[ SECRET POST #6813 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6813 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's simple.

It's a book for children written by a not particularly good author.

Kids books tend to put the focus on the child cast because that's who the kids reading it are supposed to sympathise with. The kids are the heroes, they do heroic things and, generally, adults are incompetent except for when they're not when the plot demands it. It's why the whole-ass story ends up being resolved by 3 eleven year olds instead of the background cast of blisteringly powerful adult teachers who are literally in the same building.

While it would have been nice to have the full repercussions of Hagrid's involvement play out, you have to remember... the kids don't care and nor did the author, because it's not relevant to the overall simple story the book was trying to tell.

If she was a better author she might have mentioned something about Hagrid being the one to punish them as a sort of punishment for him too, or maybe him having gone to Dumbledore to be like "they were trying to help me, it's my fault, let me help them out", but it doesn't really matter. Pretend that happened off-page if you want.

It's a book for kids. The protagonists getting an unjust punishment to get the plot ball rolling with all the nonsense regarding the unicorn and whatever is pretty standard. The adults being incompetent or oblivious is also pretty standard. It's not that deep.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, this.

[(Anonymous)]

"It's a book for children"

Exactly this.

[(Anonymous)]

Definitely. Also Harry was raised by shitty people, so taking the blame for this isn't even something that would be abnormal to him. Like you said, it's typical in children's books to have kids solving problems that adults should handle. That is absolutely a staple of children's literature. There are tons of books where kids solve mysteries in a way that would never happen IRL, but no kid wants to read a book where rational competent adults step in and take care of everything, that would be boring.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, unjust detention (or other punishment) for trying to do something technically wrong but for good reasons is a school story classic.