Rubeus Hagrid

Rubeus Hagrid (born December 6, c. 1928)http://www.mugglenet.com/jkrcom/birthdayarchive.shtml is a fictional character in the Harry Potter series of books. He is known to all simply as Hagrid. Hagrid is the groundskeeper and Care Of Magical Creatures teacher for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Background and role

It is revealed, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, that Hagrid is of mixed human and giant parentage, his mother having been the giantess Fridwulfa, who left his human father when Hagrid was a baby. Since giants have a reputation for being horribly brutal, and were once allies of Lord Voldemort, Hagrid keeps his parentage secret and allows people to imagine other reasons for his great size. Hagrid becomes romantically involved with Madame Maxime—a half-giantess and headmistress of the French magic school Beauxbatons. Hagrid also has a half-brother, a giant named Grawp.

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Giant - Fridwulfa - Lord Voldemort - Madame Maxime - Beauxbatons - Grawp

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Hagrid was a student at Hogwarts at the same time as Tom Riddle (Lord Voldemort) but was expelled during his third year after he was accused of opening Chamber of Secrets, for which Voldemort was actually responsible.

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Hogwarts - Tom Riddle - Lord Voldemort - Chamber of Secrets - Voldemort

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Following his expulsion, the Ministry of Magic broke Hagrid's oak wand and forbade him from performing magic http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=18. Hagrid keeps the pieces of his wand in an umbrella, and performs small spells from time to time.

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Persuaded by Albus Dumbledore (who at the time was Transfiguration teacher), Headmaster Armando Dippet allowed Hagrid to stay at Hogwarts as groundskeeper.

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Albus Dumbledore - Armando Dippet - Groundskeeper

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Hagrid's love of dangerous magical creatures is central to the plot of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: a hooded person (Professor Quirrell in disguise) gives him a dragon egg to elicit details about Fluffy, the three-headed dog Hagrid has lent to Dumbledore to help guard the philosopher's stone. Hagrid again lets slip, to Harry, Ron and Hermione, about how to get past Fluffy (by playing music), which allows them to pursue the potential thief. The three also assist Hagrid after the dragon egg hatches, by helping to remove the baby dragon Norbert, who is taken to live with other dragons by friends of Charlie Weasley.

Related Topics:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Professor Quirrell - Dragon - Fluffy - Philosopher's stone - Ron - Hermione - Charlie Weasley

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Throughout the books Hagrid is friends with Harry, Ron and Hermione. They frequently discover things about Dumbledore by talking to him as he has a habit of letting slip pieces of information. Dumbledore says that he would trust Hagrid with his life, and frequently asks him to carry out secret tasks. In OotP, he is sent to try to persuade the giants to aid Dumbledore against Voldemort. In book 6, he tells Harry and company about a conversation he overhears between Snape and Dumbledore, where Snape reluctantly agrees to do some difficult task for Dumbledore.

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