bumbling 'loving', but then DD makes him a teacher! The result is rather predictable: like Steinbeck's Lennie, he innocently (or not so innocently - Hagrid is not above spouting his Master's prejudices about Slytherins) harms humans. Draco nearly gets killed in his very first lesson (and don't tell me 'it's just a scratch'; it is described as 'blood everywhere' and the kid had to spend serious time in the infirmary)
Hermione is so lucky that Hagrid never wanted to pet her hair...
Where a neckshot when you need one?